Hail to the Hive!Todays selection were all taken along the same 100m of canal on the Leicester Line of the Grand Union Canal, a mere 8 miles from the city centre.It’s a location we have stayed at many times as its nice and quiet, relatively pretty and clpose to canal facilities ( such as fresh water and waste disposal) and also shops near by. The perfect pit stop.

Hail to the Hive!There’s something. Special about spring. I guess thats why there are so many religious and cultural connotations to it. Nature is awakening and the days are getting longer. The sun is at least attempting to put a shift in and it just has an all round pleasant vibe.

Hail to the Hive!Spring has sprung, as they say, and with it are these occasional glorious days, a tease, a sneak peak, a promise of what summer may yet give us in the near future. Or so I hope as last year was a complete washout with rain and and of course MORE RAIN!

Hail to the Hive!The Canal is often referred to as “The Cut” as it was literally cut into the landscape by hand , well many thousands of hands actually carrying shovels and picks. If you have watched “Peaky Blinders’ you will have heard them refer the “the Cut’ when talking of where to dispose of bodies and such like.

Hail to the Hive!I find it incredible how a place you may have visited dozens of times befdore can be transformed so wildly by the weather on any given day. Tae the Watford flight of locks for instance. We have been up and down this set of locks many times on rainy and sunny days, in Winter, spring, summer & fall and it has felt so different on all of these occasions as most places do due to the weather conditions. But on this winter early evening, shortly before sunset it was the sky that caught my eye. It just filled the canvas and added a real magical quality to an already very cool place.

Hail to the Hive!Yessss, we are back off grid. Dailyu cruising through good weather and bad. Different mooring every night, fresh views and freedom.We do appreciate being able to use our little base in the Fazeley area when we need to but there’s something special about being back to nomadic, back to the freedom the ‘cut’ gives you. The freedom to roam, pitch up where you want, move. When you want and plan to go where you want. it’s bliss.