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The End of the Honeymoon?
On Appeasing the Rain Gods of Cheshire, or One of Richard's Fables
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Northwich to Middlewich
Welcome to the new component of this journey, the travelogue videos. These films will be available for paid subscribers first, but will be released for general viewing later on. The rest of the content here will stay free, have no fear, and there will be clips and film avaliable for
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Sun-soaked Sandbach
With stoppages ahead and a work trip abroad in the coming days, opportunity to make some final progress towards Kidsgrove was limited, but I duly wandered the length of the Motorway network to do *something* useful before I went. As I travelled north I went through thunder, hail, and stair-rod
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Coming Around Again
Middlewich to Sandbach
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Casting Off
The Moving Pictures come to the canal…
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A Stormy Sunday in June
A rainy day in Cheshire, thunder booms and lightning rapidly flicks its strobe on and off. For a while I attempt to pump the open cargo hold out, the main purpose of today's visit; but soon this turns into a fools errand, the sheeting rain running off the
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Making Tracks
Finally the prep work is done and the long trip south can begin. It is early June 2023 as Murphy’s Game slips back into the cut and for the first time in two months the engine is primed and fired. The weather is overcast as we start the trip
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What's In A Name?
On repairs, renaming, and relaunching
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Step Aboard
On Purchasing a Very Good Boat
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Welcome, and Hello
The Restless Forge is- or will be- a working smithy housed on a narrowboat called ‘Murphy’s Game’ (nee MORLAS). This boat is a vehicle for many things; from the workaday minutiae of any forge- the commissions and repairs- to a base for teaching blacksmithing to others. It is also,