Having made the decision to not do the Tinsley Flight on the Monday, we set off yesterday (Tuesday) with better weather and justification in our decision making the previous day. To get to the bottom of the flight of locks (Lock 12), we still had a short section of the river Don to navigate and…

So today we were supposed to be on the 9.30 flight at Tinsley Locks. This is not a plane flight, but a navigation up 12 locks in a row. You have to book in with CRT to do it. When we woke up however, it was rainy and very windy. I called CRT to see…

Today has been the opposite ends of the spectrum. We set off from Doncaster and proceeded effortlessly along the South Yorkshire Navigation. As the video below shows, all was good with some great sights and sounds (carry on reading after the video). As we progressed onto the River Don however, things began to change and…

Thank you to everyone for your good wishes as we spent my (Jo’s) birthday aboard Daisy Duke. Today was a good day. We now have fully functioning batteries and so can use the central heating and shower. We also got the stove working so felt warmer and better today. Paul carried on putting things up…

Despite the teething problems, Daisy is looking very cosy tonight and we are both feeling a lot happier 🙂

Hello everyone. So we moved on to Daisy Duke as planned yesterday (thank you Archie for dropping us off). However, we have not yet been able to set sail for a number of reasons…. Firstly, Daisy was still being finished off – she was having the pram covers fitted by Sean at SPL Covers and…

Here are a few pics to show how she is coming along. Even Zak has his own special quarters.

So we have spent a good three days up here at Thorne cleaning and fixing Daisy inside and she’s really starting to look like home. We are going to spend our first night on her tonight and we are very excited. I suspect we will be cold as we can’t use the heating yet, but…

Yesterday we travelled up to Thorne so that we can spend Friday and Saturday cleaning Daisy Duke and eugghhhhh does she need it. Inside clearly hasn’t been cleaned for years – the oven and fridge are totally gross and the dust is an inch thick! Still, I have my marigolds on and whilst I am…

Hurray! Daisy Duke is out of the paint shed and into the yard. Her paintwork looks absolutely amazing and I’ve put some pictures in the gallery for you to see. The Sign writer we used is a chap called Robert Naghi and you can view his Facebook page here https://www.facebook.com/share/6Vgbc5ZNU6vsDsTm/ Daisy just needs her bottom…