Have BW got psychic powers?

Would you beleive it? The day after I posted my pictures of the vegetation growth on the Ashby Canal I was cruising near Hinckley and what did I see? Yes, you guessed right. There was the BW mower heading south on the canal! Murphy's law or what!

Veg Pledge continued

This has gone a bit wrong. The first photo shows just around the corner. I obviously have a few problems with my blogging to sort out!

I promised that I would publish photos of the vegetation growth on the Ashby Canal. Hopefully they are here. The first one shows my 70 foot mooring, kindly trimmed by a predecessor, hopefully future moorers will continue the trend.

My second photo shows just around the corner. Bearing in mind I have two golden retrievers, the vegetation is at least twice as high as them.

The Veg Pledge

Has the veg pledge been abandoned? It certainly seems like it if you cruise the Ashby Canal. Once you turn off of the Coventry Canal at Marston Junction the vegetation seems to take over. In some places it is four or five feet high and obviously has not been cut at all this year. I suppose I really ought to take a picture and attach to my blog - maybe tomorrow!!

Luckily on the approach to hospital bend at Burton Hastings someone with a 70 footer had been here before and cut back all the vegetation, I cut back a bit more with the pair of shears I always carry. Are we all going to have to carry strimmers in the future to do BW's job for them?

All I ask is that the next boater to use this mooring does his bit of gardening.

As for the weather, it's gorgeous!

Speak to you all soon.

GUELROSE is on the move!!

Having persuaded my sister to come up and look after the parents for a few days Jenny and I have taken the opportunity to escape on GUELROSE for a few days. Obviously we picked the right weather!! We left Hopwas on Saturday 7th June and had a long day of 4.25 hours to cruise to one of our favourite moorings in the middle of nowhere between Polesworth and Bradley
Green.

The next morning was her birthday (Heinz varieties is the obvious clue) and after a cup of tea, cards and pressies in bed it was back to cruising. We took a leisurely cruise up the Atherstone 11 and then moved on to Hartshill to moor up for the night. Tomorrow will probably see us going onto the Ashby Canal and probably mooring at hospital bend in Burton Hastings, another one of our favourite moorings. Our moorings are obviously dictated to a certain extent by our two furry friends, Lewis and Alfie, a pair of hairy golden retrievers.

Once again, it is soooooooo good to be on the move again.

SZpeak to you soon