Yesterday was one of those days when tempers got frayed and yet again it was said “ its time to get off of this boat…” I wont bore you with the details but suffice to say Paul lost his rag and shouted a lot then took himself off for a long walk.
We had left Hinckley in the dry and made Sutton Wharf where we spent the night. Our coal situation was getting a bit dire so Betty rang a local coal merchant and he delivered some to us at the wharf with no delivery charge, how good is that.
This morning yet again it was windy and wet but the weatherman said it would be dry by lunch time, at 11.30 we set off for Market Bosworth. As we were passing the battlefield moorings there was a hire boat whose stern pin had pulled out, as Graham went slowly past the front pin also came out so the boat ended up on the opposite bank. We both stopped and with the help of another boater managed to get the boat secured. We can just imagine the peoples faces when they returned to find the centre and stern ropes on one pin (the other one was lost in the watery depths) and the front rope tied to a tree with the mop off of the roof attached to it so people didn't walk into it. Paul was all for tying the boat up on the offside but I convinced him that it was a bit mean.
While on our travels up the Ashby we have seen a few water voles this little fellow was at Hinckley opposite the moorings.
It is nice to see them as they are so cute.
So now we are at Market Bosworth, it has been raining since we got here, the tow path is a mud bath and we aren't moving till Tuesday.
Paul has been fishing almost every day since we left Braunston and the big question is where the hell are all the fish. Graham has also been fishing a lot on his travels and they just cant understand why there is such a shortage of fish. It is not for the want of trying, all different concoctions of baits have been used with not even the slightest bite. Now one asks the question is it the weather or the environment that has depleted the stocks. It is known that over the last few months BW have been moving fish from low water areas to canals without the drought problem. So from Braunston to where we are which is not in a low water area how come there are no fish. The boys also noted that not many fisherman have been seen on bankside do they know something we don't? Has any one else encountered this unusual occurrence?
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Oh please don't be so hard on us hire boaters. LOL. We hired a boat in march and went off to the rubbish point to find our mooring pin had been pulled out and the bow was floating across the canal. We put the pin in as far as it would go and it had held us all night so I have no idea how it came out apart from the ground was very soft and there was a private moorer opposite who the night before had made her displeasure known about our choice of mooring and who had taken her dog for a walk..........I must say, coming off the mooring and ending up on the wrong side of the canal has always been one of my greatest fears so I tend to be a bit anal when mooring on pins. :-)
Hi to you both,
Thanks for the pictures of the water vole. I've yet to spot one and they fascinate me. Still looking to see a hedgehog as well...I loved our time on the Ashby last September. It's great all along there for black berrying in fall and I can only imagine how lovely it is dressed in spring.
Jaq
I think this rotten wet weather is cheesing us all off at the moment and both contributing to and increasing frustrations.
I LOVE those little water voles and am very jealous of you seeing some. The Ashby is the only place I have.
xxoo
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