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Pete and Val celebrating
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We spent the first part of
Saturday morning ferrying bags of coal from the car to the boat. We are rather hoping these may be the last
bags before next winter, but there’s still March and April to go so the chances
are we will get a fair few more frosty nights and wintry days before then.
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The
coal lady
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We then went for a nose
along the lane where the marquee was erected and noticed the wedding had given
the farmer an excuse to fill the potholes in the lane.
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The entrance – we would
have gone in but for Buddy
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As the marquee was backing
onto the canal, Karen was secretly hoping they would come down to the canalside
for pictures.
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You can see our boat in
the background here – prime viewing position
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We’re not sure why but we
completely missed the bride arriving – we think she must have arrived after the
England-Scotland game kicked off.
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Wedding breakfast in full
swing – I wonder how many rued the chosen date because of the rugby
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On Saturday evening we
drove down to Kent. Our good friend Val
had arranged a surprise 80th birthday party for her Husband, Pete. We had a great evening and he was overwhelmed
with the turnout from his family and friends.
We didn’t get home until 3.00 am which is really late for us - just as we walked over the lock, the lights on the wedding marquee went out so the celebrations must have gone on pretty late there too.
On Sunday morning we set
the slow cooker going to roast a chicken and then went for a bike ride along
the towpath to Preston Bagot. We took it
easy and deliberately didn’t go too far as it was Karen’s first time on her
bike this year. The mud in places was
really thick so it was difficult going anyway which didn’t help the potential
impact on unused muscles. Even though it
was another mild day we still didn’t see any butterflies but we did see our
first lambs. The lambs were quite big so
we were surprised we hadn’t noticed them before.
Later in the afternoon we
reversed back up the lock to the water point for our weekly water top up.
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Getting ready to close the
bottom gate
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Karen reversing out of the
lock
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It was a lovely late
afternoon and it made us both realise how much we are really looking forward to
having a good cruise once the locks reopen and we can get on our way again.
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Buddy getting a good brush
whilst we filled up with water - he had got really muddy during the morning bike ride
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