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    Join us tonight under the soft light of a veiled full moon as we consider the wash of winter tree colours, when to start looking for a mooring, and how practical do you have to be to live on a boat?

    Journal entry:

    11th December, Wednesday

    “All week, a north-easterly
    Has raked across the bevelled
    Waters, aching and raw,
    Rattling the stern hatch doors.

    The reeds whisper cold
    Lullabies to the moorhen.
    A kingfisher darts dimly
    Through the dusk.”

    Episode Information:

    In this episode I read two short extracts from John Clare’s ‘December’ from his Shepherd’s Calendar (1820).

    I also read ‘The Long Village (Oct 2024)’ by Mind Shambles.

    You can read the about the names of the full moons (in the UK) at the Royal Museums Greenwich website.

    With special thanks to our lock-wheelersfor supporting this podcast.

    Lois Raphael
    Sami Walbury
    Tania Yorgey
    Andrea Hansen
    Chris Hinds
    David Dirom
    Chris and Alan on NB Land of Green Ginger
    Captain Arlo
    Rebecca Russell
    Allison on the narrowboat Mukka
    Derek and Pauline Watts
    Anna V.
    Orange Cookie
    Mary Keane.
    Tony Rutherford.
    Arabella Holzapfel.
    Rory with MJ and Kayla.
    Narrowboat Precious Jet.
    Linda Reynolds Burkins.
    Richard Noble.
    Carol Ferguson.
    Tracie Thomas
    Mark and Tricia Stowe
    Madeleine Smith

    General Details

    In the intro and the outro, Saint-Saen's The Swan is performed by Karr and Bernstein (1961) and available on CC at archive.org.

    Two-stroke narrowboat engine recorded by 'James2nd' on the River Weaver, Cheshire. Uploaded to Freesound.org on 23rd June 2018. Creative Commons Licence.

    Piano and keyboard interludes composed and performed by Helen Ingram.

    All other audio recorded on site.

    Support the show

    Become a 'Lock-Wheeler'
    Would you like to support this podcast by becoming a 'lock-wheeler' for Nighttime on Still Waters? Find out more: 'Lock-wheeling' for Nighttime on Still Waters.

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    I would love to hear from you. You can email me at [email protected] or drop me a line by going to the nowspod website and using either the contact form or, if you prefer, record your message by clicking on the microphone icon.

    For more information about Nighttime on Still Waters

    You can find more information and photographs about the podcasts and life aboard the Erica on our website at noswpod.com.

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    Join us round the stove tonight as we celebrate the joys and reflect on the lessons of living on a boat when winter approaches in the good company of Tom Rolt and Christine Rigden.

    This episode is dedicated to Dad, who would have been 96 today.

    Journal entry:

    28th November, Thursday.

    “Old moon
    Curls with his back
    To the dawn.
    A slivered, sickled
    Crescent of cold silver
    That bathes the ivy
    In frost.

    My feet slide
    On beauty.”

    Episode Information:

    In this episode I read an extract from Tom Rolt’s (1944) Narrow Boat and ‘Winter Boating’ and ‘Gone Aground’ by Christine Rigden from her volume (2015) Metamorphosis.

    With special thanks to our lock-wheelersfor supporting this podcast.

    Lois Raphael
    Sami Walbury
    Tania Yorgey
    Andrea Hansen
    Chris Hinds
    David Dirom
    Chris and Alan on NB Land of Green Ginger
    Captain Arlo
    Rebecca Russell
    Allison on the narrowboat Mukka
    Derek and Pauline Watts
    Anna V.
    Orange Cookie
    Donna Kelly
    Mary Keane.
    Tony Rutherford.
    Arabella Holzapfel.
    Rory with MJ and Kayla.
    Narrowboat Precious Jet.
    Linda Reynolds Burkins.
    Richard Noble.
    Carol Ferguson.
    Tracie Thomas
    Mark and Tricia Stowe
    Madeleine Smith

    General Details

    In the intro and the outro, Saint-Saen's The Swan is performed by Karr and Bernstein (1961) and available on CC at archive.org.

    Two-stroke narrowboat engine recorded by 'James2nd' on the River Weaver, Cheshire. Uploaded to Freesound.org on 23rd June 2018. Creative Commons Licence.

    Piano and keyboard interludes composed and performed by Helen Ingram.

    All other audio recorded on site.

    Support the show

    Become a 'Lock-Wheeler'
    Would you like to support this podcast by becoming a 'lock-wheeler' for Nighttime on Still Waters? Find out more: 'Lock-wheeling' for Nighttime on Still Waters.

    Contact

    Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/noswpod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nighttimeonstillwaters/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/noswpod.bsky.social Mastodon: https://mastodon.world/@nosw

    I would love to hear from you. You can email me at [email protected] or drop me a line by going to the nowspod website and using either the contact form or, if you prefer, record your message by clicking on the microphone icon.

    For more information about Nighttime on Still Waters

    You can find more information and photographs about the podcasts and life aboard the Erica on our website at noswpod.com.

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    Recently, Britain experienced a blocking high pressure system, leading to an extended period of ‘anticyclonic gloom.’ Such are the conditions in which myths are created and as Blodeuwedd and Lleu indicate might still be created.

    Journal entry:

    15th November, Friday

    Early light.
    Thick mist
    Licked with salmon
    On the eastern edge.
    Frost glitters
    Along the cabin roof
    And rimes hoary
    On the solar panels.

    Rooks pour off
    The music stave
    Of telegraph wires
    Whirling around the one oak.

    The mist erupts
    With black wings
    And ragged song
    And such mysterious
    Determined intent
    That there is something
    In me that flies
    Off with them.

    Episode Information:

    In this episode I refer the story of Blodeuwedd and Lleu from the Mabinogion. I also refer to Gwilym Morus-Baird’s reading of it.

    The female tawny owl was recorded in the field by Sean Townsend (Freesound 2013).

    With special thanks to our lock-wheelersfor supporting this podcast.

    Lois Raphael
    Sami Walbury
    Tania Yorgey
    Andrea Hansen
    Chris Hinds
    David Dirom
    Chris and Alan on NB Land of Green Ginger
    Captain Arlo
    Rebecca Russell
    Allison on the narrowboat Mukka
    Derek and Pauline Watts
    Anna V.
    Orange Cookie
    Donna Kelly
    Mary Keane.
    Tony Rutherford.
    Arabella Holzapfel.
    Rory with MJ and Kayla.
    Narrowboat Precious Jet.
    Linda Reynolds Burkins.
    Richard Noble.
    Carol Ferguson.
    Tracie Thomas
    Mark and Tricia Stowe
    Madeleine Smith

    General Details

    In the intro and the outro, Saint-Saen's The Swan is performed by Karr and Bernstein (1961) and available on CC at archive.org.

    Two-stroke narrowboat engine recorded by 'James2nd' on the River Weaver, Cheshire. Uploaded to Freesound.org on 23rd June 2018. Creative Commons Licence.

    Piano and keyboard interludes composed and performed by Helen Ingram.

    All other audio recorded on site.

    Support the show

    Become a 'Lock-Wheeler'
    Would you like to support this podcast by becoming a 'lock-wheeler' for Nighttime on Still Waters? Find out more: 'Lock-wheeling' for Nighttime on Still Waters.

    Contact

    Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/noswpod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nighttimeonstillwaters/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/noswpod.bsky.social Mastodon: https://mastodon.world/@nosw

    I would love to hear from you. You can email me at [email protected] or drop me a line by going to the nowspod website and using either the contact form or, if you prefer, record your message by clicking on the microphone icon.

    For more information about Nighttime on Still Waters

    You can find more information and photographs about the podcasts and life aboard the Erica on our website at noswpod.com.

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    Two rather wonderful things have happened recently that has prompted this episode to take a reflective look back at this podcast and the journey we have taken together. Join us tonight on NB Erica as we celebrate sharing these night-times on still waters.

    Journal entry:

    31st October, Thursday, Samhain – All Hallow’s Eve

    “Still air.
    Wood smoke blends with night mist.
    A tawny’s call shivers
    Across the fields to the south.

    I pass a couple of boats
    With pumpkin jack o’ lanterns
    Grinning candlelight
    Onto their bows.

    The distant music of memories
    Swirl me loose from my moorings
    Casting me adrift into
    The night-times of my boyhood.”

    Episode Information:

    In this episode I read two poems
    ‘Slow Radio’ by Seán Street
    ‘The Narrowcaster’ by Archie.

    I refer to a previous episode, ‘The sun that shone on Eden (Still shines upon us here)’ and I include recordings from ‘Duck calls in the night.’

    With special thanks to our lock-wheelersfor supporting this podcast.

    Lois Raphael
    Sami Walbury
    Tania Yorgey
    Andrea Hansen
    Chris Hinds
    David Dirom
    Chris and Alan on NB Land of Green Ginger
    Captain Arlo
    Rebecca Russell
    Allison on the narrowboat Mukka
    Derek and Pauline Watts
    Anna V.
    Orange Cookie
    Donna Kelly
    Mary Keane.
    Tony Rutherford.
    Arabella Holzapfel.
    Rory with MJ and Kayla.
    Narrowboat Precious Jet.
    Linda Reynolds Burkins.
    Richard Noble.
    Carol Ferguson.
    Tracie Thomas
    Mark and Tricia Stowe
    Madeleine Smith

    General Details

    In the intro and the outro, Saint-Saen's The Swan is performed by Karr and Bernstein (1961) and available on CC at archive.org.

    Two-stroke narrowboat engine recorded by 'James2nd' on the River Weaver, Cheshire. Uploaded to Freesound.org on 23rd June 2018. Creative Commons Licence.

    Piano and keyboard interludes composed and performed by Helen Ingram.

    All other audio recorded on site.

    Support the show

    Become a 'Lock-Wheeler'
    Would you like to support this podcast by becoming a 'lock-wheeler' for Nighttime on Still Waters? Find out more: 'Lock-wheeling' for Nighttime on Still Waters.

    Contact

    Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/noswpod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nighttimeonstillwaters/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/noswpod.bsky.social Mastodon: https://mastodon.world/@nosw

    I would love to hear from you. You can email me at [email protected] or drop me a line by going to the nowspod website and using either the contact form or, if you prefer, record your message by clicking on the microphone icon.

    For more information about Nighttime on Still Waters

    You can find more information and photographs about the podcasts and life aboard the Erica on our website at noswpod.com.

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    Tonight, we are hunkered down awaiting another storm. So, come and join us for a cosy night as we reflect on the fairly unique nature of canal-life and the community that it supports, with thanks to Wayne (NB Spudley) for drawing attention to a great new canal-based charity and some wise words from Rich (by Bike & Boat).

    Journal entry:

    16th October, Wednesday

    “October drips onwards.

    The towpath washed with mud
    And brushed silvers
    Wet with fallen leaf
    And windfall twigs
    Greets me with
    A familiar squelch.”

    Episode Information:

    In this episode I read Edward Thomas’ poem ‘Digging.’

    Wayne’s Narrowboat Spudley vlog is ‘Keeping heads above water – just!’ The charity’s website is Forces Veterans Afloat.

    Rich’s photographs and writing can be found at by Bike & Boat (Facebook).

    With special thanks to our lock-wheelersfor supporting this podcast.

    Sami Walbury
    Tania Yorgey
    Andrea Hansen
    Chris Hinds
    David Dirom
    Chris and Alan on NB Land of Green Ginger
    Captain Arlo
    Rebecca Russell
    Allison on the narrowboat Mukka
    Derek and Pauline Watts
    Anna V.
    Orange Cookie
    Donna Kelly
    Mary Keane.
    Tony Rutherford.
    Arabella Holzapfel.
    Rory with MJ and Kayla.
    Narrowboat Precious Jet.
    Linda Reynolds Burkins.
    Richard Noble.
    Carol Ferguson.
    Tracie Thomas
    Mark and Tricia Stowe
    Madeleine Smith

    General Details

    In the intro and the outro, Saint-Saen's The Swan is performed by Karr and Bernstein (1961) and available on CC at archive.org.

    Two-stroke narrowboat engine recorded by 'James2nd' on the River Weaver, Cheshire. Uploaded to Freesound.org on 23rd June 2018. Creative Commons Licence.

    Piano and keyboard interludes composed and performed by Helen Ingram.

    All other audio recorded on site.

    Support the show

    Become a 'Lock-Wheeler'
    Would you like to support this podcast by becoming a 'lock-wheeler' for Nighttime on Still Waters? Find out more: 'Lock-wheeling' for Nighttime on Still Waters.

    Contact

    Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/noswpod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nighttimeonstillwaters/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/noswpod.bsky.social Mastodon: https://mastodon.world/@nosw

    I would love to hear from you. You can email me at [email protected] or drop me a line by going to the nowspod website and using either the contact form or, if you prefer, record your message by clicking on the microphone icon.

    For more information about Nighttime on Still Waters

    You can find more information and photographs about the podcasts and life aboard the Erica on our website at noswpod.com.

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    Join us on the narrowboat Erica on a moonless, star-filled night as we celebrate autumns, real and imagined, present and remembered. Although October (at the moment) is far from 'golden', it is apple picking time mem ries of which take us meandering down the wandering paths of my childhood.

    Journal entry:

    3rd October, Thursday

    “Afterglow of sunlight
    Ash etched into ice blue
    Overseen by a watching rook.

    Smoke curls
    Listless on no wind.
    Cabin lights call me home.”

    Episode Information:

    In this episode I read the following poems:

    ‘Equinox’ by Roger Garfitt
    ‘Autumn, 1964’ by John Betjeman.

    With special thanks to our lock-wheelersfor supporting this podcast.

    Sami Walbury
    Tania Yorgey
    Andrea Hansen
    Chris Hinds
    David Dirom
    Chris and Alan on NB Land of Green Ginger
    Captain Arlo
    Rebecca Russell
    Allison on the narrowboat Mukka
    Derek and Pauline Watts
    Anna V.
    Orange Cookie
    Donna Kelly
    Mary Keane.
    Tony Rutherford.
    Arabella Holzapfel.
    Rory with MJ and Kayla.
    Narrowboat Precious Jet.
    Linda Reynolds Burkins.
    Richard Noble.
    Carol Ferguson.
    Tracie Thomas
    Mark and Tricia Stowe
    Madeleine Smith

    General Details

    In the intro and the outro, Saint-Saen's The Swan is performed by Karr and Bernstein (1961) and available on CC at archive.org.

    Two-stroke narrowboat engine recorded by 'James2nd' on the River Weaver, Cheshire. Uploaded to Freesound.org on 23rd June 2018. Creative Commons Licence.

    Piano and keyboard interludes composed and performed by Helen Ingram.

    All other audio recorded on site.

    Support the show

    Become a 'Lock-Wheeler'
    Would you like to support this podcast by becoming a 'lock-wheeler' for Nighttime on Still Waters? Find out more: 'Lock-wheeling' for Nighttime on Still Waters.

    Contact

    Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/noswpod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nighttimeonstillwaters/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/noswpod.bsky.social Mastodon: https://mastodon.world/@nosw

    I would love to hear from you. You can email me at [email protected] or drop me a line by going to the nowspod website and using either the contact form or, if you prefer, record your message by clicking on the microphone icon.

    For more information about Nighttime on Still Waters

    You can find more information and photographs about the podcasts and life aboard the Erica on our website at noswpod.com.

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    Did you know that ducks participate in ‘coordinated loafing’? But that might not be the only surprising/endearing thing about them. Tonight, we celebrate the joy ducks bring thanks to video posted by a stranger in Canada.

    Journal entry:

    20th September, Friday

    “Hanging at the still-point between
    Summer and winter’s
    Swing and counter-swing.

    Rooks roister joyously westwards,
    Red with promise.
    Above them, fourteen successive
    Straggles of geese
    Head eastwards
    Flying on swift wingbeats
    Against the grain of the day.”

    Episode Information:

    In this episode I refer to Mark Hogben’s video reel (11/09/24) on Instagram of him feeding the ducks.

    I also briefly mention the following:

    Miles Hadfield’s (1950) An English Almanac
    Godfrey Baseley’s (1977) A Country Compendium
    Stefan Buczacki’s (2002) Fauna Britanica
    Jennifer Ackerman’s (2021) The Bird Way.

    With special thanks to our lock-wheelers for supporting this podcast.

    Tania Yorgey
    Andrea Hansen
    Chris Hinds
    David Dirom
    Chris and Alan on NB Land of Green Ginger
    Captain Arlo
    Rebecca Russell
    Allison on the narrowboat Mukka
    Derek and Pauline Watts
    Anna V.
    Orange Cookie
    Donna Kelly
    Mary Keane.
    Tony Rutherford.
    Arabella Holzapfel.
    Rory with MJ and Kayla.
    Narrowboat Precious Jet.
    Linda Reynolds Burkins.
    Richard Noble.
    Carol Ferguson.
    Tracie Thomas
    Mark and Tricia Stowe
    Madeleine Smith

    General Details

    In the intro and the outro, Saint-Saen's The Swan is performed by Karr and Bernstein (1961) and available on CC at archive.org.

    Two-stroke narrowboat engine recorded by 'James2nd' on the River Weaver, Cheshire. Uploaded to Freesound.org on 23rd June 2018. Creative Commons Licence.

    Piano and keyboard interludes composed and performed by Helen Ingram.

    All other audio recorded on site.

    Support the show

    Become a 'Lock-Wheeler'
    Would you like to support this podcast by becoming a 'lock-wheeler' for Nighttime on Still Waters? Find out more: 'Lock-wheeling' for Nighttime on Still Waters.

    Contact

    Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/noswpod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nighttimeonstillwaters/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/noswpod.bsky.social Mastodon: https://mastodon.world/@nosw

    I would love to hear from you. You can email me at [email protected] or drop me a line by going to the nowspod website and using either the contact form or, if you prefer, record your message by clicking on the microphone icon.

    For more information about Nighttime on Still Waters

    You can find more information and photographs about the podcasts and life aboard the Erica on our website at noswpod.com.

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    Join us tonight as Erica a wends ‘snailward’ home through a heavy rain storm - recorded, aptly enough, during another heavy rain storm! Hear also about our adventures with a drowning pigeon.

    Journal entry:

    3rd September, Tuesday

    “Cruising through a Hiroshige
    Woodblock print;
    Sudden Shower over Shin-Ohashi Bridge.
    Even the reeds look like bamboo.

    A heron pilots us home.”

    Episode Information:

    During this episode I read a short poem by Issa and read some of the lyrics from Finnegan Tui’s latest song ‘Old One.’

    I also refer to Hiroshige’s woodblock print Sudden Shower over Shin-Ōhashi Bridge and Atake, Cynthia Barnett’s (2016) Rain: Natural and cultural history, and an extract from Thomas Merton’s (2003) When the Trees say Nothing.

    With special thanks to our lock-wheelersfor supporting this podcast.

    Andrea Hansen
    Chris Hinds
    David Dirom
    Chris and Alan on NB Land of Green Ginger
    Captain Arlo
    Rebecca Russell
    Allison on the narrowboat Mukka
    Derek and Pauline Watts
    Anna V.
    Orange Cookie
    Donna Kelly
    Mary Keane.
    Tony Rutherford.
    Arabella Holzapfel.
    Rory with MJ and Kayla.
    Narrowboat Precious Jet.
    Linda Reynolds Burkins.
    Richard Noble.
    Carol Ferguson.
    Tracie Thomas
    Mark and Tricia Stowe
    Madeleine Smith

    General Details

    In the intro and the outro, Saint-Saen's The Swan is performed by Karr and Bernstein (1961) and available on CC at archive.org.

    Two-stroke narrowboat engine recorded by 'James2nd' on the River Weaver, Cheshire. Uploaded to Freesound.org on 23rd June 2018. Creative Commons Licence.

    Piano and keyboard interludes composed and performed by Helen Ingram.

    All other audio recorded on site.

    Support the show

    Become a 'Lock-Wheeler'
    Would you like to support this podcast by becoming a 'lock-wheeler' for Nighttime on Still Waters? Find out more: 'Lock-wheeling' for Nighttime on Still Waters.

    Contact

    Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/noswpod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nighttimeonstillwaters/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/noswpod.bsky.social Mastodon: https://mastodon.world/@nosw

    I would love to hear from you. You can email me at [email protected] or drop me a line by going to the nowspod website and using either the contact form or, if you prefer, record your message by clicking on the microphone icon.

    For more information about Nighttime on Still Waters

    You can find more information and photographs about the podcasts and life aboard the Erica on our website at noswpod.com.

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    Traditionally, August has been the time for Britons to head off to the seaside for their annual holiday. This week’s episode celebrates this custom and causes me to reconsider the momentous moment when I saw the sea for the first time.

    Journal entry:

    23rd August, Friday

    “All night the winds blew;
    Battering and hooliganing
    Around the boat.
    Perhaps that’s why I woke
    In a disquieted mood.

    I stand on the bank
    And feel my feet set squarely
    On the towpath.
    Each morning, a raven rows his way
    Across the sky, from east to west.”

    Episode Information:

    In this episode I read Mind Shamble’s poem ‘Over Steam (Spring 2021)’ and read excerpts from John Betjeman’s poems, ‘Seaside Golf’, ‘Trebetherick’, and ‘Greenaway.’ I also refer to the song ‘Morningtown Ride’ by M. Reynolds and sung by The Seekers.

    With special thanks to our lock-wheelersfor supporting this podcast.

    Andrea Hansen
    Chris Hinds
    David Dirom
    Chris and Alan on NB Land of Green Ginger
    Captain Arlo
    Rebecca Russell
    Allison on the narrowboat Mukka
    Derek and Pauline Watts
    Anna V.
    Orange Cookie
    Donna Kelly
    Mary Keane.
    Tony Rutherford.
    Arabella Holzapfel.
    Rory with MJ and Kayla.
    Narrowboat Precious Jet.
    Linda Reynolds Burkins.
    Richard Noble.
    Carol Ferguson.
    Tracie Thomas
    Mark and Tricia Stowe
    Madeleine Smith

    General Details

    In the intro and the outro, Saint-Saen's The Swan is performed by Karr and Bernstein (1961) and available on CC at archive.org.

    Two-stroke narrowboat engine recorded by 'James2nd' on the River Weaver, Cheshire. Uploaded to Freesound.org on 23rd June 2018. Creative Commons Licence.

    Piano and keyboard interludes composed and performed by Helen Ingram.

    All other audio recorded on site.

    Support the show

    Become a 'Lock-Wheeler'
    Would you like to support this podcast by becoming a 'lock-wheeler' for Nighttime on Still Waters? Find out more: 'Lock-wheeling' for Nighttime on Still Waters.

    Contact

    Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/noswpod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nighttimeonstillwaters/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/noswpod.bsky.social Mastodon: https://mastodon.world/@nosw

    I would love to hear from you. You can email me at [email protected] or drop me a line by going to the nowspod website and using either the contact form or, if you prefer, record your message by clicking on the microphone icon.

    For more information about Nighttime on Still Waters

    You can find more information and photographs about the podcasts and life aboard the Erica on our website at noswpod.com.

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    We’re on HOLIDAY! And so, a rather truncated and spur of the moment podcast tonight. However, join us as we enjoy a spot of tranquillity canal-style. We also hear a lovely story from one of our long-time listeners and lock-wheelers.

    Journal entry:

    25th July, Thursday

    “The sun flashes off the canal
    in a shimmering dance of light.

    Sweet fruit hang amid
    The dappled leaves and butterflies,
    Rotting on the higher branches.
    We below them look up
    Rueing such waste and decay;
    Sweetness lost to the wasps.

    But for the bottle green beetle
    There is no decay, only ripeness
    And life.

    For the plum tree,
    There is no loss, no waste,
    Just the culmination
    Of a winter’s worth of survival
    During the long cold of
    Darkened days.

    My world must seem so
    Totally incomprehensible
    To them.”

    Episode Information:

    In this episode I recommend Wes and Amy’s vlog: Boat Time.

    With special thanks to our lock-wheelersfor supporting this podcast.

    Andrea Hansen
    Chris Hinds
    David Dirom
    Chris and Alan on NB Land of Green Ginger
    Captain Arlo
    Rebecca Russell
    Allison on the narrowboat Mukka
    Derek and Pauline Watts
    Anna V.
    Orange Cookie
    Donna Kelly
    Mary Keane.
    Tony Rutherford.
    Arabella Holzapfel.
    Rory with MJ and Kayla.
    Narrowboat Precious Jet.
    Linda Reynolds Burkins.
    Richard Noble.
    Carol Ferguson.
    Tracie Thomas
    Mark and Tricia Stowe
    Madeleine Smith

    General Details

    In the intro and the outro, Saint-Saen's The Swan is performed by Karr and Bernstein (1961) and available on CC at archive.org.

    Two-stroke narrowboat engine recorded by 'James2nd' on the River Weaver, Cheshire. Uploaded to Freesound.org on 23rd June 2018. Creative Commons Licence.

    Piano and keyboard interludes composed and performed by Helen Ingram.

    All other audio recorded on site.

    Support the show

    Become a 'Lock-Wheeler'
    Would you like to support this podcast by becoming a 'lock-wheeler' for Nighttime on Still Waters? Find out more: 'Lock-wheeling' for Nighttime on Still Waters.

    Contact

    Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/noswpod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nighttimeonstillwaters/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/noswpod.bsky.social Mastodon: https://mastodon.world/@nosw

    I would love to hear from you. You can email me at [email protected] or drop me a line by going to the nowspod website and using either the contact form or, if you prefer, record your message by clicking on the microphone icon.

    For more information about Nighttime on Still Waters

    You can find more information and photographs about the podcasts and life aboard the Erica on our website at noswpod.com.

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    Join me tonight as I recount a strange and rather unnerving experience that I had just over a week ago, of feeling as if I were walking in the footsteps of Meursault, the main character of one of my favourite books, Albert Camus’ The Outsider.

    Please note that this episode contains themes relating to death and cremation.

    Journal entry:

    25th July, Thursday

    “First light of iron and steel.
    A mist of rain
    On the back of
    A wind from the south.

    A raven calls from the
    Topmost branch of the tallest
    Of the convocational oaks.

    We both look west
    And share this morning light
    Of rain and southerly wind.”

    Episode Information:

    In this episode I read an extract from Albert Camus’ (1942) The Outsider translated by Sandra Smith and published in 2012 by Penguin Classics. I also briefly refer to his The Plague also published by Penguin.

    To listen to the episode that I refer to in this podcast: Walking Home (in fading light).

    With special thanks to our lock-wheelersfor supporting this podcast.

    David Dirom
    Chris and Alan on NB Land of Green Ginger
    Captain Arlo
    Rebecca Russell
    Allison on the narrowboat Mukka
    Derek and Pauline Watts
    Anna V.
    Orange Cookie
    Donna Kelly
    Mary Keane.
    Tony Rutherford.
    Arabella Holzapfel.
    Rory with MJ and Kayla.
    Narrowboat Precious Jet.
    Linda Reynolds Burkins.
    Richard Noble.
    Carol Ferguson.
    Tracie Thomas
    Mark and Tricia Stowe
    Madeleine Smith

    General Details

    In the intro and the outro, Saint-Saen's The Swan is performed by Karr and Bernstein (1961) and available on CC at archive.org.

    Two-stroke narrowboat engine recorded by 'James2nd' on the River Weaver, Cheshire. Uploaded to Freesound.org on 23rd June 2018. Creative Commons Licence.

    Piano and keyboard interludes composed and performed by Helen Ingram.

    All other audio recorded on site.

    Support the show

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    There are times that can touch us deeply. Very often they are not about finding a place of peace or somewhere outstandingly beautiful. It is something else. Something beyond these things. It is about encountering something wonderful, and being spun by wonderment.
    Join us tonight as we recover from dragging a very smelly and wet dog out of the canal!

    Journal entry:

    13th July, Saturday

    “Loosestrife sets alight
    The greyness of the day
    With purple fire.

    Chiff chaff squeak
    Like rusty wheelbarrows
    Among the dog-rose
    And willowherb spires.

    Maggie sniffs each stone
    in turn of the snapped-back bridge
    As we pass underneath it
    With a thrash of white water.

    The heron is back
    And so are we.”

    Episode Information:

    In this episode I briefly mention a line from ‘Waltzing Along’ by James (1997) and Kai T Murano’s The Monk and the Butterfly, self-published in 2024.

    With special thanks to our lock-wheelersfor supporting this podcast.

    David Dirom
    Chris and Alan on NB Land of Green Ginger
    Captain Arlo
    Rebecca Russell
    Allison on the narrowboat Mukka
    Derek and Pauline Watts
    Anna V.
    Orange Cookie
    Donna Kelly
    Mary Keane.
    Tony Rutherford.
    Arabella Holzapfel.
    Rory with MJ and Kayla.
    Narrowboat Precious Jet.
    Linda Reynolds Burkins.
    Richard Noble.
    Carol Ferguson.
    Tracie Thomas
    Mark and Tricia Stowe
    Madeleine Smith

    General Details

    In the intro and the outro, Saint-Saen's The Swan is performed by Karr and Bernstein (1961) and available on CC at archive.org.

    Two-stroke narrowboat engine recorded by 'James2nd' on the River Weaver, Cheshire. Uploaded to Freesound.org on 23rd June 2018. Creative Commons Licence.

    Piano and keyboard interludes composed and performed by Helen Ingram.

    All other audio recorded on site.

    Support the show

    Become a 'Lock-Wheeler'
    Would you like to support this podcast by becoming a 'lock-wheeler' for Nighttime on Still Waters? Find out more: 'Lock-wheeling' for Nighttime on Still Waters.

    Contact

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    I would love to hear from you. You can email me at [email protected] or drop me a line by going to the nowspod website and using either the contact form or, if you prefer, record your message by clicking on the microphone icon.

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    This episode was inspired by a sentence in Beth Kempton's Wabi Sabi and explores how calendars can connect us more closely to the world around us. Join us tonight as we explore the year through the eyes of some Japanese poets and celebrate the unfolding of the summer.

    Journal entry:

    25th June, Tuesday

    “First day this summer
    Of real heat.
    All day, my shirt has stuck
    To my back.

    This evening
    The clover field
    Hums with
    The work of bees.”

    Episode Information:

    In this episode I recite a number of Larry Hammer’s translations of Japanese poems from the Kokinshū from his (2018) Ice Melts in the Wind published by Cholla Bear Press, as well as haiku from The Four Seasons published (1958) by Peter Pauper Press.

    I also refer to Lev Parikian’s (2021) Light Rains Sometimes Fall published by Elliott and Thompson, and Beth Kempton’s (2018) Wabi Sabi published by Piatkus.

    With special thanks to our lock-wheelers for supporting this podcast.

    David Dirom
    Chris and Alan on NB Land of Green Ginger
    Captain Arlo
    Rebecca Russell
    Allison on the narrowboat Mukka
    Derek and Pauline Watts
    Anna V.
    Orange Cookie
    Donna Kelly
    Mary Keane.
    Tony Rutherford.
    Arabella Holzapfel.
    Rory with MJ and Kayla.
    Narrowboat Precious Jet.
    Linda Reynolds Burkins.
    Richard Noble.
    Carol Ferguson.
    Tracie Thomas
    Mark and Tricia Stowe
    Madeleine Smith

    General Details

    In the intro and the outro, Saint-Saen's The Swan is performed by Karr and Bernstein (1961) and available on CC at archive.org.

    Two-stroke narrowboat engine recorded by 'James2nd' on the River Weaver, Cheshire. Uploaded to Freesound.org on 23rd June 2018. Creative Commons Licence.

    Piano and keyboard interludes composed and performed by Helen Ingram.

    All other audio recorded on site.

    Support the show

    Become a 'Lock-Wheeler'
    Would you like to support this podcast by becoming a 'lock-wheeler' for Nighttime on Still Waters? Find out more: 'Lock-wheeling' for Nighttime on Still Waters.

    Contact

    Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/noswpod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nighttimeonstillwaters/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/noswpod.bsky.social Mastodon: https://mastodon.world/@nosw

    I would love to hear from you. You can email me at [email protected] or drop me a line by going to the nowspod website and using either the contact form or, if you prefer, record your message by clicking on the microphone icon.

    For more information about Nighttime on Still Waters

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    Join us on a wet and windy night as, tonight, we listen the strange and untameable tale of Fionnghuala, Oadh, Fiacra and Conn, the children of Lir, and meet up with our own (children of the) children of Lir who share their own wild mythologies.

    I also give an explanatory statement about the YouTube podcast channel.

    Journal entry:

    11th June, Tuesday

    “Standing knee deep
    In a green ocean of grass.
    The woodpecker’s
    Seagull laughter
    Tumbles among the trees below.

    And here am I,
    On a summer’s evening,
    Skimming stones across the stilled waters
    Of a restless mind.”

    Episode Information:

    In this episode I retell the story of the Children of Lir. As can be expected from a tale birthed in orality it can be found in many forms. A good introduction can be found here: Wilderness Ireland. However, oral stories are not so much about the precise details but what you, the listener, bring to them.

    I also refer to our old friend, Miles Hadfield’s (1950) An English Almanac.

    With special thanks to our lock-wheelersfor supporting this podcast.

    David Dirom
    Chris and Alan on NB Land of Green Ginger
    Captain Arlo
    Rebecca Russell
    Allison on the narrowboat Mukka
    Derek and Pauline Watts
    Anna V.
    Orange Cookie
    Donna Kelly
    Mary Keane.
    Tony Rutherford.
    Arabella Holzapfel.
    Rory with MJ and Kayla.
    Narrowboat Precious Jet.
    Linda Reynolds Burkins.
    Richard Noble.
    Carol Ferguson.
    Tracie Thomas
    Mark and Tricia Stowe
    Madeleine Smith

    General Details

    In the intro and the outro, Saint-Saen's The Swan is performed by Karr and Bernstein (1961) and available on CC at archive.org.

    Two-stroke narrowboat engine recorded by 'James2nd' on the River Weaver, Cheshire. Uploaded to Freesound.org on 23rd June 2018. Creative Commons Licence.

    Piano and keyboard interludes composed and performed by Helen Ingram.

    All other audio recorded on site.

    Support the show

    Become a 'Lock-Wheeler'
    Would you like to support this podcast by becoming a 'lock-wheeler' for Nighttime on Still Waters? Find out more: 'Lock-wheeling' for Nighttime on Still Waters.

    Contact

    Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/noswpod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nighttimeonstillwaters/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/noswpod.bsky.social Mastodon: https://mastodon.world/@nosw

    I would love to hear from you. You can email me at [email protected] or drop me a line by going to the nowspod website and using either the contact form or, if you prefer, record your message by clicking on the microphone icon.

    For more information about Nighttime on Still Waters

    You can find more information and photographs about the podcasts and life aboard the Erica on our website at noswpod.com.

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    Sometimes episodes have a mind of their own and take you to unplanned places they think you need to go. This is one of those episodes. One ‘soft’ Sunday morning in May in John Clare country.

    Journal entry:

    31st May, Friday

    “Standing looking south-west
    Across the vale.
    Four ducks circle above the water.
    Then swoop down and land in unison.

    The fields and hills in the distance
    Fade into soft light.”

    Episode Information:

    In this episode I read John Clare’s poem ‘Day-Break’ and a very short extract from his Shepherd’s Calendar.

    You can visit Deborah Vass’s beautiful website here: Still Sketching.

    Cally Conway’s gorgeous nature inspired linocuts can be viewed here: Cally Conway Prints.

    You can view Karen and Jason Politte’s videos: Just Two People.

    The soundscape was recorded in Weldon Woodland Park on 26/05/24.

    With special thanks to our lock-wheelersfor supporting this podcast.

    David Dirom
    Chris and Alan on NB Land of Green Ginger
    Captain Arlo
    Rebecca Russell
    Allison on the narrowboat Mukka
    Derek and Pauline Watts
    Anna V.
    Orange Cookie
    Donna Kelly
    Mary Keane.
    Tony Rutherford.
    Arabella Holzapfel.
    Rory with MJ and Kayla.
    Narrowboat Precious Jet.
    Linda Reynolds Burkins.
    Richard Noble.
    Carol Ferguson.
    Tracie Thomas
    Mark and Tricia Stowe
    Madeleine Smith

    General Details

    In the intro and the outro, Saint-Saen's The Swan is performed by Karr and Bernstein (1961) and available on CC at archive.org.

    Two-stroke narrowboat engine recorded by 'James2nd' on the River Weaver, Cheshire. Uploaded to Freesound.org on 23rd June 2018. Creative Commons Licence.

    Piano and keyboard interludes composed and performed by Helen Ingram.

    All other audio recorded on site.

    Support the show

    Become a 'Lock-Wheeler'
    Would you like to support this podcast by becoming a 'lock-wheeler' for Nighttime on Still Waters? Find out more: 'Lock-wheeling' for Nighttime on Still Waters.

    Contact

    Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/noswpod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nighttimeonstillwaters/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/noswpod.bsky.social Mastodon: https://mastodon.world/@nosw

    I would love to hear from you. You can email me at [email protected] or drop me a line by going to the nowspod website and using either the contact form or, if you prefer, record your message by clicking on the microphone icon.

    For more information about Nighttime on Still Waters

    You can find more information and photographs about the podcasts and life aboard the Erica on our website at noswpod.com.

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    In tonight’s episode we meet a couple of beautiful spring flowers with some fearsome reputations and go about spring cleaning a very messy and cluttered boat with the help of Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows.

    Journal entry:

    8th May, Wednesday.

    “A May evening of golden haze
    And drifting willow down
    And the busy day winds down.

    Nearby, lambs call as mothers graze and nuzzle
    Beyond them, chiff-chaff, robin, and bluetit.
    Further distant, the sound of children playing.
    Beyond that a dog barks and another answers.
    Further still a train clatters over some points.

    Encircled by ever increasing concentric
    rings of soundscapes
    That pin me to the epicentre of this
    May evening of golden haze."

    Episode Information:

    Karen and Jason made a video of their time on NB Sam's Drum. You can view it here: Leaving America for a Narrowboat.
    With special thanks to our lock-wheelersfor supporting this podcast.

    Chris and Alan on NB Land of Green Ginger
    Captain Arlo
    Rebecca Russell
    Allison on the narrowboat Mukka
    Derek and Pauline Watts
    Anna V.
    Orange Cookie
    Donna Kelly
    Mary Keane.
    Tony Rutherford.
    Arabella Holzapfel.
    Rory with MJ and Kayla.
    Narrowboat Precious Jet.
    Linda Reynolds Burkins.
    Richard Noble.
    Carol Ferguson.
    Tracie Thomas
    Mark and Tricia Stowe
    Madeleine Smith

    General Details

    In the intro and the outro, Saint-Saen's The Swan is performed by Karr and Bernstein (1961) and available on CC at archive.org.

    Two-stroke narrowboat engine recorded by 'James2nd' on the River Weaver, Cheshire. Uploaded to Freesound.org on 23rd June 2018. Creative Commons Licence.

    Piano and keyboard interludes composed and performed by Helen Ingram.

    All other audio recorded on site.

    Support the show

    Become a 'Lock-Wheeler'
    Would you like to support this podcast by becoming a 'lock-wheeler' for Nighttime on Still Waters? Find out more: 'Lock-wheeling' for Nighttime on Still Waters.

    Contact

    Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/noswpod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nighttimeonstillwaters/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/noswpod.bsky.social Mastodon: https://mastodon.world/@nosw

    I would love to hear from you. You can email me at [email protected] or drop me a line by going to the nowspod website and using either the contact form or, if you prefer, record your message by clicking on the microphone icon.

    For more information about Nighttime on Still Waters

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    In tonight’s episode we meet a couple of beautiful spring flowers with some fearsome reputations and go about spring cleaning a very messy and cluttered boat with the help of Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows.

    Journal entry:

    20th April, Saturday

    “A ring of coltsfoot heads has been placed
    In the crevice of an oak-beam used as a picnic table.
    They lie bleached and desiccated
    Shrouded in fine cobweb and dust.
    They look just like the vestige
    Of some prehistoric ritual.

    Perhaps some child placed them there
    On a sunny day of picnic and leisure.
    It is good to know
    That we have not grown so far distant
    From our forebears to have forgotten
    Our need to be human.”

    Episode Information:

    In this episode I read the opening pages of Kenneth Grahame’s (1908) The Wind in the Willows republished by Penguin Classics.

    I also refer to Roy Vickery’s (2019) Vickery’s Folk Flora, published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson and

    With special thanks to our lock-wheelersfor supporting this podcast.

    Chris and Alan on NB Land of Green Ginger
    Captain Arlo
    Rebecca Russell
    Allison on the narrowboat Mukka
    Derek and Pauline Watts
    Anna V.
    Orange Cookie
    Donna Kelly
    Mary Keane.
    Tony Rutherford.
    Arabella Holzapfel.
    Rory with MJ and Kayla.
    Narrowboat Precious Jet.
    Linda Reynolds Burkins.
    Richard Noble.
    Carol Ferguson.
    Tracie Thomas
    Mark and Tricia Stowe
    Madeleine Smith

    General Details

    In the intro and the outro, Saint-Saen's The Swan is performed by Karr and Bernstein (1961) and available on CC at archive.org.

    Two-stroke narrowboat engine recorded by 'James2nd' on the River Weaver, Cheshire. Uploaded to Freesound.org on 23rd June 2018. Creative Commons Licence.

    Piano and keyboard interludes composed and performed by Helen Ingram.

    All other audio recorded on site.

    Support the show

    Become a 'Lock-Wheeler'
    Would you like to support this podcast by becoming a 'lock-wheeler' for Nighttime on Still Waters? Find out more: 'Lock-wheeling' for Nighttime on Still Waters.

    Contact

    Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/noswpod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nighttimeonstillwaters/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/noswpod.bsky.social Mastodon: https://mastodon.world/@nosw

    I would love to hear from you. You can email me at [email protected] or drop me a line by going to the nowspod website and using either the contact form or, if you prefer, record your message by clicking on the microphone icon.

    For more information about Nighttime on Still Waters

    You can find more information and photographs about the podcasts and life aboard the Erica on our website at noswpod.com.

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    For us the river of the year has, so far, been roaring and fierce. It is difficult, at times, to see the bank or to even know whether we are floating or sinking. However, that is only one small part of the picture. What follows is a rather incoherent attempt to find coherence amid the noise.

    Journal entry:

    10th April, Wednesday

    “This morning dawned in chilled silver
    I wore my coat up to my chin.
    Now the sun is out
    And coltsfoot down dances
    On a warm wind.”

    With special thanks to our lock-wheelersfor supporting this podcast.

    Chris and Alan on NB Land of Green Ginger
    Captain Arlo
    Rebecca Russell
    Allison on the narrowboat Mukka
    Derek and Pauline Watts
    Anna V.
    Orange Cookie
    Donna Kelly
    Mary Keane.
    Tony Rutherford.
    Arabella Holzapfel.
    Rory with MJ and Kayla.
    Narrowboat Precious Jet.
    Linda Reynolds Burkins.
    Richard Noble.
    Carol Ferguson.
    Tracie Thomas
    Mark and Tricia Stowe
    Madeleine Smith

    General Details

    In the intro and the outro, Saint-Saen's The Swan is performed by Karr and Bernstein (1961) and available on CC at archive.org.

    Two-stroke narrowboat engine recorded by 'James2nd' on the River Weaver, Cheshire. Uploaded to Freesound.org on 23rd June 2018. Creative Commons Licence.

    Piano and keyboard interludes composed and performed by Helen Ingram.

    All other audio recorded on site.

    Support the show

    Become a 'Lock-Wheeler'
    Would you like to support this podcast by becoming a 'lock-wheeler' for Nighttime on Still Waters? Find out more: 'Lock-wheeling' for Nighttime on Still Waters.

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    Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/noswpod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nighttimeonstillwaters/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/noswpod.bsky.social Mastodon: https://mastodon.world/@nosw

    I would love to hear from you. You can email me at [email protected] or drop me a line by going to the nowspod website and using either the contact form or, if you prefer, record your message by clicking on the microphone icon.

    For more information about Nighttime on Still Waters

    You can find more information and photographs about the podcasts and life aboard the Erica on our website at noswpod.com.

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    As the slow march of Spring travels along the canal and towpaths, tonight I answer two more questions: How do we keep the boat from freezing when we have to leave it unattended, and how long does it normally take to buy a narrowboat?

    Journal entry:

    7th March, Thursday.

    “A grey wind blows
    From a grey sky
    Troubling the surface
    Of the canal.

    Damson blossom
    Torn from branch
    Spun snow-like
    With each gust.

    Sweet smell of woodsmoke
    And the throat-catch of coal
    Crosses my path, head high,
    And is lost along the towpath.

    þæs ofereode,
    þisses swa mæg
    (That passed over…
    so may this)

    Episode Information:

    In this episode I refer to Miles Hadfield’s (1950) English Almanac and Eleanor Parker’s (2022) Winters in the World. I also read a verse from John Clare’s ‘Last of March written at Lolham Briggs.’

    With special thanks to our lock-wheelersfor supporting this podcast.

    Chris and Alan on NB Land of Green Ginger
    Captain Arlo
    Rebecca Russell
    Allison on the narrowboat Mukka
    Derek and Pauline Watts
    Anna V.
    Orange Cookie
    Donna Kelly
    Mary Keane.
    Tony Rutherford.
    Arabella Holzapfel.
    Rory with MJ and Kayla.
    Narrowboat Precious Jet.
    Linda Reynolds Burkins.
    Richard Noble.
    Carol Ferguson.
    Tracie Thomas
    Mark and Tricia Stowe
    Madeleine Smith

    General Details

    In the intro and the outro, Saint-Saen's The Swan is performed by Karr and Bernstein (1961) and available on CC at archive.org.

    Two-stroke narrowboat engine recorded by 'James2nd' on the River Weaver, Cheshire. Uploaded to Freesound.org on 23rd June 2018. Creative Commons Licence.

    Piano and keyboard interludes composed and performed by Helen Ingram.

    All other audio recorded on site.

    Support the show

    Become a 'Lock-Wheeler'
    Would you like to support this podcast by becoming a 'lock-wheeler' for Nighttime on Still Waters? Find out more: 'Lock-wheeling' for Nighttime on Still Waters.

    Contact

    Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/noswpod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nighttimeonstillwaters/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/noswpod.bsky.social Mastodon: https://mastodon.world/@nosw

    I would love to hear from you. You can email me at [email protected] or drop me a line by going to the nowspod website and using either the contact form or, if you prefer, record your message by clicking on the microphone icon.

    For more information about Nighttime on Still Waters

    You can find more information and photographs about the podcasts and life aboard the Erica on our website at noswpod.com.

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    As a family, we gained a reputation for the way our 'short walks' often turned into marathon hikes which invariably meant staggering home long after dark (usually without a torch). In this week’s episode I reminisce on the lessons learnt, their prescient significance, and living in a culture that does growing old and dying so astonishingly badly.

    Journal entry:

    24th February, Saturday.

    “Cloud cliffs, grey and climbing
    Early spring sunshine
    Catching the stonework traceries
    And Benedictine flint and brickwork.

    The hub of politicking and commerce
    Silenced by the wheel-turn of centuries.
    Now trees stand where monks walked
    And daffodils nod in silent prayer.

    An hour of gentle talk and laughter
    Among such emerald greens of spring.
    And crows bathe in the Stiffkey brook
    As the wayside flames with primrose,
    Crocus, and snowdrop.

    Later, vast flights of wild geese fly south
    Along the coastline.”

    Episode Information:

    This episode comprises largely of family recollections, but please note that it also touches on the themes on death and dying.

    With special thanks to our lock-wheelers for supporting this podcast.

    Chris and Alan on NB The Land of Green Ginger
    Captain Arlo
    Rebecca Russell
    Allison on the narrowboat Mukka
    Derek and Pauline Watts
    Anna V.
    Orange Cookie
    Donna Kelly
    Mary Keane.
    Tony Rutherford.
    Arabella Holzapfel.
    Rory with MJ and Kayla.
    Narrowboat Precious Jet.
    Linda Reynolds Burkins.
    Richard Noble.
    Carol Ferguson.
    Tracie Thomas
    Mark and Tricia Stowe
    Madeleine Smith

    General Details

    In the intro and the outro, Saint-Saen's The Swan is performed by Karr and Bernstein (1961) and available on CC at archive.org.

    Two-stroke narrowboat engine recorded by 'James2nd' on the River Weaver, Cheshire. Uploaded to Freesound.org on 23rd June 2018. Creative Commons Licence.

    Piano and keyboard interludes composed and performed by Helen Ingram.

    All other audio recorded on site.

    Support the show

    Become a 'Lock-Wheeler'
    Would you like to support this podcast by becoming a 'lock-wheeler' for Nighttime on Still Waters? Find out more: 'Lock-wheeling' for Nighttime on Still Waters.

    Contact

    Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/noswpod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nighttimeonstillwaters/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/noswpod.bsky.social Mastodon: https://mastodon.world/@nosw

    I would love to hear from you. You can email me at [email protected] or drop me a line by going to the nowspod website and using either the contact form or, if you prefer, record your message by clicking on the microphone icon.

    For more information about Nighttime on Still Waters

    You can find more information and photographs about the podcasts and life aboard the Erica on our website at noswpod.com.