tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78467901881407680912024-03-19T09:55:17.190+00:00NB BeefurUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger319125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846790188140768091.post-2191653112548340662018-10-10T14:40:00.000+01:002018-10-10T14:40:02.817+01:00Out cruising again<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846790188140768091.post-83528634746863160302016-11-25T13:59:00.003+00:002016-11-25T14:02:50.722+00:00October 2016. Off Cruising! Hello all, after a summer of Sue working hard for Jones the Boats, at Trevor, we are off, on our winter excursion 2016, and into 2017.<br />
We have 4 planned places to be, Stourbridge in October for the rally, Stoke Golding in November for our BSS (MOT), Birmingham in December, and February, for music concerts.<br />
Cruising started on October the 3rd.<br />
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Off we go, leaving The Fron !<br />
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Then leaving Wales.<br />
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After trying out the newly refurbished Jack Mytton , and a night in Ellesmere to visit The White Hart, we arranged a meet up with great friends Richard , and Andrew at Grindley Brook.<br />
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A great night in The Horse and Jockey, with smiley faces, followed the next morning on Carpe Diem, for cracking bacon butties.<br />
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Further down the Welsh Canal we passed the working pair Mountbatten and Jellicoe, sadly no longer delivering coal and diesel. Best wishes to Jon, Hannah, and, baby Trixie.<br />
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On the Shroppie, we passed this herd on the way to milking, well behaved.<br />
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As we passed The Secret Bunker this balloon appeared, they drifted off<br />
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The famous Anchor pub at High Offley, wrong hours when we passed, so my next pub of choice, was The Royal Oak at Church Eaton, still open now, but for how much longer?<br />
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The open weekend at The Bonded Warehouse in Stourbridge, has a gathering of boats, stationary engines, vintage transport, and classic cars. It's our normal first port of call on our winter cruises.<br />
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Martin and Di's boat Uisce Beatha, they travel down each year from Leek.<br />
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Traction Engine.<br />
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The boats at the end furthest away from the Warehouse, there were about 80 this year.<br />
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Our friends Frank and Gillian on their boat Fragil. Is that an authorised RN salute?<br />
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After the weekend, we went out into the country for a few days, so that Nemo could get off Beefur for longer than 5 minutes, without a dog or cyclist hurrying him back through the cat flap. We passed this magnificent shrouded tree on the outskirts of the town.<br />
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At the bottom of the Stourton Locks we turned right and had a few days beside The Gothersley Roundhouse, and than met up again with Fragil, at what they call "the unit" ( mobile home) at a lovely spot right beside the canal, we then cruised together for a few days to Stourport.<br />
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This heron stayed perfectly still as we passed him, and then caught a fish. I missed that photo.<br />
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Another fisherman hiding in the trees.<br />
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We were very lucky with the weather during October, and the trees really were colourful.<br />
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Here is Nemo, out patrolling the towpath, this is at the end of month 1 of the big diet. More or Less later.<br />
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On our way to Stourport we passed through Kidderminster, below the church at the lock, Sue and Gillian prepare to lower Frank ( loitering) down onto the next level.<br />
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So we're now on our way back down the Shroppie towards Wolverhampton, and we're back to Midlands Today, and Shifali's weather forecast, which is more reliable than the North West Tonight ones we've been receiving. (Still not the same without Derek - although I do follow him on Twitter, so do get the odd S'Mae). We're slowly heading back to Birmingham, to meet up with Mum, and another concert in the Symphony Hall. We hope that the <a href="http://fiddleandbone.co.uk/">Fiddle & Bone [CLICK]</a> will be open by the time we get there. </div>
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From Great Haywood we retraced our route back down the Staffs & Worcester canal, through Penkridge, and took a right turn onto the Shroppie (the Shropshire Union Canal). There were storms a'comin', so we stopped outside Brewood (pronounced Brood) at the 'three mile mark' - I don't know if there is a proper name for it, but that's what we call it, as it's 3 miles from Autherley Junction, the start of the Shroppie. We figured that with the forecast high winds, we needed to take shelter for a couple of days, NOT under any trees! We stayed there for 4 days, and only saw 2 boats during that time. One was the coal boat 'Roach', and the second was Henry Hollingshead & Cetus. We had a brief conversation as he passed, but I have no idea what we were talking about, as he's that broad with his Black Country accent mixed with Old Boater speak. We were getting low on diesel, so broke cover & headed to Wheaton Aston where we filled up at 62.9p per litre - 30p per litre cheaper than the last place we bought it. <br />
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Not long after we turned onto the Shroppie, we came across this fella - a teal. Quite happy doing duck things. The very next day, a car had been 'dumped' in the canal at this very spot. Don't suppose it held up any boats though - there's no one moving at all around here.<br />
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After contacting CRT, with a picture of the mess, CRT advised us that the contractors had not been to empty the bins since before Christmas (this was on 6th Jan). This seems to be a frequent event (judging by the what we've seen on our travels - and at home up Llangollen). This necessitates CRT sending their men out to load up some of the rubbish bags into a CRT vehicle, and take it to the tip themselves. A drain on CRT resources don't you think? If the contractors aren't fulfilling their contract to collect rubbish - then get another contractor in who will stick to their promises & dispose of the rubbish! It's not the fault of the local CRT Team - but they are the ones that have to clear up the mess. Rant over (for now).</div>
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There was a boat moving at Wheaton Aston - the first one we had seen in a weeek. They were coming down the lock, and we were going up. Turns out they were from Wrexham! What are the chances of that! Oh- and we passed <a href="http://nbarmadillo.blogspot.co.uk/">NB Armadillo</a> in Norbury, with just time to shout a quick Hello.</div>
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Now, I've never seen this before - no one - not one boat, at Brewood moorings!</div>
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It looks fantastic, and the food is as good as ever. Sam the owner was very excited and proud of it!</div>
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After a couple of days in Brewood, we retreated to the safety of the 'three mile mark' again, and sat out the next storm. Turned (again), and headed north, back up the Shroppie (are you keeping up?)</div>
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We took advantage of the 'lul' in the weather, and kept heading north, up the Shroppie. We have a couple of weeks in which to hang around and do very little, so we thought we'd head for Audlem, as the weather forecast was again looking very bleak, with a few days of ice looming, so if we were going to be frozen in anywhere, Audlem seemed a nice place in which to be stuck.<br />
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With all the winter stoppages 'on hold' over the Christmas two weeks, we made the decision to go and see Paul (best man), and catch up with friends in Stone. We set off from Penkridge breaking ice as we went, it was quite thick in places, but the temperature was warming, so we figured that it could only get better. We stopped at the services to do the necessary, but had to de-ice the water tap first. While we were waiting, a boat came past us - horah! Turns out they were heading to Stone and 'had to get there as they were booked in for blacking' Fantastic! We'll follow you then! We followed them as far as Great Haywood, and decided to call it a day. Even with the boat in front carving a path through the ice, it made for heavy going. It's just as well they did keep going after Great Haywood, as the next day we were well and truly stuck in the ice. I don't know if they did make it to Stone for blacking before they were iced in - but I doubt that they did. </div>
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We had several attempts to move, but retreated back. On the third day (New Years Eve) our luck was in (so we thought) when a boat came past us, heading for Stone, smashing his way through the ice. So we took our chance and followed. Unfortunately for us, he turned into the marina! So we were left to smash our way through the ice towards Hoo Mill lock. We didn't get very far, and came to a grinding halt, on a bend after only a few yards. The bloke on the boat who had turned into the marina was also stuck, he just cleared the entrance to the marina, but the ice was too thick for him to get to his mooring. We then turned in the entrance of the marina, and again retreated to our mooring spot in Great Haywood. So, we never did get to Stone. We had a pint early doors in the Clifford Arms, then turned round and retraced our route back to Penkridge. It wasn't too bad though - we had a delicious game pie for dinner, with a bottle of Chateauneuf Du Pape.</div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846790188140768091.post-1503951822852440032015-01-08T16:57:00.000+00:002015-01-08T16:57:00.470+00:00Christmas in ChirkWe left the boat in Penkridge for a couple of days over Christmas - which was the main reason I didn't want to blog at that time - I didn't want to advertise the fact that the boat was unoccupied. We had planned to get the train from Penkridge, and to get a taxi to take Nemo to a cattery not far away. However, after wrapping up the christmas presents, they took up a suitcase on their own, so that idea was scrapped and we got a hire car instead. This meant that we could keep Mum busy by taking a load of bedding to be washed. (She was thrilled). Now we had the hire car (delivered to the Cross Keys car park), Dave ordered a polypin of Stonehouse Sunlander for his delectation over the next few days, which we picked up in Oswestry on the way. Although there were a few people drinking it, we still had some left, so brought it back to the boat. Having the car in Chirk also allowed us to go and visit friends - which included Jeanette and Allen in the Butchers Wern, as it was Allen's 50th birthday - ha! join the club! Dave also met up with Dai for a pint in the Aki (Aqueduct). Rick and Hazel had by this pint, ran away to a cabin in the woods for Christmas!<br />
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Rachel, Bruno and girls didn't exactly have the Christmas they had planned. Every year they go skiing, unfortunately this year there was no snow. So they drove half way across France, to discover that the ski lifts were not in operation, no lift passes were even being issued, as there was still no snow, so they had a couple of nights in a b & b, turned round, and headed for Chirk. Mum had a phone call on 23rd: "how big is the turkey?" Very disapointing for them that their holiday was in effect cancelled, but we were delighted to have their company over Christmas. It's been a very long time since we were all together at this time of year. So that made it 13 for dinner: Mum & Tony, Me & Dave, Rachel & Bruno, and their three girls, Rhiannon, Iona and Nia, Bethan, Adrian, Adrian's Mum, and Bethan's son Robert, who had come up from London to spend Christmas dinner with his Nan - what a star!</div>
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The sunlander beer survived Christmas, and was kept cool in the cratch. It says on the box 'best before 10/01/15' Oh, I think we can manage that.</div>
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We didn't think we would be able to get into Birmingham by boat this year for the Jools concert, and were just about to book a hotel room, when it was announced that the stoppage at Farmers Bridge locks had completed two weeks earlier than planned. This allowed boat traffic into Birmingham, Where as for the weeks before, all routes in had been blocked with all manner of stoppages. There had been alot of 'discussions' on social media about Birmingham being closed to boats, so CRT concentrated their efforts in resolving the works on the lock flight, so opening up a route in. Thank you very much!<br />
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No visit to Birmingham would be complete without a visit to The Wellie. 16 real ales on hand pumps, together with 6 ciders on hand pulls. There are so many beers, that they are listed on screens around the pub, so you look at the screen, see what you fancy, and order a pint by number. As well as excellent beer, although they don't serve food, you are welcome to take your own food in, and they will provide crockery, cutlery and condiments. Dave was in heaven! A quick walk down to New Street Station Cornish Pasty Shop, then back up to the Wellie. Bliss!</div>
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Another major stoppage was at Coseley tunnel, on the Main Line between Birmingham and Wolverhampton. There had been major landslips over the last couple of years which had blocked the towpath completely. The works were (are) scheduled to take place between November to March, BUT with a two week opening over Christmas. So we were able to go straight through on the main line and on to Wolverhampton, rather than making a detour round the Wyrley & Essington Canal, which in hindsight we should have done, as we've never been that way before.</div>
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Lunch in the Corn Mill Llangollen: L-R: Me, Mike, Trish, Phil, Carol, Margaret and John</div>
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Further along the canal in Chirk Bank, was this sunken boat. This boat arrived up our way at Froncysyllte late July/early August, moored for weeks on the 48 hour moorings. It was around this time that a couple of boats had their outboard motor stolen. On the second theft, the police were called to this boat, and one of the motors was retrieved. The bloke who owned (or not owned) this boat then disappeared. Now I must point out here that I'm not accusing anyone of anything, just stating the facts. I don't know what happened to the bloke, whether he did a runner, or is being held 'at her majesties pleasure'. When we left to go on our travels in September, the boat had drifted to near Chirk tunnel, after being cast adrift many many times over the weeks. Whenever it came adrift, someone would stop and tie it up, only for it to become free a few days later. By December, it had drifted through the tunnel (before it was blocked off!), across Chirk Aqueduct, and retied at Chirk Bank, where it now lies submerged. I did notice that it finally has a 'Patrol Notice' pinned to it - for all the good that will do. So thanks pal, now CRT will incur charges to have it removed from the water. Perhaps CRT should contact the local constabulary to ascertain his whereabouts, and try to recoup the cost.</div>
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Thank you for reading this blog throughout 2014, and I hope to keep up to date a bit better in 2015.<br />
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After having a lovely couple of weeks in Spain, it was back to the boat and some cruising. We wanted to get into Birmingham for a Jools Holland concert in the Symphony Hall, and had a different to our 'usual' route, as there was a stoppage on the Worcester & Birmingham canal. So from Brinklow, we went through Rugby, on to Braunston (where incidentaly, we caught up with <a href="http://narrowboater.blogspot.co.uk/">Maffi)</a> then a right turn at Napton (with a cheeky visit to the Folly) onto the Grand Union, through Leamington Spa and Warwick, with a chance to visit Rachel in Kenilworth for a couple of days, and a shopping trip with Mum to Leamington. Then up the Hatton flight of locks, through Knowle and Solihull, down the Camp Hill locks, (which have a bit of a bad reputation, but more of that later), then across the Digbeth branch and up the Ashtead locks, and then up the Farmers Bridge flight of locks into Birmingham centre. I thought I'd include a couple of maps to explain our route a bit better, so (Mum) you can see where we've been. Sorry about the poor quality, but it's the best I could do - for some reason the better quality images kept coming up upside down, and try as I might, I could not get them to come up the right way round! <br />
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Along the Hatton flight, out of Warwick towards Birmingham, this is "Ugly Bridge"!</div>
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Oh heck - that's alot of locks - 21 of them, large double width.</div>
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The lovely sculpture outside the CRT offices at Hatton</div>
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We passed NB <a href="http://noproblem.org.uk/blog/">No Problem</a> weighted down with wood. </div>
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No one aboard, as they were on a cruise at the time on a substantially bigger boat!</div>
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A reminder of the Aki pub in Fron, that same yellow colour, visible for miles!</div>
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We had made good progress along the Grand Union section into Birmingham, and all was going well, until we came to the last pound, between locks 5 and 6, and were met with this........</div>
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No water! There was no way a boat could travel through that little puddle. However, when I walked onto the next lock, I could see that someone had left a ground paddle up, which had completely drained the pound. I closed the paddle, so all we had to do was send down some water from the top of the flight - ensuring we didnt flood any of the other pounds on the way down.</div>
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After descending the 6 Camp Hill locks, there's a sharp right hand turn at Typhoo Basin, and you ascend 6 locks along the Digbeth Branch. Not the most salubrious of areas I can say! These 6 locks were a doddle, as whoever descended the locks prior to our arrival, had left every bottom gate open, so we could go straight into the lock. Fine, for us going up the locks, not so great if you were coming down the locks, as it involves alot more work to set each one in your favour.</div>
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With five locks to go, my knees were feeling the strain of already having done 20 locks, together with Knowle and Hatton flights over the previous days, so when this chap appeared, whipped out a windlass from his back pack, and started lifting paddles and opening gates - I could have kissed him! He says he does a bit of volunteering for CRT, but likes nothing more than going for a walk along the canal & doing a bit of lock keeping. </div>
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And so into Birmingham - but that's the next blog!</div>
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Wine tasting, as you do.....</div>
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Me with my new purchase - a fantastic leather bag. Bought at half the price the bloke at the market was selling it for originally, thanks entirely to Andy's negotiating skills, and fluent Spanish!</div>
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Flamingos!!! Who'd have thought! This is on our way to Calpe, for a final fling before we left the following day. </div>
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In every supermarket, there were stands and stands of these hams. </div>
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I did try to make them when we came back here (pork meat balls in a chorizo & tomato sauce), but they didn't taste a patch on Andy's.</div>
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I'm going to have to eat it - it's got my name on it.</div>
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On to the fish restaurants in Calpe, which were amazing. They displayed their 'dishes' raw, in a chiller cabinet, you then browsed the raw dishes, picked the one you wanted, they then took it away and cooked it.</div>
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Dave and I were tempted by this massive tray of prawns, langustines and other beasties, </div>
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I think Dave's face says it all.</div>
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Boy, was it good! </div>
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Look at the size of that fish!</div>
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And finally, this pic is taken in Calpe, where coincidentally, our next door boat neighbours, Rick & Hazel spent their holiday climbing the bit of rock in the background!<br />
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And that, my friends was our holiday in pictures. A memorable 50th birthday I'm sure you'll agree. Back to the real world now, well, not really the 'real' world, but the boaty world of Sue & Dave, so back to boating blogging.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846790188140768091.post-84736264824655450992014-12-11T16:06:00.002+00:002014-12-11T16:06:38.617+00:00Spain - Part TwoMore photos, the next few are in the old town of Javea......<br />
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Relaxing by the pool!</div>
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This house is for sale - if you've got 1.8 million euros spare</div>
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Andy, Me & Rich. We had lunch in the restaurant behind us</div>
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Up into the mountains to Guadalest</div>
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Views from the top at Guadalest</div>
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The number of high rise towers here was staggering. Quite a culture shock after staying in Javea, where planning restrictions since the 1970's banned the building of anything more than 4 storeys high.</div>
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Montgo's got his hat on today</div>
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here, with a scarf on.</div>
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Looking down from the port at the avenue of bars</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846790188140768091.post-17821886042656608392014-12-09T23:56:00.001+00:002014-12-09T23:56:28.803+00:00Spain - Part OneWe've been back from our holiday in Spain for over 10 days now, but we just haven't had a decent enough signal to put up the holiday pics (sorry Mum), that is despite 'upgrading' the dongle. Hey ho, never mind, we're up and running now.<br />
I did say that I would bore you with loads of photos from Spain, so here goes.....<br />
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So, on a rainy Friday morning we boarded our plane, me wearing my badge of honour.</div>
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From dull and dreary, to this........</div>
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That's more like it!</div>
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Hello Javea (or Xabia), and hello to Andy and Richard.</div>
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fantastic views of Montgo and Javea</div>
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Looking down on the town and the bay.</div>
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this one is quite a beauty</div>
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the boat - that is!</div>
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Although I feel this is more to my budget</div>
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At last - a boat I can afford!</div>
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Richard and myself looking rather merry!</div>
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Mellowing now!</div>
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Javea Port with Montgo in the background</div>
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We certainly had some feasts over there - this is a little snack Andy rustled up...</div>
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Javea church, which was as spectacular inside as it is outside. The ceiling inside is all made of wood, shaped to look like the inside of a hull of a boat. I didn't like to take a photo inside.</div>
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Beautiful skies and sandy beaches, and yes - people were swimming in the sea it was that warm.</div>
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Montgo, picture taken from the balcony</div>
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old windmills on the brow of the hill, now converted to dwellings</div>
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Another wonderful Andy & Richard meal.</div>
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I certainly had a fabulous and memorable 50th birthday.</div>
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I'll bore you stupid with photo's from our holiday, when we come back! Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846790188140768091.post-37563464003172385072014-10-31T18:19:00.000+00:002014-11-01T18:48:48.693+00:00RecyclingAh, recycling. People half heartedly recycling is my second biggest hate (first hate of course is dog poo - don't get me started on that one!). Recycling is not easy on a boat, due to the confined space. There's no room to store all the recycling, as recycling points on the canal are few and far between. We usually end up walking miles with a trolly dolly full of <strike>empty bottles</strike> glass jars, rattling away as we try and find a supermarket with recycling bins. So after lugging the recycling round the country, you arrive at a CRT office which has a recycling facility (Fazeley), feeling righteous that you've saved a little bit of rubbish going into landfill, and relived that you're going to gain a bit more space on the front deck - but you are met with overflowing bins, and of course, people who just lift a lid and shove anything in there. I would have liked CRT to be a bit more proactive here, and get the bins emptied in anticipation of a busy half term, good weather period.<br />
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Now at Fazeley, there are six, yes six large wheely bin thingies purely for rubbish - so why do people - sorry boaters - as it can only be boater's using these bins - try and ram another full bag of rubbish into an already full bin, when there are three completely EMPTY bins four paces away.</div>
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Now, when a recycling bin says "glass only", it means that only glass goes in there - not a black bin bag full of glass. Why is that concept so difficult for people to grasp? Once plastic goes into a glass recycling bin, then whole bin is contaminated and is usually scrapped and the whole lot put into landfill - unless someone goes through each bin and sorts it out before the "bin men" come and take it away. Now I can't see the CRT office staff doing that - nor do I want them to - I'd much rather they do the job they're supposed to do - like sort out the canal system!</div>
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This black bin bag was in the paper recycling bin. Now why would someone put a plastic bag in there? It may contain paper recycling, but that's irrelevant as the whole skip will probably be put into landfill, as again, it is 'contaminated'.</div>
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Again, Dave cleaned it, as he tends to do. However, you do expect the elsan point at the CRT offices to be a bit cleaner than the norm.</div>
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So, for those of you who were thinking I've mellowed (significant birthday looming) with fluffy posts of boat rallies and birthdays - I haven't! Rant over.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7846790188140768091.post-6394578244222260042014-10-30T17:41:00.000+00:002014-10-30T17:41:13.667+00:00Rhiannon's 18th Birthday After the Stourbridge boat rally, we decided to go the long way round to Rugby/Braunston, rather than go through the centre of Birmingham, so as to give Nemo cat a bit of countryside after hurdy gurdys and steam traction engines belting out noise from the festival weekend. It also meant that I could get a train from Penkridge to my sister Rachel's for a couple of days, and to celebrate her eldest daughter Rhiannon's 18th birthday family dinner. No apologies for all the pics posted here, it's so family and friends who are not on facebook can see them (hello Mum!).<br />
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The birthday girl, with my other sister Bethan's eldest, Robert</div>
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Nephew and nieces together. L-R Nia, Rob, Rhiannon, Nel, and Iona</div>
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Bruno's parents and his sister made the epic drive from Glasgow, which due to the traffic on the start of half term holidays took 7 hours.</div>
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Good old Rachel - always comes up with a good cake!</div>
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Assunta (Bruno's Mum) and my sister Bethan</div>
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Not a great photo I admit - Nell, you're looking a bit startled there!</div>
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That's a bit better... L-R Nell, Rob, Bruno, Mum and Tony</div>
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Rachel, decorating the room for the party dinner in the Almanack in Kenilworth</div>
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Youngest niece Iona</div>
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Tony, Iona (Rachel's no.3) Mum, Nia (Rachel's no.2) and my younger sister Rachel</div>
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Nia and Iona</div>
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Nieces and Nephew again: Nell, Nia, Iona, Rhiannon & Rob</div>
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Rachel's three girls</div>
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The compulsory eating shots.....</div>
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My present was on it's way - a Marilyn Manson hoody (whoever she is). </div>
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We all had a lovely night, thanks to Rachel for organising it. No mean feat when we all live in different parts of the country. It was lovely to see everybody. Rhiannon is having another party this weekend for all her friends - a Halloween party. Rachel & Bruno will be on duty guarding the house!</div>
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Here we have Leo and Scorpio arriving.</div>
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Boats of every size and shape......</div>
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Bellatrix on the move</div>
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That's us! In the number 2 slot, outside NB White Locks, next to the Harbour Masters. </div>
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I don't know what we've done to deserve such a prime mooring, but we're very grateful!</div>
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The BCNS stall</div>
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Dave doing a stint on gate duty</div>
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And that was that done for another year. Met up with lots of friends we haven't seen for a while, some who came by boat, and others by car. Dave is, as I write this, busy helping to dismantle the BCNS stall. All is now quiet, no steam whistles, no running engines, and Nemo cat has come out from under the covers!</div>
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No visit to Stourbridge would be complete without a visit to the Royal Exchange, </div>
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a proper pub, with a proper bar, serving proper beer - Batham's. Dave's favourite pub in the country!</div>
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Fountains trimming back overhanging trees on the Stourbridge Arm. </div>
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CRT were working up the arm too, for a couple of days. We later found out that Richard Parry was due to visit - which puts a dent in the argument of the whole area being overgrown.</div>
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Joe at the helm of Nansen, with Colin Cartwright in the bushes</div>
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Barrie Johnson & Mike Rolf lost in the undergrowth</div>
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A full day of cutting back ensured that there was plenty of room for the visiting boats - without anyone loosing chimneys from the roof!</div>
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Frank and Gill suggested we join them for the Staffs & Worc canal society autumn cruise to the Fen's Branch / Stourbridge Extension Canal, and as we are members, we decided - why not!<br />
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Interestingly shaped weed.</div>
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Unfortunately, the weekend itself didn't start off very well - we were in a convoy of 4 boats heading down the Delph locks. NB Compromise was first down, but they got something round their prop near the bottom of the flight. Nothing major, and by the time we got to the bottom, they had cleared it, and started off behind us, now boat number 3 in the flotilla, with Frank and Gill leading the way. Within half a mile, they had disappeared from view, eventually appearing being towed by Edwin NB Ferrous. Again, they had something round the prop, this time however, it was a bit more serious. They limped into the mooring area and commenced the two hour operation of extracting the huge double mattress, the springs of which had become entangled in the propeller. Everyone present contributed their various prop clearing equipment, and manpower to try and remove this obstruction. The mattress was free on one side, but not on the other, so NB Compromise was poled to the other side of the canal, and the process began again, of trying to free the other side. It was at this point that Andrew Denny (NB Granny Buttons) from Waterways World appeared with his camera, and captured the freeing of the mattress. He had come to speak to Chris Dyche and/or Ann Pollard from the Staffs & Worcestershire Canal Society about the cruising of this relatively uncruised bit of canal, with the angle of "Cruise it or loose it" for an article in Waterways World. Well, he got a story all right! With some telling photographs. <br />
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After all this hoo ha with the mattress, Derek and Mary from NB Compromise then laid on a lavish spread of pork butties with loads of accompaniments and puddings (thanks also to Ann NB Sunbeam), damson gin and wine. We had a great evening, and were made to feel very welcome (not having attended one of the S&W's cruises before, we didn't know what the event entailed). There were only six boats who ventured up here, but hopefully next time there will be more. </div>
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During the weekend, Dave set about clearing up the mooring area which was completely overgrown. Apparently, the area was tidied up by BW back in 2004. New edgings constructed, new mooring rings installed, and a fancy metal fence was erected to make it more secure. However, nothing seems to have been done since, and it appears to have been forgotten by CRT completely. Nothing has been cut back or cared for, for years. After a few hours digging and strimming the area was transformed. You could now even see the mooring rings.</div>
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We shall definitely be visiting this little oasis again - if only to clear it up a bit more, as Dave ran out of strimmer thread! This is what one man achieved with a shovel over two days. I wonder what Fountains could do in an hour with all their equipment ..............</div>
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Dave was in heaven - he found that the X96 bus went from the "showground" to outside the Royal Exchange in Stourbridge. Landlord John was pleased to see him - and ordered an extra barrel of Bathams, ready for the Stourbridge rally in a couple of weeks.</div>
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Back to Park Head - the beer on offer in the beer tent was brewed at Ma Pardoes and included a barrel specially brewed for the festival.</div>
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Altogether a fabulous weekend.</div>
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Fantastic birthday cake - depicting Jeanette & Allen's four dogs</div>
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School friends together: Me, Jeanette and Mandi</div>
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Pete (Mandi's better 'alf), Me & Jeanette</div>
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More school pals: Mandi, Tina & Jenny </div>
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(both of whom I hadn't seen for 30 years, but look exactly the same)</div>
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Thanks to the Volunteers in the Trevor Visitor Centre for the nice send off - with cakes, lovely.<br />
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It has been a very busy year in the Visitor Centre. Numbers were up again on last year. Throughout August we had over 7,700 people through the door, that's an average of 248 per day. If I just had a pound for every time I pronounced "Pontcysyllte" I'd be a very rich woman. <br />
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I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for the comments about the blog, and thank you to all the many strangers who have shouted out to us on the way, along the lines "why aren't you blogging". I didn't realise so many people actually read my rambling drivel. Hello to the man on NB Centurion, who called out at a lock (once he saw the boat) "hey, you're the b*****r". "I beg your pardon" I replied, quite surprised - had I met this man before and had upset him in some way? "The blogger - you're the blogger!" Ah, blogger, yes, blogger! Hello to the nice lady who used to have the NB Elizabeth who I spoke to at the Visitor Centre a couple of times (sorry, I didn't take your name). Yes - I'm blogging again! Also a big hello to the Volunteers at the Visitor Centre (Hi Carol, hope you got the link).<br />
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It was a bit of a wrench to leave our moorings, as it's such a beautiful part of the world, but once we were under way, all doubts disappeared, what a wonderful couple of weeks it's been for cruising. It does take us a bit longer than usual to get off the Llangollen Canal (like a week!), as we like to catch up with friends along the way - especially Andy and Richard at Grindley Brook, who have just returned from an epic trip to London and Manchester on their NB Carpe Diem, and with Buffy of course <a href="http://www.buffyrobinson.co.uk/">(click here for a link to Buffy's wonderful batik work)</a><br />
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There has been so many boats on the move over the last week, when we passed Viking at Whitchurch, and ABC at Wrenbury Mill, there wasn't one hire boat moored between them - they were all out.</div>
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What a way to start a day! I was just opening up in the Information Centre, when Buckden and Saturn arrived in Trevor Basin. The plan was to see if they would both get into the 'wet' dock (as opposed to the Anglo Welsh dry dock next door). CRT plan to repair the walls between the two docks, and hopefully put it to good use.</div>
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This is the first time anyone can remember that two boats have been in the dock together - let's hope it's not the last, and the much awaited repairs are carried out to accommodate visiting boats such as these.</div>
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We're both back in work, Dave at Chirk Marina, but only for 3 days a week, and I'm back at the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct Information Centre in Trevor Basin, working 5 days a week. It's been extremely busy I can tell you! Visitor numbers increase year on year, and this Spring Bank Holiday last week was the busiest weekend we've ever had over there. I wish I had a pound for every time I had to say "Pontcysyllte" (Pont-ker-sulth-tay for those who can't master the double LL sound). Oh, and we've been on holiday to Aberdaron for a week - yes I know we've only just come back from our 6 month holiday - but a trip to the seaside is a must for us, at least once a year. We also dragged Carole from NB Strider along with us, and Peaches the dog of course. Nemo was confined to the cattery for the week & boy was he glad to see us when we went to pick him up. "Rather vocal your cat, isn't he" said the cattery owner. I'll leave it there for now, I've got some wonderful pics of Buckden & Saturn in the 'wet' dock in Trevor Basin, but that's for next time.....<br />
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The locks to go down into Chester basin are a staircase of 3 - and all pretty deep. We had a swop around, and Dave did the locks whilst I stayed on the boat. I'd rather Dave control the paddles, and which chamber has to be full or empty - in case I get it wrong. Pretty scary though - looking up at the lock gates holding back thousands of gallons of water!</div>
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Approaching the Mill</div>
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Locks up ahead, although this part of the towpath was closed to pedestrians...</div>
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... as they repaired a section of wall which had fallen down.</div>
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View from the top of the walls</div>
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Great sightseeing bus</div>
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lots of real ale pubs</div>
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and a proper job pasty shop! It'll be hard to drag Dave away.</div>
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Chester Cathedral</div>
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The new apartment blocks were still under construction the last time we visited, now most are occupied. Apparently, there will be a new CRT service block sited on the right, by the new apartments.</div>
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We took the last available mooring in Chester Basin, the boat who came down behind us just moored on the water point - and left it for the weekend! The boats have been here for a while, judging by the boater's rubbish in the litter bins. When we were preparing to leave, we saw the CRT boat checker man doing his rounds. He told me that there were a few boats there with winter moorings - on the few available moorings in the basin. Why? There's not that many moorings available anyway - even less with two 70ft CRT boats moored and a large gap left "for maintenance craft only".<br />
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We had a lovely few days wondering round the city, we met up with Bethan for a meal, then Mum and Tony came for a visit. The weather was lovely, and really warm. Dave did his best to visit the real ale pubs, but didn't manage to get round them all! Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0