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In 1977 we hired our first narrowboat from Anglo Welsh at Market Harborough.From that moment our destiny was set. In 2006 we finally purchased our own brand new 57' narrowboat which we named 'Free Spirit'. Our aim is to travel the length and breadth of all the navigable rivers and canals of the UK. This will be our story as it unfolds.

Tuesday 22 March 2011

Our duck family & mystery solved of Anglo Welsh boat on the facilities.


We have finally put our ducks back on the omni directional aerial. Hopefully this time they will stay put. Ian has Super glued them in place so if anyone wants them they will have to take the aerial  too!!
I have found out why Anglo Welsh at Great Haywood has one of their boats on part of the facilities. I know it has been a bone of contention to quite a few boaters, with queues forming to water up. Well several weeks ago a lone boater on the visitor mooring suffered a stroke. Anglo Welsh stepped in and became the good Samaritan helping him with his everyday living needs as the local social services were not up to the task. They would have put his boat in the basin but because of the way the fleet are moored he wouldn't have been able to get himself onto the bank. So now you might ask, why an Anglo Welsh boat . Well, his boat has had to go into dry dock for  work to be done on it so again Anglo Welsh stepped in and " lent " him one of their boats while the work was carried out. Now that's what I call doing a good deed. So the morale to this tale is that I suppose we should'nt really judge until we know all the facts.   Posted by Picasa

1 comment:

KevinTOO said...

Hi Ian, Irene and the Dusck family,
Thanks for posting the information regarding Anglo Welsh... I've sent them a 'well done' message as a result. It's so heart warming to know that they have done so much to help this boater in distress. I hope that s/he is on the road to recovery.

Kevin

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