New Blog

So have you found our new blog yet? It is on our website.

From today onwards you will find the blog on the blog button "New Blog". Our old blog will stay up so it can be searched and is part of our "history". Don't forget to bookmark it, create a RSS feed or whatever system you use for alerting you to new blogs.

We hope you will continue to visit with us and comment on anything that takes you eye. Our gallery will be updated month by month and you can link to these albums through our Cruises button.

Enjoy!

Parallel Blogs

For a few days we shall be running parallel blogs. Our old one on Blogger and this new one on our website. This new one is in it's final stage of testing before we go over to it permanently. Any comments or ideas that you, our readers have please do add to either blog as we wish to make it as readable and interesting as we can. The old blog may look a little different as I shall copy it from the new one!

Through this new location you will be able to follow our continuous cruising, either on our live link, journey map, and gallery and blog. When we fianly go over to this new location we will put links on both blogs. On the old one to this site and on this site to our previous blogs on Blogger.

We hope that having everything on one address will make things easier for you and us of course! Meanwhile please excuse any obvious errors as for me (Fi or Fiona, however you know me), the main blog author, this is very much a learning experience

Yesterday like most of you we fried under the sun - the warmest day so far I think. We decided to go for a "burble" on the canal - as our neighbour Dave on Nb Summer calls it.

So about three we winded at Pewsey winding hole and headed towards Wootton Rivers. This way there is the most shade on the canal. We tootled along, passing a few moored boats. There were some lovely reflections and the banks are full of wild flowers.

At Wootton Rivers winding hole this boat impeded out winding! However we managed it despite getting a few brambles on the front button

After winding we moored up for dinner. It was a lovely quiet spot, until - Here you will have to go to our new blog for pictures to solve the mystery boat and what disturbed the quiet! click here and then RSS feed or whatever to get to the new blog on a regular basis!

Only joking Andy - great to see you and to add your photo to our record of "Bloggers spotted" - another album to be uploaded to our gallery when we get time. The K & A in two weeks is a tall order, sometimes it pays to take it more slowly! We are amazed by your energy

We then had a quiet "burble" back to Pewsey, much cooler in the evening air.

Believe It Or Not

It's crop circle season!

Driving home from Devizes a couple of times this week I have been puzzled by cars parked, almost haphazardly by the road side. Not just one or tw0 but 10 - 20! The most obvious place was Alton Priors, a gorgeous small village near Honey Street and adjoining Alton Barnes.

Yesterday I twigged it - a crop circle! The countryside is at it's ripest, golden fields full of grain, green rolling hills, that special light that precedes the onset of autumn and warm sunny days that linger into the late evening. Bliss!

Yes I know - August is nearly here and we are three quarters of the way through the year. I love autumn despite it's successor winter. However autumn seems to stretch into November and often we have cruised in really warm weather.

So back to the phenomena of crop circles. Whether you believe that they are extra terrestrial, man made or highly spiritual they are fascinating. Wiltshire abounds in them! We spotted one from the canal last year, possible in roughly the same area as the one at Alton Priors.



The above appeared in a wheat field on July 22nd and I first spotted the cars on my way home on Wednesday - visitors trekking over the fields to find it. You can spot them on this close up of one of the circles (C) Lucy Pringle.



They have a strange beauty, a real work of art and deserve to be appreciated whatever your beliefs.

For more 2008 Wiltshire crop circles click here

It's Friday!

No work today and time to myself!

The last few photos of our cruise have now been added to our gallery. I hope it gives a good record of our journey. It will certainly remind us of the pleasure we had on this lovely stretch of the Kennet and Avon canal. Maybe be we will repeat the trip one day!

We love Wiltshire and it deserves more than just a drive through by car. Exploring it via the canal gives an insight into the varied countryside, the history and the special atmosphere of this part of the country. Many of the so called sights are near the canal or can be reached by bus or bike. We would recommend a visit, take your time, be tolerant of others and their life style and learn to "go with the flow"!

You will also see that I have added a countdown to pulling the pins on our side bar! I need John to tweak the HTML however! I have also noticed that he needs to sort out the "and" in John and Fiona. He is on his way back from a few days in Cornwall (without his lap top!) so will have a lot to catch up on!