For viewers who do not own a canal boat but are curious about life on board, this Vlog shows one of the most frequent domestic tasks undertaken by liveaboards.

With temperatures currently plummeting in the UK and at least a fortnight's cold snap predicted with sub zero temperatures coming, it's time to have a look at the main source of heating on my narrowboat, the Villager Puffin stove. It's the heart of the boat and keeps me very toasty on these winter days and nights but it did need some fettling when I moved aboard.

An episode in which I do a canal-oriented shopping "haul" type of Vlog then follow it with a intricate explanation of how to run a mains cable half the length of the boat in order to install more power sockets. This involves disassembling much of the boat's interior and a lot of swearing.

How on earth do you keep your clothes all clean and lovely whilst on board a narrowboat cruising round the canals? In this video, I explain the options.

A nasty discovery one day when I went to turn the gas bottle off as I left the boat, finding it leaking ever so slightly which it must have been doing since I installed it three months earlier.

After a viewer request I hereby present a (rather long, sorry) video of how I set and light the Villager Puffin stove on my canal boat. I do two examples, one of lighting it from cold and the other of rekindling it from dying embers.

I take a walk around the marina and point out some different types of narrowboat styles and features for the benefit of viewers either in other countries which don't have narrowboats, or those in this country who might be looking to buy.

I've been shopping. At least, my fingers have shopped online and this video is the haul of stuff I ordered namely things to make me safer with regards to gas, gunk, a shower thingummyjig and a map.

Could this be the end of my watery adventures..? There's only one way to find out and that's by watching this episode when Things Are Changing. How very teasing of me.

Just a few weeks after putting in the order for new dinette cushions for my canal boat, they have arrived! No doubt to immense anticipation, in this video I described why I didn't like the old ones and show off the replacements.

This was going to be an entirely different Vlog but I have a problem with my water pump going off randomly - usually the sign of a leak somewhere in the pipework. But where?

Several people have asked me where I plan to take the narrowboat over the summer and several possibilities have occurred to me. In this video, I describe why I abandoned one plan and have settled (mostly) on another.

A question that I've had a lot lately is "how do you get the Internet on board a narrowboat in the middle of a canal?" So in this video I explain how I do it for both local WiFi and 3G or 4G access when cruising. Hope it's useful!

In advance of leaving the marina for the summer and going touring non-stop, I decided to have a practise run / warm-up. So marina manager Neil and I took our boats in convoy up the Grand Union Canal Leicester Arm to the Welford Arm and down the end (to the pub again). This is part 1 of the account of that trip.

This is the second and concluding part of my two-day trip along the Welford Arm of the Grand Union Canal (Leicester section). In this video, we - my friend Neil and me, each on our own boats in convoy - continue along the arm to the end, moor up, go to the pub and then trundle back.

I was supposed to be leaving the marina today for continuous cruising around the canals. Today, I have changed my plan. This morning I came up with a brilliant idea to strip out and re-design the boat inside and out. This video describes that plan.

This is a retrospective, looking back at what facilities you get when mooring in a marina; specifically Yelvertoft Marina where I was for winter. A massive thank you to everyone there who made my early boating days so pleasant.

At last! After waiting all winter, here's the first Vlog that charts my journey as a Continuous Cruiser on the canals of England and Wales. Leaving Yelvertoft marina on April 1, 2016 I head south to Watford Locks. Join me, won't you?

After a night's stop at the bottom of Watford Locks it was time to move on again. Originally I had Braunston in mind but I didn't need to be there for several days so in part because of that and partly because the weather was chilly, I ended up in a lovely spot at Norton Junction. This video shows that journey.

After a lovely couple of days hanging out in the sunshine at Norton Junction it was time to move the canal boat to Braunston ready for a minor engineering fix. This involved going through the hideous Braunston tunnel and six wide locks. There was also a nasty moment for me at the water point.

In this instalment, I move off from Braunston and head to the east side of Rugby, firstly to do a bit of laundry and get some diesel, then onwards to Hillmorton Locks. There I take a look around and chat to volunteer lock keeper Maurice Farndon about a restoration project that's underway.

Having come through Hillmorton Locks on the eastern outskirts of Rugby, I now make my way west - right through the middle of town. This also involves a stop near a large supermarket to stock up on tea and cakes then its onwards to Brinklow Marina where a viewer is paying me to film and edit a video of their newly-purchased boat for their family and friends.

In this video I move from just outside Brinklow up to the end of the Oxford Canal at Hawkesbury Junction, whereupon I shall turn onto the Coventry Canal and go north in the direction of Tamworth.

After a pleasant few days at Hawkesbury Junction, the time has come to move on but - oh no, there's a traffic jam at the water point. Then it's a swift turn onto the Coventry canal and onwards past Bedworth and through Nuneaton in one go as I have been warned not to stop there overnight for fear of vandalism and hooligans running wild. I didn't stop to find out if this is actually true.

After a day moored just outside Nuneaton, I'm moving a little way north up the Coventry Canal, through Polesworth and up to Atherstone. I'll try to get to a spot between locks 9 and 10 as I've been told it's a lovely place to spend a while. Some beautiful scenery on the way and some lovely weather too!

A brief diversion from the usual videos of my route around the canals today because - due to popular demand - I hereby present a video which attempts to demonstrate how I go through locks on my own.

A busy day in this one: 8 miles, some locks, a water refill, a loo emptying and a near-miss round a sharp bend. But all's well that ended well. Except for the results of an irresponsible dog owner.

The first of three long days begins in this video as I head south from Fazeley towards Birmingham and the many, many locks I will have to go through to ascend to its giddy height. In this video, I move to Curdworth which is just outside the Birmingham suburbs.

Finally the big day is here: a massive 27 locks await my pleasure on the way from Curdworth into the middle of Birmingham. It was a warm, sunny day and a lot of effort - I ached for several days afterwards - but it was rather satisfying.

This was supposed to be the video from the Crick Show, so as to keep the show video timely. However, since I've been ill and off visiting family, the Crick video is only 1/3 complete, so have this one instead. It's the next part of my travels after doing all those locks in the last one.

We interrupt our scheduled broadcast of trips around the canals of the east Midlands to bring you a quick Vlog from the Crick Show 2016, the annual inland waterways extravaganza held at Crick Marina in Northamptonshire.

After a few days paused at the mooring in Shirley, Birmingham, I moved on down the Stratford upon Avon canal, through the Lapworth lock flight and turned at the Lapworth Link onto the Grand Union canal.

I'd spent several days idling away my time quite pleasantly at Kingswood Junction at Lapworth but now wanted to go and visit family for a bit so needed a better place to leave the boat.

Every year sees the rally of historic working boats at and outside Braunston marina on the Grand Union Canal. I went along to get some footage and talk to the people who make it what it is.

I'd spent about a week moored at the Saltisford Arm while I went to visit family (the ones who I was supposed to have gone down the Birmingham and Worcester canal to see, but didn't). With the Crick Show fast approaching, it was time to head on back towards Northamptonshire, so here's a couple of days cruising in that direction.

This is a very ad-hoc video because as I was sitting on the boat near Braunston, staring out of the side hatch, a chap paddled alongside in a kayak. As I leaned out to chat, it turned out he wasn't doing it for fun but for charity. So here's his story.

Getting back on track with the travel vlogs from my Grand Tour earlier this year, I pick up where I left off in Vlog 51 (Bascote) and continue my route back towards Braunston. In doing this I pass through the Stockton lock flight with the help of the lovely folk on the Mikron Theatre Company boat (http://www.mikron.org.uk) and up up just past Wigram's Turn marina (Napton Junction)

Here's my final leg of the First Great Round Trip of the East Midlands canals, taking me back from just outside Braunston to Yelvertoft marina where I began.

Now back at Yelvertoft, my narrowboat gets taken out of the water so that I can tackle the rusty gas locker properly, using Fertan rust treatment followed by red oxide primer, bilge paint and then two coats of Intertuf 16 blacking for good measure.

Up, up and away as I take to the skies to gaze down on the canals from the air. All courtesy of my friend and former BBC "rival" Jon Hunt, aka The Flying Reporter - link to his channel and his version of this video below.

I've been sent an 80 Watt semi-flexible solar panel to review by a company called Lensun (www.lensunsolar.com); note that this is not an advert, they've not paid me to say nice things and they have no editorial control over this video. It's just genuinely my thoughts on the panel as I found it (until the point where I broke it, for more on which, watch the video).

In which I travel - by car - to a legendary canal village and meet the inhabitants both human (should that be "hooman"?) and animal of the narrowboat Ewart and find out what brought them to the waterways.

The August Bank Holiday brought rain at first but sunshine by the Monday and so off I trekked to the annual Festival of Water, organised by the Inland Waterways Association.

In which I try to condense everything that's happened in July and August into a ten minute video. Spoiler: I succeed because in reality there isn't much to tell. I also trail what I'm going to be doing over the next few months and some new videos that I'm working on.

A much requested video, this lengthy ramble discusses the three main types of narrowboat toilet, namely the cassette (eg Thetford or Porta Potti type), the pump-out, and the new kid on the block, the composting loo. There is much discussion of poo and wee and even a brief shot of it going through a pipe. You have been warned!

This is a follow-up to the last Vlog which was all about narrowboat toilets, hence the odd numbering of this Vlog. In this, I show you how I took out and replaced all the seals, vents and slides inside a Thetford C200 toilet cassette.

I thought I'd try a Q&A because some stuff comes up quite a lot so here's my first go at it. Also I reveal the answers to the recent competition plus the name of the winner!

On August 23, 2015, I uploaded Vlog 4 - a tour of my newly purchased canal boat. It was out of the water, fresh from its prior owners and I hadn't changed a thing. So now, 14 months later and after a year of living aboard, I present part 1 of a brand new, really really detailed look around the boat. I show what I've changed and what it's like to be afloat today.

This is part 2 of my extensive narrow boat tour. In this video I cover the bathroom ("head"), bedroom and then the engine room. The latter takes up the bulk of the video so to skip straight to that bit, go to 8'50"

After months of people saying "but what does it cost?", here's the first in a series of 3 videos about how much money it takes to buy, own and live aboard a narrowboat. In this video, it's all about the buying process. Actual monies required for buying typical boats are covered in Part 2 then ownership and liveaboard costs in Part 3

This is part 2 of my short series about the costs of buying, owning and living on a narrowboat. In this video I discuss what it costs to buy a narrowboat, from cheap second-hand ones to expensive second-hand ones, to new builds, sailaways, share boats and even GRP cruisers!

This is the third (and final, as it turns out) video in my short series about the costs of buying and owning a canal narrowboat. Here I talk about the annual ongoing costs you will incur regardless of how you use the boat, plus a quick overview of what I spend to live on board each month.

With many thanks to Alan and Wendy for letting me on board, this is another video where I peek into other boaters' craft - but also, this particular narrowboat has a fairly rare type of engine set up, being a hybrid diesel-electric.

On Saturday December 3rd, a group of narrowboat dwelling / owning / buying YouTube video bloggers came together in London for a Christmas shindig. For most of us, this was the first time we'd met in person rather than as a comment on a YouTube page. This is a quick video of our meal, necessarily brief as we were really there to socialise, not film!

It's cold and dark outside so I'm spending a lot of time watching YouTube. There are some excellent channels to keep you entertained and these are some of my favourite ones that are nothing to do with narrowboating.

I spent a rather chilly evening over at Foxton Locks for the inaugural Illuminated Boats Festival to be held at that venue. The boats were excellent - lots of decorations - but the event was a bit flat.

It's Christmas time and there's nothing finer than a slap up roast for lunch. Unfortunately I can't cook but pal Expert Gary from Yelvertoft marina is a dab hand in the kitchen. He, his wife Carol, plus boating friends Myra and Adrian came over to my boat and cooked up the full works in a cramped galley. This is how they did it.