Back on the canal

Bye Thomas

Thomas was collected on Saturday Now we are back to being “Normal” as I have said before having Thomas is great I can revert to being 6 again, Play Lego, make paper aeroplanes, go fishing for crayfish, make dens, fight imaginary baddies, all the things the doctors say are bad for you, but hey I feel great having done it all. He will be back in again in a few weeks this time though we will be on the move, as he now can start the engine and knows his way around the boat and boating matters its time he started with Navigation and helmsmenship.

Today we joined the main canal system at the junction with the Northampton Arm and the Grand Union, its strange but even though the rivers are wider, deeper with little traffic, the canal seems quieter and calmer. We seem more at hope on the canal

John and Kath are now back with us and tomorrow we do 13 locks and the Braunston tunnel, it’s the only tunnel I know that is two way, Most have either a time to enter some even have Traffic lights, but a two way tunnel is something different, to see a boat coming towards you in a tunnel only just wide enough to take two boats, inches to spare on each side is to say the least exciting.

                                     

Speak soon

Paper Planes

fishing for greedy Perch

4 hours of  inventing lego cars

They got bigger and bigger