Formerly Unpublished Blog Post
It’s a thrill-a-minute life on the cut, if by thrill-a-minute you mean that something out of the ordinary happens every few days. This morning’s excitement was a blocked lock gate, the second in a flight of fifteen. By the time we got to the top of the flight, the Canal and River Trust had been summoned, and their man in a van set to work with a giant extendible rake, closely monitored by the skippers of the three or four…