James Squire IPA

[bitingmidge]

The dear wife and I are going to spend the month of October in the UK. We're going to rent a narrow canal boat for a week or so and travel from pub to pub at a leisurely 6kph. I'm going try as many local beers as I can get my grubby hands on.

It'll be October so a not so cold beer will the thing.

For a bloke from where you are from, it won't be cold. Probably not even zero mostly.

Good news about the house being occupied in May, so why can't you extend the insurance?

We'd better start looking soon if we are going to follow the Grunts into owner builder territory eh?

Cheers,

P

[Dog]

It's a little tricky to get insurance for Strawbale houses and owner builders can only get 2 years max on building insurance.

The boats are a centrally heated.

Now I just have to work out which canal to go on. There are 2000ks of canals through England, Wales and Scotland. Might stay south as it won't be quite as cold.

[bitingmidge]

Don't be a wimp! It's worth checking out the Falkirk Wheel even if you don't get to Scotland by boat.

On the other hand, the Avon is a stupendously pretty place too. If you want to get really inspired, find a book called "the Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow" by AJ McKinnon. He's an Aussie teacher of English at Geelong Grammar, who floated from his then place of employment in the midlands down the pommy canals and eventually across the channel, then France to the Black Sea... but he was in a Mirror dinghy (10ft with oars and a sail). A terrific yarn.

Most pommy narrowboats have wood fires too.

Hope our heater is back in by the time we get back!

Cheers,

P

[Shy Ted]

If you want to get really inspired, find a book called "the Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow" by AJ McKinnon.

That was one of my Xmas presents...and what an excellent book it is. Well worth seeking out for a good read.