Saturday 19th March
Last night whilst mooring up we were informed that passage beyond Leeds would not be possible until at Wends next week. This morning I awoke with a very heart knowing after all the stoppages beak downs and irritations even through all the effort put in by all we were not going to get there on time.
However from here in Leeds we are only 4 hours away from our objective, if we would have been allowed to continue we would have made it. So even though we will not make it I consider conquering everything that was thrown at us with stoppages, fouling props, water shortages, and the ineptitude of the CRT to keep us informed of what's going on then I consider we have wonderfully well.
Arriving here at 12.00 gave Kath and John enough time to pack bags and catch a train back to Lancashire John is having an op on his foot and we wish him all the best with that job and our thanks go out again to both of them for the gracious help in getting up here.
Mike and his are staying here in Leeds with us and waiting to travel down to Castleford with us were we will split they then go south to Doncaster.
So Folks that's it we won the Battle but not the war we will now wait until Wednesday for the opening of knolstrop lock this because of dredging and repair work from the Boxing day floods when a number of boats were lost, so we cannot complain we are still afloat and the damage has to be repaired.
As I have said CRT knew this work was going on and according to the work gangs we have spoken to say that CRT were informed and if CRT had passed the correct info to us we could have saved ourselves a great deal of heart ache and returned to our home mooring until the route was clear. However they didn't and here we are only hours away from our goal at lease we now get a few days off.
God Bless every one
Buggerlugs in Leeds
Last night whilst mooring up we were informed that passage beyond Leeds would not be possible until at Wends next week. This morning I awoke with a very heart knowing after all the stoppages beak downs and irritations even through all the effort put in by all we were not going to get there on time.
However from here in Leeds we are only 4 hours away from our objective, if we would have been allowed to continue we would have made it. So even though we will not make it I consider conquering everything that was thrown at us with stoppages, fouling props, water shortages, and the ineptitude of the CRT to keep us informed of what's going on then I consider we have wonderfully well.
Arriving here at 12.00 gave Kath and John enough time to pack bags and catch a train back to Lancashire John is having an op on his foot and we wish him all the best with that job and our thanks go out again to both of them for the gracious help in getting up here.
Mike and his are staying here in Leeds with us and waiting to travel down to Castleford with us were we will split they then go south to Doncaster.
So Folks that's it we won the Battle but not the war we will now wait until Wednesday for the opening of knolstrop lock this because of dredging and repair work from the Boxing day floods when a number of boats were lost, so we cannot complain we are still afloat and the damage has to be repaired.
As I have said CRT knew this work was going on and according to the work gangs we have spoken to say that CRT were informed and if CRT had passed the correct info to us we could have saved ourselves a great deal of heart ache and returned to our home mooring until the route was clear. However they didn't and here we are only hours away from our goal at lease we now get a few days off.
God Bless every one
Buggerlugs in Leeds
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