What a dashed inconvenience we are to society, we solo animals. Lift-bridges, eh? Simples. Hove up, a member of the crew runs off the boat and across the bridge, winds it up out of the way and then one of whomsoever is left aboard takes the boat through, the aforementioned running crew-member then winds the…
Month: August 2017
Good morning Mr Sunshine, Messrs Geese, and the Spiders from Mars #offgrid #narrowboat #England
I was, perhaps, a little unkind to this wee stretch of canal in my previous post – and I think that it has taken the huff. This morning as the sparrows were all coughing their first cough of the day and queuing for the bathroom the landscape showed me what it can do. Then it…
A mouse in the rat race #England #narrowboat #offgrid
It is difficult to believe but I think that I have moored on a very hum-drum, ho-hum, wholly humble stretch of the Llangollen Canal. If I didn’t know better (and I don’t) then I’d say that this is a stretch built merely with the intention of joining together two other parts of the canal. Oh,…
The old classics – and a word or two from Mr Dog #narrowboat #england #llangollen
Today is Day Three of the Ellesmere festival of something or other. All weekend there have been day-trip boats chugging up and down the canal laden with land-lubber folk looking slightly sea-sick. Yesterday the tiniest of tiny (rowing boat size) steam-powered boats huffed past, with a couple on-board, it has to be said, who looked…
Setting fire to Wales, it is, one embankment at a time #steam #railway #llangollen
One of the rewards at the end of the Llangollen Canal, if rewards there need be, is the Llangollen Steam Railway. Trains that run on boiled water! Well, if truth be told they run on tracks, but it’s the over-excited H2uh-oh that moves them along. Tap water usually, not Perrier. Perrier gives the engine the…
