The Middle Of Nowhere To Whitehouses, 2 Tunnels And 1 Aqueduct.

A chainsaw and lambs kind of day.

 The morning started with an hours worth of chainsawing to clear some of our windfalls from the roof, we do this regularly just in case the government decide to tax these as well.

Then, there was the strangest of things, on the way to this lock there was a boat moored alongside the bank, we both saw it, i saw it twice as we meandered around the bends. It was a light green colour with a deep coloured cratch. 

I/we don't really know what happened but....... it disappeared!..... there was no boat either in front of us or going past us, the lock was at the end of a half mile straight and was empty of water when we arrived.

This is just plain weird! 

  

The over falls are quite something at the moment as the canal is as full as it is going to get.

I thought I would put this picture up as these boats have been here since the beginning of November that I know about. This is not an allocated winter mooring but a bona fide water point.

Where is the little man with the moustache now? 

He has been around turfing boats out of the arm at Ellesmere recently but I suppose this might be that little bit too far to drive/walk for him.
This is just a couple of the many boats that are still holed up in this area, one rule for one..... another for the rest of us.

The man in the water here is doing an heroic job of lining the front edge of those cages with a slate type material and he is doing it in the fashion of a dry stone wall. It is then back filled with hardcore and topped off with lovely mud.......nice.

 

Hire boat alert!.... Hire boat alert!

Call me cynical if you must, but what is the point of hiring a narrow boat on the Llangollen - or any other canal come to that - and tying it up to the bank outside of the pub by eleven o'clock?

These boats are not cheap to hire and it just seems such an awful waste to me.

Well, we are now back in Wales and have moored opposite a field full of baaing lambs,

O for the silence of those lambs.

Until next time.........................

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