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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.

Saturday, 3 September 2011

Epic journey! All of 500 yds!!

Another long day of travelling. Just over a 5 minute run! Must be a first for us. I know we don't travel very far when we do get going, but this is ridiculous! We made the decision to move because we were on a 48 hour mooring and had already been there for 72 hours. Don't get me wrong, we don't normally outstay our welcome but circumstances meant that we will have to stay within this vicinity for a few more days at least. So we made our way to the park entrance and have managed to moor at the very end of the piled moorings.
We met lovely couple Marilyn and Tony yesterday afternoon. They turned up on their boat Brimstone and we did the' meet and greet' thing and had a lovely long natter. Turns out they follow several blogs, one of which was Sue on NB No Problem. In fact it was Sue that got them interested in reading other blogs. They don't blog themselves but I'm sure quite a few fellow blogger's have already met them. Marilyn told me that she is into geocaching. Ive heard of it and it sounds fascinating. Its all about finding objects at a given coordinated place. This could be anywhere in the UK or even abroad.  As long as you have GPS and a computer anyone can join in. I might have to look into that.

Tony and Marilyn's boat.
   We had a really peculiar sky last night. If there are any budding weather forecaster's out there I expect you'll  probably know what it means!

Jade had abit of a fright today. A swan with an injured wing completely blocked the towpath. Jade being the laid back dog she is just wanted to amble past. When the swan attacked her she jumped back and refused to move.  It took a lot of encouragement from me to get her past.


You can do it Jade!


Told you so.
 I'm pretty sure we won't be going anywhere in the next day or two, so the next post will probably be to show off the new frame, for the solar panel, that Ian has spent several days in making.. 

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