Latest Liveaboard Podcast Episodes
Steps out of Step
Nighttime on Still Waters - March 27, 2022 13:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsA week of glorious spring weather has heightened springtime activity along the canal sides and nearby fields. It also coincides with a particularly busy period personally. My response and those of the birds and animals around could not be more different. We dip our toes into the worlds of the po...
Skies of Impossible Blue
Nighttime on Still Waters - March 20, 2022 14:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsThis week’s episode is filled with sunshine, the scent of resin, and the soporific call of pigeon and dove as we explore a little further afield. A visit to Dad on the north Norfolk coast means a change in landscape. Find out why, even though I love walking, I am often very reluctant to talk abo...
Wings of Angels (Cyril)
Nighttime on Still Waters - March 13, 2022 14:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsOver the last few weeks, we have watched our little swan family slowly begin the new phases in each of their lives. Whilst it can feel sad, it is also a celebration of the life of young Cyril who is now strong enough and equipped with enough skills to begin to make it in the adult world. It is a...
Masters of the High Wire
Nighttime on Still Waters - March 06, 2022 14:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsThe wind is beginning to lose its raw edge, but the water is still lively and choppy. Join us on a moonless mad March night as memories of Shambala evoke a contemplation of high-wire walking in many of its different guises. The stove is warm, the kettle is on and there is always a warm welcome f...
The Darkest of Nights
Nighttime on Still Waters - February 27, 2022 13:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsFebruary has been a month of storms both meteorological and figurative that have left many of us feeling battered and anxious. Such storms leave their marks upon the landscape and familiar terrains can become strange, alien, and threatening. The cataclysmic events of the last few days are diffi...
Riding the Storm (Eunice)
Nighttime on Still Waters - February 20, 2022 15:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsSnuggle up comfortably as you join us on the NB Erica for a wild night and day as we ride the storms Dudley and Eunice. The poems of Ted Hughes, Louis MacNeice, A.A. Milne, William Blake, and John Betjeman keep us company as they take us through a day of roaring wind and rattling rain-squalls. ...
Windy Days and Nights
Nighttime on Still Waters - February 13, 2022 13:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsYou join us tonight at the end of a rather windy day. There seems to be a fairly common feeling that we have been encountering a lot of blustery winds recently, both meteorologically and metaphorically. Tonight, we stoke the fire and reflect on the place of the wind in our lives, history and cul...
Solitary Stranger: The Wigeon
Nighttime on Still Waters - February 06, 2022 14:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsThis week we have been joined by a solitary stranger from the north. Probably blown south-west on last week’s northerly storm winds a wigeon has arrived. The appearance of this diminutive figure prompts us to find out a little more about this little duck and we discover his place in the legend o...
A Dark Alchemy of Words
Nighttime on Still Waters - January 30, 2022 12:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsLiving on a boat has meant that we have had to make some difficult decisions about which books come with us onboard. Tonight, I introduce to you one of my most favourite friends on our bookshelf – the collected poems of Dylan Thomas – and explore why he holds such an important place in my life. ...
A Dark Alchemy of Words
Nighttime on Still Waters - January 30, 2022 12:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsLiving on a boat has meant that we have had to make some difficult decisions about which books come with us onboard. Tonight, I introduce to you one of my most favourite friends on our bookshelf – the collected poems of Dylan Thomas – and explore why he holds such an important place in my life. ...
Winter on the Moorings
Nighttime on Still Waters - January 23, 2022 14:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsAs we begin to enter the depths of winter, this episode celebrates with a soundscape of winter at the moorings that tries to capture the life and energy of this season. Journal entry: “18h January, Tuesday. A rich winter moon hangs between the branches of the ash. Beneath a sky veiled in ...
Echoes of Distant Memories
Nighttime on Still Waters - January 16, 2022 13:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsThe remnants of two days of murk still cling to the hedgerows and trees as you join us tonight on the narrowboat Erica. A very slow thaw is polishing the dulled surface of the water making reflected lights once again dance with life. Curl up and let’s enjoy those little shards of distant memorie...
Into a New Year
Nighttime on Still Waters - January 09, 2022 13:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsJoin us on NB Erica on a blustery January night. The cold Wolf Moon is nearing its first quarter and the stars glitter like ice. After an unexpected delayed start to the New Year, we are back on air and with some exciting(-ish) news to tell you. Journal entry: “2nd January, Sunday. Hello New...
A Fireside Christmas Eve
Nighttime on Still Waters - December 24, 2021 15:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsCurl up with us for this very special Christmas Eve edition of the podcast. Whether you are feeling on your own or just in need of a bit of a breathing space, why not join me tonight for this special Jólabókaflóð inspired edition of Nighttime on Still Water’s? Although the weather may be closer ...
The Hill
Nighttime on Still Waters - December 19, 2021 15:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsAs tonight’s full moon is shrouded by the fog that rolls down the hill and curls and drifts upon the water join us aboard the NB Erica as we fall once more in love with the commonplace and overlooked things. The hill may not be named, or even be awarded a contour of its own, but it nevertheless ...
Winter Wisdom (Wintrum frod)
Nighttime on Still Waters - December 12, 2021 13:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsFollowing the epic weather of the past few weeks, we go back in time to a period that best celebrated this type of weather. In this episode we explore why the enigmatic appeal of Anglo-Saxon poetry and its fascination (or even obsession) with winter casts such an enduring influence on our cultur...
A Rhythm of Cycles
Nighttime on Still Waters - December 05, 2021 13:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsYou join us on (another)stormy night, but this one is moonless and black as tar. It is the night of the new moon – the Cold Moon or the Long Night Moon. The phases of the moon give us an opportunity to contemplate the intricate play of cycles all around us and how the mirror, challenge and provi...
It was a dark and stormy night...
Nighttime on Still Waters - November 28, 2021 11:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsThe after-effects of the booster jab are just beginning to slam into me and so tonight’s episode is going to be fairly short. However, you join us on a very cold and stormy night as Storm Arwen with its ‘screaming northerlies’ batters the boat and brings with it our first snows of the winter, bu...
Traveller's Joy
Nighttime on Still Waters - November 21, 2021 14:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsThe pace of autumn is gathering and a chill is creeping into the air tonight, but the stove is warm. In tonight’s episode we go off to encounter Traveller’s Joy, and explore the potency and importance of names. Journal entry: “19th November, Friday The ash tree held its breath as the moon g...
Tuzzy Muzzy & Traveller's Joy
Nighttime on Still Waters - November 21, 2021 14:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsThe pace of autumn is gathering and a chill is creeping into the air tonight, but the stove is warm. In tonight’s episode we go off to encounter Traveller’s Joy, and explore the potency and importance of names. Journal entry: “19th November, Friday The ash tree held its breath as the moon g...
Episode Out of Time
Nighttime on Still Waters - November 14, 2021 15:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsAgainst all odds, this episode comes a little out of time! Events have conspired resulting in a slightly truncated episode recorded in the afternoon!! Nevertheless, duck chatter and babies (with a little help from John Moriarty) help us to find a path through the tangled thickets that many of us...
A Dance of Firelight (and After the Fireworks)
Nighttime on Still Waters - November 07, 2021 11:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsWhat is it about fire that holds our fascination? Last weekend the clocks went back and in the span of one night darkness began to lap at the edges of our late afternoons. The encroachment of night leading the tide of winter into our daytimes can no longer be ignored and it is understandable tha...
By Swede-Lantern Light (Halloween)
Nighttime on Still Waters - October 31, 2021 10:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsTonight, you join me on a wild October night with the rain rattling against the cabin roof - so there is a little background noise in some places. But it’s warm and dry inside. Penny is snoring in front of the stove. Settle back as we look at life and Halloweens through the flickering light of a...
By Swede-Lantern Light
Nighttime on Still Waters - October 31, 2021 10:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsTonight, you join me on a wild October night with the rain rattling against the cabin roof - so there is a little background noise in some places. But it’s warm and dry inside. Penny is snoring in front of the stove. Settle back as we look at life and Halloweens through the flickering light of a...
The Elf of Plants
Nighttime on Still Waters - October 24, 2021 13:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsThis week Vanessa from ‘The Mindful Narrowboat’ vlog got me thinking and so this week we begin to explore how our knowledge and (perhaps) attitudes to fungi are changing and leading us back to older ways of thinking about the environment and our place within it. Journal entry: “21st October, T...
Worlds Turning Gold
Nighttime on Still Waters - October 17, 2021 10:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsAlthough the trees and hedgerows here are still holding on to their greens, further afield their transformation into golds and yellows and reds is unmistakable. This time of year never fails to trigger a memory of a young couple I once saw in a park in the middle of England who were entering a w...
Shipping Forecasts and Weather Logs
Nighttime on Still Waters - October 10, 2021 12:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsWhen I meet people who listen to this podcast, one of the most frequently mentioned features is the inclusion of the weather log with which I end each episode. This week I talk about what inspired it, one of which is my childhood love of the BBC’s Shipping Forecast. What makes these stark lists ...
Rook Ravaged Skies
Nighttime on Still Waters - October 03, 2021 13:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsThis has been a week of blustery winds and storms. Perfect weather for the wild choreographies of the rooks jousting on the wind. The devil has spat upon the blackberries and we (rather hurriedly) mark our first birthday – this podcast is one year old! Journal entry: “2nd October, Saturday Be...
Call of Wild Geese
Nighttime on Still Waters - September 26, 2021 13:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsThese are the mornings of mist that ring with the call of geese. What is it about catching sight of the flight of geese and hearing their wind-borne calls that evokes such feelings restless longing and yearning within us? And yearning for what? We listen to the words of Wendell Berry, BB, David...
The Gongoozler and the Nomad
Nighttime on Still Waters - September 19, 2021 12:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 35 ratingsThis week we catch up with news of our little swan family and explore the strange word ‘gongoozler’. What does it mean? Where does it come from? In some ways it functions as a shibboleth. Its use identifying the ‘true’ canal people from those outside the community. However, it also shines a ligh...
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