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Nighttime on Still Waters

A narrowboat-based audio journal on canal life, living aboard, the elements, and the night. Perfect late-night listening for dreamers, insomniacs, night owls, nocturnalists, drifters, and nomads. For lovers Fagen"s "Nightfly", Auden"s "Night Mail", Hopper"s "Nighthawks" and the "drifting sea-dark streets" of Dylan Thomas. For all those who used to listen to the transistor under your pillow, love the sound of distant trains and rain against the windowpanes, canals and drover"s tracks, lost music,

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38:48

Cloud Herder (Won't you spin us one last story?)

Nighttime on Still Waters ·

2025/03/16

Send us a text Along the towpath, the battle between winter and spring has begun with days of warmth and days of sleet. Although even the young ducks teach us a lesson in conflict avoidance. Join us tonight as we celebrate the lives of two people who were central to the creation of Nighttime on Still Waters. Journal entry: 12th March, Wednesday. “The day winds down. A last walk along the canal side. Pebbled rings form in the open water. A kick of sleet Drives against...

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37:36

On the Leading Edge of Spring

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2025/03/02

Send us a text Along the towpath winter slowly fades. If we are not quite in spring yet, we can feel it close at hand. Join us tonight as we celebrate the shifts in light and tone across the landscape and from deep within. Journal entry: 26th February, Wednesday “For me, there are few things more beautiful and soul inspiring than this: Rain on water, Old growth by the waterside, T...

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26:34

Winter Readings ('The Great Frost of 1895' and 'Day...

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2025/02/16

Send us a text A winter’s night on the canal, starless and wind gnawed. A snug cabin with a warm stove. A hot drink in a favourite mug (and a biscuit or two). A cosy chair waiting for you. It’s just the perfect kind of night to curl up and listen to some accounts about life on the canals in winters past, when the ice was 2ft 6in deep. Journal entry: 14th February, Friday "Steel-grey half-light. Rooks swing round the naked oaks. The daily clamour of ...

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34:59

Orion Still Looks Down (On the land my shadow knows)

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2025/02/09

Send us a text It’s a bitingly cold, sleety night. There’s a warning of snow in the forecast for later. It’s a perfect night to sit together around a warm stove snug inside the Erica’s cabin, while the wild world rages outside. The kettle is singing, the biscuit barrel is full. The night belongs to us. Journal entry: 7th February, Friday. “Yesterday’s spectacular Blood-orange dawn Has given way to a dawn Without colour or feeling. We pick our way between &...

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36:29

The Changes that Come

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2025/01/26

Send us a textThere seems to be an awful of change happening recently, often unasked and with far-reaching consequences. Knowing how to deal with it can be difficult and lead us to feeling unbalanced and overwhelmed. Tonight, we try to find some still-points within the chaos. Journal entry:23rd January, Thursday“A robin, one winter, Riding out a sleety squall On the flailing branch Of pyracantha fire.He often springs to mind When squalls hit And my world lurches...

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31:11

Wrapped in Freezing Fog

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2025/01/12

Send us a textJoin us aboard the Erica, as we sit around the stove on a raw night of ice and freezing fog. Tonight, we reflect on boat (and other) life in the times of hard frost, the trials of swan and kingfisher life, and we finish with a short reading from Tom Rolt. Journal entry:9th January, Thursday“The shatter of January light On fractured ice. The smouldering Of fallen leaves Frozen into the ringing silence Of stilled waters.” Episode Inf...

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23:47

Into the Silence (The Undreaming)

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2025/01/04

Send us a textI am probably not the only one feeling a little disoriented and uncertain about what the upcoming year will hold. While it is great to have plans and dreams, these are not always possible and sometimes, I think, not even desirable. There are times for wisdom to be silent and for the 'undreaming' to occur before we can begin to discover new music and new dances. Journal entry:1st January, Wednesday“A dawn of tobacco and salmon And racing clouds.A solitary raven rows&nbs...

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32:51

Practically Speaking (Listeners' questions - 7)

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2024/12/15

Send us a textJoin 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.”Episod...

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38:02

Winter's Whispers (The wisdom of the long nights)

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2024/12/01

Send us a textJoin 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...

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38:51

The Days of No Shadow (... and then a deer barked)

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2024/11/17

Send us a textRecently, 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, FridayEarly 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...

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42:09

"Stretched into Tales that Leave a Mark"

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2024/11/03

Send us a textTwo 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...

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38:24

The Long Village (Villages and tribes)

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2024/10/20

Send us a textTonight, 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&...

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36:14

A Touch of Autumn (Apple picking time)

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2024/10/06

Send us a textJoin 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.”E...

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33:34

The Consolation of Ducks

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2024/09/22

Send us a textDid 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 ea...

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51:14

It turned a bit wet (Afloat in Hiroshige's rain storm)

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2024/09/08

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...

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30:48

Shot through with wonder (First glimpse of the sea)

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2024/08/25

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.&nbs...

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31:06

Holiday Interlude (& the Cap'n's Dad)

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2024/08/11

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 deca...

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46:27

Meursault's Walk & Mine (Dad's ashes)

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2024/07/28

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 ...

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34:27

Spun by Wonderment (above Hemel Hempstead)

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2024/07/14

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&...

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34:01

Living inside the Seasons

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2024/06/30

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 I...

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