As nice a mooring as it was here (so very quiet) it was no good, we just had to move. It was the flies you see. So many and then there were the wasps! Either we shut all the windows and doors and stay or move on. We chose the latter. It did Ian's head in trying to eradicate the beasties. All I could here was the thwack, thwack as the fly swat made contact with windows, furnishing and even me at one point! This morning then, after Ian had put a first coat of paint on the gunwales, (more anti slip from those flies sticking to the paint) we moved on.
On route, and we had a cheeky comment by another boater. "I send you my condolences" said he. Huh...what ever could he mean? We looked quizzically back at him. "You have flowers on your roof, must mean you have had a death in the family" he replied. What??? "Well only boaters that has lost someone has flowers on their roof.... don't they?" You could have knocked me down with a feather until I noticed the cheesy grin coming back from him. Not sure why he made that comment but I think I called him a cheeky sod!
Had another one of those 'near miss' moments. There had been a sound of a horn (well sounded more like a strangled cat) as we came through the bridge but not a boat in sight. So we sounded our horn (bit more beefy) and then suddenly the bow of a boat appeared. I'm assuming he must have seen us although we hadn't seen him but why didn't he slow down? It was our bridge after all, well we were already in it, so the only thing he could do was head for the far bank and go into reverse. We then had to pass on the wrong side, found the mud on the bend and the bow started to swing across to the far bank. We tried to correct the movement, to avoid the overgrowth if at all possible. Lots of forward and reverse before we managed to get ourselves sorted and thankfully not a twig, leaf or mark left on the bow.
Only travelled a mile, 1.2 to be precise and Market Bosworth came into view. Hadn't planned on stopping but every time we have travelled this canal in the past, Bosworth moorings were always full. So we stopped....'cos we could, checked TV, all good, checked to see if we had internet, which we had. This will do for tonight. One boat already there but on the water point, so we had the moorings to ourselves. Settled down to do some fishing (which was rubbish) and noticed that boat was still on the water point and no hose to be seen. This is what I call taking the P and as I posted this, they are still there!
Wildlife seen today,
6 comments:
Irene, how on earth do you manage to take a decent photo while another boater is forcing you into the mud?! ;)
best wishes
Debby
A hire boat who thinks they got ever so lucky scoring the best mooring in town?
Hi Debby, Ian was steering and I could capture the moment. I have though become rather a dab hand at taking photos while helming FS. Must be at the ready for Kingfishers and other wildlife at all times (: Xx
Agreed Tom. Maybe I should have said something but I was hoping another boater would do that for me.
Hi Ian & Irene, suspect Hire bot companies still tell them 'you can moot wherever you can get in on towpath' and fprget to tell them that Bollards are for sort term mooring only forserviceslock & lift/swing Bridges.Simple if they are told (assuming the hire companies know this)
Alan & Judith (ex nb Ebony)
Ah but Alan, when the sign says 'mooring for water point only' unless all 4 onboard couldn't read, they were being ignorant and ignoring the rules.
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