What a noisy night. I shouldn't really complain seeing as it was our decision to move the boat, but as our new mooring is directly opposite the brewery, the lorry's in the yard kept up a constant' toing and froing' all night long. I do hope they stop work at the weekend. If the don't I feel we are in for several sleepless nights.Every now and then the waft of fermenting hops fills the air which isn't to unpleasant untill you start to feel light headed with the fumes.
Just before lunch we were made aware of the ringing of bells and cries of " Bring out your dead". The lavender boat was on its way. For anyone who doesn't attend these events you wont know what I'm talking about. Every day throughout the festival a boat arrives collecting boaters rubbish and emptying the cassette loos. Lavender depicts sweet smelling but I can assure you its far from that. Someone had a good sense of humour when they named it.
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| Getting ready to empty the cassette |
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| The chap in red at the back is ringing the bell and alerting everyone to "bring out your dead"!. |
Then later this afternoon the steam boat President arrived towing Kildare. I don't envy him negotiating the single channel when he gets nearer to the site. Mind you, I'm pretty sure most boats will get out of his way! especially when he lets rip with that famous whistle of his!
2 comments:
Elaine has been doing the Lavender boat for some 20 years..... She must really love the Job hahaha.
Elaine won't let anyone else do the emptying and has a scoring system. You can only get a 10/10 if it is a bucket with lid with the name on both.
Steering the tug and hopper in those narrow surroundings was fun.
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