Hi, Your comments are always most welcome
Hi Sue and Vic,
well you are back to where the girls and I saw you in the spring this year.... we are back in that area on the 27th but not able to drop in - the eldest alien has a paper ropund to be doiong so we have to be back in Weymouth by 5pm....Loong day for us.... so we will wait until you reach the western half of the K&A for our winter visit I think.
BTW the 'map of where we are' needs updating - it is 4 days old now 
Keep well all three of you.
Ron,
Thanks for that.. It is always very difficult with orange.net. They tend to cache me pages, ie give me old pages they have stored on their server. I have now updated the 'Where we are now' page, it should be updated, but I can't see that and probably won't until the morning. Orange.net are refusing to give me a new page!! A Webmistresses nightmare!!
Yes I remember the Tesco bag full of goodies!!.. Pity eldest has other commitments.. paper round comes first! An important part of 'growing up'.. be nice to catch up with all your news Ron on the K&A 
Sue,
I have been a lurking reader to your excellent web pages - please keep up the diary, it is a web page of choice to come to get a 'fix' when stuck in my office and dreaming of next being on the cut.
It is particularly nice when I can identify you location as a place I've been myself (in this instance a long weekend out of Stockton top in February this year to celebrate our wedding anniversary - it was the first time we had been on our shared ownerships boat on our own. Plus the canal iced over over night so it was all a new experience for us)
Take care and keep up the postings,
Neville
Thought of you when I saw this BBC News:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/engla...ire/
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So many great photos on your blog. I agree with Neville, above, it is a pleasure to see places that I am familiar with and have also travelled along those parts of the canal system.
thanks jane
Well i am so glad someone stayed dry. Sadly i had to meet friends for lunch at Stoke Breune thursday so on with the divers suit and push on. Totaly not my way but it had to be done. Be safe c u when we cross again.
LES
Great to hear that Lucy is now putting her injured leg down to the ground. I hope the next stage of her recovery goes well! It must be a relief.
Neville,
Well this is a really lovely part of the country, I do like it a lot on the Oxford canal. If the family lived closer I think I would stay around here for the winter.. Ooooo ice.. brrrrrrr. I hope we don't have too many 'frozen in' days this winter.. its not being frozen in that bothers me, it's the boats going past crashing all the ice into the side of No Problem! It makes such an awful noise!! 
Glad you are enjoying the blog, and thankyou for your compliments too
Jane,
Yes I know exactly where they dug that up!.. I sometimes wonder what is at the bottom of these rivers you know.. I know canals get drained from time to time during maintenance, but rivers don't.. still, I shouldn't harp too long on thinking about that me thinks!
Les,
Oh poor you!!.. still I expect lunch today made up for the soaking yesterday!.. I wonder if you had tomato soup for lunch?
Bones,
Yes a huge relief. I didn't think she would ever use that leg again. Trouble is there is no muscle there to support her leg, well there must be some.. but at least now I can build that muscle to take the weight of her at a faster speed.. here's hoping.
