Types of canal boats: Hire Boats. Distinguished by a company name and phone number prominently painted on. They tend to be shiny and new and have multigenerational families on board. And scrape marks from the drivers’ learning curve…. Live aboard. May be moored permanently. Often showing signs of Alaska syndrome I.e. “Let’s hang on to this; it might be useful some day. Plenty of room on the roof!” Older boats look kinda funky and can show signs of disrepair. Owner…
Two milestones today: the total mileage for this trip passed 500, and we went through our 300th lock. There was no Internet where we moored yesterday, so this is going to be a two day update. Yesterday, we moved the boat down to be near Napton-on-the-Hill. This was just a few miles, so we were moored up for the day by mid morning. I walked up the hill to Napton post office, which had a good line in home baked…
Paula is allergic to something in the English autumn. We think it may be barley. As befits a country with a great tradition of beer drinking, barley is grown pretty much everywhere, and Paula’s allergies started up for the first time as we set out this morning. She is loading up on allergy pills and hoping for the best. It was sunny and windy this morning. We moved the boat a few miles today, and moored up in a lovely…
The weather forecast today said it was going to be windy as f*ck this afternoon. Well it didn’t use those exact terms, it was a bit more meteorological, but you could see what they meant. Thus prompted, we got off to an early start and got our travel for the day out of the way by the time for elevenses. That’s actually a pretty good time to stop for the day if you want to moor somewhere popular, as that…
A few days ago I wrote: In case you are wondering how her husband reacted, the original chronicle says ad virum gaudens reversa This can either mean, “She returned to her happy man,” or, “She returned to her orgasm.” Those medieval chroniclers, such jolly chaps. Nick pointed out to me that gaudens is nominative, and therefore refers to Godiva and not her husband. Thus the translation should be, “She returned happily to her husband.” However Google translate is convinced that…
Just a quick post tonight, as the usual writing time was spent entertaining. We had Howard over to dinner. We were hoping his husband Gordi could make it as well, but he hurt his back and could not make it. Hope you’re feeing better soon, Gordi. Today I dragged Paula into downtown Rugby, which she was delighted to find had lots of thrift stores (UK: charity shops). We also visited the William Webb Ellis Rugby Museum. This is a museum…