Flouting the rules!

So it seems that sticking to the rules by 'Staying at home' and 'Only essential travel allowed' does NOT apply to everybody! It really pee'd us both off to see three boats leaving their moorings (one yesterday and two today) because they were fed up with staying here at Langley Mill. What is it about these morons that think the rules do not apply to them! We came across two of the boats at Eastwood lock, they had just exited and were on their way before I could say something that I may have regretted later! Not that it would have made any difference because if C&RT can turn a blind eye, what hope do we have in trying to make them change their minds. We happened to meet a C&RT guy and the first thing I asked, did he say anything to those boaters. His reply was I don't get paid enough to be confrontational!!! Really???? If that's the attitude of authority then maybe we should all flout the rules!

 

VE day today and we are going to have our own celebration with Jim and Jenn from Dire Straits. Seems that celebrations can happen so long as the social distancing is observed so each of us is bringing our chairs, tables, wine and nibbles and Karen from the bungalow has kindly offered her garden for us to sit in. Could be a drunken afternoon!

Quite bizarre really that here we are celebrating the WW2 anniversary of VE Day and a WW1 number 34 MK 3 hand grenade was brought up from the depths of the Erewash near to Gallows Inn by a chap magnet fishing. To read all about it see this report from Derbyshire Live Turned out to be a live grenade and had to be detonated by the bomb squad.

We have cygnets! Unfortunately not from our swan but from the pair below Langley Bridge lock. 6 tiny and adorable babies.