Last night was one of the best nights both Ian and I have had in a long time. So many friends and fellow boaters turned up that it was lucky that Carole had some idea of how many Pies to order otherwise we could have had a riot on our hands.. The whole evening was full of boating tales, causing loads of hilarity, and some of our members brought their musical instruments along to entertain us.
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| enjoying the music |
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| Paul |
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| They call themselves Chilli Dogs! |
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| Michael in whistle |
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| and singing |
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| and even on the Accordian. Man of many talents. |
I departed for my bed at midnight but Ian didn't arrive back until the wee hours of the morning. We were all very bleary eyed this morning but still the mass exodus started very early.
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| Ian holding onto the rope of Electra, while Icing and Bracken sidle out. |
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| This made me chuckle. Electra was stuck on the mud and, instead of Michael grabbing the pole to help get the boat off, He let Carole do all the hard work!! |
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| Queueing for the lock. |
We were one of the last away going down with Nb Waterlily. She is actually the front end of the working boat Kestrel. The arse end is moored by Chris & Jan Deuchar at Trent lock.
After leaving Waterlily at Shardlow and watering up below the lock,we made our way to our planned destination, somewhere between Bridge 11 & 12 on the T & M. Our plan? To fill the boat with more of the wood cut down by BW's contractors.
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