Episode 1 of my Narrowboat Vlog describes how I bought a canal boat almost by accident - or luck, I hope - when looking to do something more interesting in my life.

With my offer on the canalboat accepted, it was now time for a full survey to see if the boat has any problems. What would Justin Green of JG Marine, Keith Meadowcroft of Voltmaster and George Marshall of Audlem Boat Company find? And, will the vendor accept any haggling on the price afterwards? This episode reveals all!

At last, the narrow boat is officially mine and I spent a day aboard just having a really good poke around and enjoying the fact that I've bought a boat. There's much to do onboard however...

Vlog number 4 and this is a tour of my canalboat from top to tail. It's still on chocks at a marina whilst I line up some maintenance to be done on it but will hopefully take to the water again in a few weeks - just in time for winter!

It's now 3 weeks since the narrowboat became properly mine and yet I'm still not aboard and still not afloat. It's OK, there are various reasons for this. I knew it would take a little time. Oh my, but it's very frustrating!

At long last the time has come for the excellent Justin Green of JG Marine to visit the boat and do lots of work on it including an engine service (oil, oil filter, air filter, fuel filter etc), add the Adverc charge controller, change the old engine mounts and much more.

Not content with my "patch it and hope" painting of the rusty spots along the gunwales of my canal boat as seen in the last episode, I decided to try to do it properly. This did not entirely come to fruition, as I explain.

Vlog 8 and I spend my first night aboard the canal boat - still on land! There's all kinds of squeaks and groans and bumps in the night and they're not from me. No, it's nothing saucy, don't get your hopes up...

After months of waiting while my house was sold, the boat was fettled and lots of boring stuff was dealt with, it was finally time to relaunch my narrowboat into the canal and take it out for a quick trip!

In which I take stock of a few things that need doing on the canal boat and then do them. This involves drilling, screwing, and a whole lot more entirely unnecessary yet amusing innuendo.

A brief technical interlude before the video of the trip to Braunston because my battery charger packed up and suddenly the boat had no usable power. So in this video I explain how I diagnosed and resolved the problem.

I was supposed to be taking the narrowboat to a winter mooring in Warwickshire but for reasons I explain in this video, I didn't. Instead of cancelling the trip though - as I had invited a friend along to show me how to do canalboating properly - we went for a two-day cruise to Braunston. This is the video of that trip.

It's rainy, cold and blowing a gale outside so I made a quick video about five simple things - three of them lightbulbs - that make my life nicer on board my canal boat!

Come journey with me down into the depths of an English canal, to a lock at Banbury in Oxfordshire that was emptied for maintenance by the Canal and River Trust. Find out how the locks are maintained and what unusual things have been found at the bottom!

Once the Spring arrives and I go out continuous cruising on the canals, I will need a way to generate electricity. Ideally this would be done without running the engine. Hence the installation of solar panels.

A couple of weeks ago a friend of mine, a former colleague from my life in TV, came to visit and experience narrowboat life so we went for a cruise.