Janet's Blog

Where has this week gone to – I hate to say it but do you realise it's only 5 weeks until the big red guy pops down our chimney and my kids go hyper on Cadbury's Selection boxes and stripey sugar canes! But let's not think about that (bah, humbug!) lets get back to important Overwater

I've heard and seen it all now – there I was sitting in the office absent mindedly staring at the CCTV screen (only because it was in the direction I was looking – not because I was being nosy) and suddenly a little black blob appeared – I did a bit of a double take, rubbed my eyes a couple of

Anyone want to buy a boat? A Cheese Boat to be precise! Cheese Boat 2 has just gone onto brokerage through Rugby Boats at Overwater. It's really exciting having such an interesting prospect to sell but, at the same time it's really quite sad because Helen and David are very special people

Last week I had a brilliant day out – at last I managed to find the time to go out and do my Inland Waterways Helmsman's Certificate with Linda from Cheshire Cat Training which is based at the Marina. Typically it just so happened to be one of the windiest days of the week but at least the

I couldn't let this week go by without saying a big thank you to Brian Phillips from nb Emily who arranged for an Astronomy Evening at the marina last Saturday night. Will Stewart of the South Cheshire Astronomy Society showed us how to look for the major constellations and I was amazed to

Sorry – it's been so hectic this month I've hardly had time to put pen to paper. September was busy last year and it's been even busier this time which is great – I don't know where the days go to – they seem to fly past. It's been a month of change – Sue has gone over to the

I'm surrounded by apples. Everywhere I look there are cooking apples. It's driving me nuts (which could be a welcome change to apples!) It happens every Autumn time – Angus and the children get carried away picking apples in the orchard and, after a couple of hours of frenzied picking

I've got a great headline for this week...."Audlem Lass in dramatic canal rescue", or as Rodney, the Audlem Lass organiser put it "The RNLI always comes up trumps!" It all started as an ordinary Saturday......until the crew of the Audlem Lass came upon a stranded

A month or so ago one of our moorers had the unfortunate mishap of slipping off her boat and having a rather cold and unpleasant ducking. Poor Julie, not only did she have to get Garry to pull her out, end up sopping wet and covered in bruises from glancing off the boat as she fell but, and much