A riverside pub with a compendium of vintage games.

The Cock in Denford is our favourite local pub, the brewery tried to kill it off, selling the car park and running the pub down until it was about to become a house! Tim, the local plumber started opening it up in the evenings and said to the villagers that if they didn't use it, they would lose it, as they had the post office, shop etc. The pub thrived and Jaymee was made manager after the local buider bought the pub. Under Jaymee the pub has become a real community hub and has gone from strength to strength.

                       Northampton skittles

Olly (nb Wandering Snail) tries La Grenoille

       La Grenoille, a very old and unusual game

          Table skittles and shove halfpenny

 

The new narrowboat paintshop at Lilford Marina.

Tol and Linda used to live on our marina until they headed off to the canals to paint boats, they returned to buy the floating dry dock from our marina, but they encountered a problem as they couldn't get the dry dock under Irthlingborough bridge. After selling it back to Clive at our marina they got one of the farm units at the new Lilford Marina.

 

Tol supervises the positioning of the hydraulic dolly that Dolph uses to move narrowboats at the marina.

It's a tight fit!

And they're off!

Another boat painted and returned to it's owners.

Turmeric is great, even better from The Herb Boat

When working at the Cropedy Festival I always enjoy wandering down the towpath and chatting with the traders. This is the herb boat and we needed some more tumeric as we use a lot of it.

The spice and pulse rack on Freyja, which I'm going to replace with a different design that will accommodate more jars.

The refill from one boat to another.