Autumn

Fishing Match left in peace


Thomas doing a Nelson he's just missing a spy glass and a patch

Hi Everyone

I don't know if its me or the weather, but today we left Anderton early even though we were under a clear blue sky and not a breath of wind there was a definite chill in the air. Also other signs are showing an early Autumn squirrels are very busy, in some areas they are on a feeding frenzy taking no notice of human activity around them, I have noticed already that the sloe berry, and blackberry are so ripe they are rotting on the bush, I believe that these are signs of a very hard winter (again) on the boat its very noticeable that the nights are getting very chilly we have had to light a few fires and that is before the end of August which is very sad.

We are now in Lyme we came in this afternoon and managed to moor 100 yards from the chippy, guess what we had for tea, its these little pleasure that you look forward too on the boat its not like at home where you can just nip out to the chippy when the mood takes you, but "by eck" they really taste better for the waiting. We should arrive at Noreen's dads tomorrow which will be a day early. Having had the new drive plate I have been extra careful though we made exceptional time today even with a stop for Diesel, Pump out and water we still made excellent progress.

Today whilst waiting to go through the Preston Brook tunnel. I noticed over on the far bank was a farm house, outside under the kitchen window were two chairs and stood on one of the chairs was a goat looking through the window, unfortunately by the time I had got my camera it had dismounted, then, when I put the camera away the goat mounted the chair again to look through the window, this happened twice more before I gave up trying to capture this phenomenon and let the goat to do its own thing.

Monday must be the new Sunday because we passed another three fishing matches, However all the anglers today were very nice and none of them hurled abuse, so I surmise that all the boats that had passed them today must have been good one who slow down and do the right thing, that makes it easier for the rest of us it only takes one bad boater to make it very unpleasant for the rest of us.

That's your lot for now

Keep smiling

Big Al

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