Colin turned up at 7.30 on Monday night to make up our crew to tackle the tides. After cooking a chilli (requested by him) and several beers later, he started to feel unwell. After trying to walk the bloated feeling in his stomach of, he gave up as a bad job and decided to go to bed instead. We went as well but just outside our window were several youths talking, laughing and occasional shouting bad enough to keep us awake. Enough was enough by 12.30am. After all we had set our alarm for 5 am because we were due to enter the lock at 6am and was desperately in need of our sleep. Ian poked his head out of the hatch and asked them very politely to "clear off"! To our surprise they did. So finally we could go to sleep. Wrong again. Colin decided at that time to relieve himself of my chilli and beer and was violently sick over the side of the bow. He felt soooo much better after that and we all eventually settled down again. It felt like 5 minutes later that we were again woken up but this time it was by Jade's tail bashing the radiator. It was 4.30am and we decided to give up any more idea of sleep. So it was on with the dogs harnesses, lift them up onto the roof again and finally onto the bank so I could take them for their walk. As it was so early I hoped that they would perform. No such luck. Judy did all she needed to do but Jade decided it wasn't time yet and refused to go. So it was back to the boat but this time we didn't lift them back on the boat because I didn't really want to go through the effort of putting them back on only to take Jade of again. After another 15 minutes I tried Jade again in the park and finally she went. So back on the boat they went and just in time because the lock keeper filled the lock and got us in in double quick time.
The picture was taken in between park visits for the dogs and as the title says, a mill pond.
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