New steps for Jade

Yesterday I mentioned about making several ramps for Jade so she could get off the boat, well after a bit of a rethink Ian decided it would be almost impossible to make the ramps without considerable injury to ourselves. Jade would be fine but I'm pretty sure we would be forever banging our heads on the way in and out. So after a quick phone call to the vets to see if she would be able to walk up and down a 5" step instead of jumping, the vet agreed that, so long as we made her go up slowly and kept her on a lead, no harm would come to her back. Within 1 hour Ian had measured, cut, glued and finished 3 box steps and after placing them in position at the back of the boat, confirmed that they would do the job nicely. Now all we need is for me to fetch Jade back from Christines and for her to try it out. 

It's amazing what one does for our pets!!

 

I also mentioned yesterday about the appalling smell of rotting fish by Sandiacre lock. Well this morning Ian contacted the environment agency to see if anything was going to be done about it. A very nice lady at the end of the phone said she would send someone post haste to assess the situation. She even gave us an incident number just in case we needed to contact her again. Next week sees us back at Sandiacre to do a bit of work round the bungalow so I do hope the fish will be gone and the air smelling sweet and clean.

One very fat pigeon perched on the toll house chimney waiting for me to put out some bread