Granny Buttons (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
I'm delighted to discover you can now subscribe to RSS feeds for individual posts and comments on Granny Buttons. What this means is that if you have made a comment, you can easily and automatically read what other people say...
Granny Buttons (Free subscription) | 21/10/2008
Granny has just spent a couple of weeks at Battlebridge Basin. A big thank you to Martyn of Oothoon (boat and blog), whose berth I usurped while he was up in the Midlands. Granny Buttons, for two weeks a cuckoo...
Granny Buttons (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
Take the plunge: Canal boat living - The Independent (property supplement) Well, I'll be darned. Granny Buttons gets a namecheck (and link) in the Independent today! So does Nick Corble, amongst others. I think it's the first time Granny's featured...
Granny Buttons (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
... and more rosily, without a single accounting figure to spoil the view. This is all part of the Granny Buttons theory of crop rotation: A new canal basin can add fertility and value to a field, so long as the hedgerow is retained. At the bottom of the page Fisher German help you explore a few other related modern rural business opportunities, such as converting farm waste into sustainable...
Granny Buttons (Free subscription) | 17/11/2008
Granny Buttons is now at Bishop’s Stortford again, 43 months after the last time, and moored exactly where Herbie was in September, in Stort’s Report. After a week at Harlow I left on Saturday afternoon and overnighted at Sawbridgeworth. I...
Granny Buttons (Free subscription) | 22/11/2008
Stowaway cat turns up miles from home - Staffordshire Sentinel When Kate Blakemore's black and white cat Marvin went missing, she didn't expect him to turn up five weeks later 15 miles away. It is believed the adventurous moggy may...
Granny Buttons (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
... know which side of me to pass. They annoyed me with their indecision, faced with twelve tons of Granny Buttons bearing down on them. If' I'd run them down, I'd have been blamed, even though it wasn't my fault. But if you die alone on your way willingly down the Llyn Brianne spillover, should we be angry with you or cheer your spirit? By the way, what's the most extreme UK waterways...
Granny Buttons (Free subscription) | 31/10/2008
John of NB Alacrity has kindly sent me photos of Granny Buttons in the snow at Hertford last Tuesday. It's a rare day that sees snow on the canal these days, and seemingly rarer when I'm aboard. And I wasn't...
Granny Buttons (Free subscription) | 22/10/2008
My laptop computer screen has been playing up and this week finally failed. Granny Buttons is a labour of love and takes the place of a proper social life. Since it's researched and written the evenings, I'm temporarily computerless at...
