Back home, having been rained on in Banbury, Rained on in Cropredy, Rained on in Marston Doles
we are wet enough!
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July 2006
Dunsters Bridge Banbury
The 1970s footbridge designed by waterway engineer Chris Dunster. Chris played a very active part in engineering surveys of the Stroudwater Canal Society
Distance post Banbury
Who has the right to the lock. Never really understood the point of these as did you sound a horn at the distance post and whosever blew first got the lock?? No cheating!!
Not a bad picture as this was submited to the blog completely off a Sony Ericsson K700i mobile phone
Fifteen Miles from Ban buree!
Left Fenny for Wigrams and past the farm at the fifteen mile mark
and thought if the story about Tom Beech was true
The snow did fall 'til seven days and seven nights were past
The drift ran from the towpath head clear up to Beech's mast
Two little children and his wife died cold and hungrily
Froze up in the summit fifteen miles from Banbury
When at last the thaw did come the sun came shinng through
We brought the ice-boat smacking round with twenty in her crew
But when we came to Beech's boats a frozen corpse was he
Froze up in the summit fifteen miles from Banbury
Round to the farmhouse we did go to find the reason why
In the mid'st of plenty poor Tom Beech he had to die
"I had no food to spare for him" the farmer said to we
So we killed his chicks and fired his ricks in Beech's memory.
Then rounded the corner and saw the wartime pill box
what clown put this there; think it through
1940 and the Germans had occupied the whole of Southern England as far North as Banbury and they are going for Rugby, They have seized "Friendship" and a Horse and are on there way up the Oxford Canal with Seventy crack Stormtroopers but before Banbury fell the Home Guard General was able to ring the Vicar at Priors Hardwick to mobilise the two enrolled farm workers to defend that pill box. After they walked with their bikes and a rifle each across the fields they waited all day but as night fell they had a few jars of cider and fell asleep. Paul Riechelt and his colum snook past in the dark but they held up two FMC boats on suspicion!
The same guy that put that pill box there is ordering the Joint Strike Fighter Today!
Thursday 20th April 2006
Fitted the first of Homebases 30mm blue led decking lights. When we are moored in the country and have to get up in the night one then falls over a black labrador on a even blacker floor. Not any more as these lights work at 12volt and give a low level of blue light and the battery drain is nothing.
Never understood why Tesco in Banbury did not provide 140ft of mooring on the bend by the old line as at one time it was possible to moor there and nip through a hole in the hedge but its impossible now.
Took a photo of Sassy at Fenny Marine possibly the best kept of Peter Elses short boats
Back to Fenny moorings for the evening and another superb meal at the Wharf well attended by debbie who tells that she is from South Africa
Finished the day with a quick chat with the lovely crew off Button Oak
