Narrowboat Ellis

In MY mind, this is a record of the pre-build, build and (hopefully) life aboard the good ship 'Ellis' (yes I know - she's a boat not a ship!) For More information about Narrowboat live-aboard hotel experiences, please visit the website: narrowboatellis.com

Sunday, 6 March 2016

Fall Ings Lock - Open day... Calder and Hebble

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I'm not sure HOW , but we appeared to have today (Sunday 6th March) noted down as an open day at Fall Ing's lock here in Wakefield.....
Thursday, 3 March 2016

The Barnsley Canal... un-navigable

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So, you may remember that at the weekend, we went off for a walk along part of the Barnsley Canal. When I say that, what I actually mean i...
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Tuesday, 1 March 2016

Boat Heating - Part 3

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We had a lovely walk yesterday along part of the old Barnsley canal... I took a few photos so will share them in a later post. SO - back t...
Sunday, 28 February 2016

Boat Heating... Part 2

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Where were we? - solid fuel stoves... or rather Multi fuel as planned for our boat. As I've already said, we plan on installing ours i...
Friday, 26 February 2016

Boat Heating... Part 1

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A question often asked of boaters: "Isn't it really cold in winter?" - to which the answer is of course "YES if you don...
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Tuesday, 23 February 2016

Carbon Monoxide Alarms...

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Our latest purchase for the boat are CO Alarms  (Carbon Monoxide)... oh I know it's a bit premature but they're something we DON...
Sunday, 21 February 2016

Life's 'Understudies'...

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OK... this has nothing at all to do with narrow boating but I've been thinking about something. A while back, we went to the cinema fo...
Wednesday, 17 February 2016

Toilet talk...

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We can't avoid this conversation much longer folks - the time has come for the 'Toilet discussion' ... well when I say discussio...
Monday, 15 February 2016

A New friend called "Mick"...

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Yesterday, after a morning in the garden sowing various seeds and rigging up my "Heath Robinson" electric propagators in the lean-...
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Saturday, 13 February 2016

Back to boat related stuff with retail therapy!

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Ok - so yesterday I was peeved off with 'work'... TODAY is Saturday and despite having planned to go in for 5 hours this morning, I ...
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