Au Revoir!

Bonjour à tous et toutes nos amis français! Félicitations, vous nous avez trouvé, même si nous ne sommes pas encore perdu! Ca arrivera en 2012 car les caneaux sont mal indiqués...
Nous vous remercions au fond du coeur pour votre amitié, gentillesse et surtout votre patience pendant les merveilleuse années que nous avons passées ensemble.Et  merci aussi pour tous vos meilleurs voeux pour notre petit aventure! Nous penserons à vous tous les mardis soir en chanant les "chansons sociales"
Voila, c'est tout  pour l'instant. Je regrets que mon français n'est pas si lyrique que celle de notre aimiable president, mais lirez-la avec un accent anglais et excusez moi!

 For those of you who may be wondering what has possessed us to embark on this mad escape, here is your answer from the 1970s. Our first married home, on the Tipton Canal , Netherton Branch, a barely canal-worthy narrowboat by the name of Heather.
Made of oak,fastened together with iron bolts, as leaky as a rusty bucket, no steering and the top built  from an old bus, but we loved her!!! And it was  very romantic, of course!

Hopefully Vasillian will prove to be a better investment, particularly as we paid more for the survey on it than the purchase price of Heather.
Unfortunately (!!!) there'll be no Vespa scooter this time round, at least I don't think so, you never know with John... 

Meet Vasillian!

This is going to be home for at least a year, starting from 6th January 2012. I haven't actually seen it myself so goodness only knows what it's really like. John has tried to describe it and has said the interior needs some work , but hey, we'll soon be able to fix that and make it our own. We have few plans other than cruise the canals and see where we get to and what we find. An adventure in the making.

Let's get started...