Narrowboat Burnt Oak: Jubilee Fibres

We are now roving traders. We’ve talked about becoming roving traders since we moved aboard and have now done it. There is room for stock, as I’ve just about used up my yarn & fibre stash from under the bed. So, Jubilee Fibres was born. At the moment we have a blog type website, Facebook and Ravelry groups. In the autumn we may get an online shop, as it could be tricky to manage if people needed to return items when we are cruising. We have a good bit of planning, ordering and organising to do at the moment. We plan to trade where ever we moor initially, publishing our ‘what3words’ location so customers can find us. Our first trading session will be Easter Weekend at Rufford Old Hall (NT House) visitor mooring.(friends.clinic.wooden....for those that use what3words)

The three grandchildren came to stay for the half term break. As the forecast was wet’n windy for most of the week we headed to Blackpool for the day on the Monday. We revisited the Sea Life Centre and strolled along the blustery beach. There were huge tree trunks on the promenade that had been washed up by the storms!!

Lance had the school teddy ‘Sam’ for the week, so he was out and about with us. The signalman at Rufford let him hold the section token. And he wasn’t short of puddles to be snapped with.

Nikita loved lighting the fire.

I tagged along with Carole & Colin to visit Bollington, where CRT are repairing the channel outside Clarence Mill on the Macclesfield Canal . It’s amazing how costly such repairs are £1.2m.

John did a weaving workshop at Ten Streets Market, Liverpool with our friend Cathy (Lazykate), which he loved. Within a couple of days he’d won the bidding on a 24” rigid heddle loom on e-bay. Luckily the loom was at Aintree, a short train ride.

On the way home from Liverpool we stopped at a lovely pub, The Lion Tavern, Moorfields, Liverpool.

We saw the huge aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales moored in Liverpool.

Last week as the wind had dropped we decided to cruise to Tarleton to do some shopping. It was so spring like and we met some lovely geese and it was warm enough to knit while we travelled.