Episode Two: During the ‘live reading sessions’ we have been reading A Peep Show in Sussex by Walter Wilkinson, published in 1933. Walter and his assistant take a Punch and Judy show into Sussex and travel along the byways and footpaths finding places to perform their puppet show. I again follow the author’s footsteps from […]

Life has going back to normal since returning our canal boat trip, and it appears a bit boring. So I need to have a chat with Julia and work out a way forward with further adventures. PLEASE SUPPORT THE BALD EXPLORERMy videos are funded by people like you. If you enjoy them, please help me […]

We are back in Sussex, Julia and I, and have huddled up to my Esse Ironheart in the kitchen to go over the merits of the recent narrowboating trip. We share our thoughts on the lessons learned, and ideas for the next time we hire a boat, or possibly buy one. PLEASE SUPPORT THE BALD […]

This is the last in this current run of our canal adventures, but fear not we shall be back. We head back to the boatyard, but first pause to have a look at Mary Arden’s house and the Tudor working farm, and we take the boat through the last lock and back to its home.I […]

Episode five of our adventure on the narrow boat trip this year. We have turned the boat and are heading back – a week is never enough – and with the help of volunteers, we storm through numerous locks. At some point our heating must sure be fixed? PLEASE SUPPORT THE BALD EXPLORERMy videos are […]

Julia and I, and little Joseph, are on a narrowboating trip on the Stratford Upon Avon Canal in Worcestershire. In this episode, the fourth in the series, we think we have the heating problems sorted and try to turn the boat into a winding hole just north of Stratford as advised, but we come a […]