November’s
certainly here with vengeance, the temperature halved last night and
our first frost this morning. Yesterday afternoon I was sitting out
beside the boat knitting. We had lots of coal delivered to Heather &
Jason’s garage today, then we can have a bit at a time as we don’t
have a coal boat like we had last winter on the Macclesfield &
Peak Forest Canals.
We
are moored in Tarleton just by Heather & Jason’s for this week
as it’s half term. Heather’s had the chance to do some overtime
the last few weeks so as we’re here we are looking after the kids.
Last
Sunday we helped at the 5th ‘Burscough Fibre Festival’
organised by Carole and Colin of ‘The Wool Boat’. We’ve been
to the first three in the car. It’s a tiny event compared to any
of the other ones we’ve been to. We were looking after the entries
in the Halloween competition, which gave us the opportunity to chat
to lots of people. I spun on a drop spindle & John had lots of
interest in his knitting loom/block. One of the stall holders was a
boater who sells hand spun yarn, dyed yarns and fibre & felting.
We
decorated the boat for Halloween with some bright orange bunting, gel
window stickers and the ghost & pumpkin light’s Edmund brought
us. Plus we had two small pumkins carved on the bow. We got some
sweets in as we had the Overells booked in and Nikita had her friend
with her. There is a new housing estate right by the mooring, there
were people commenting on the boat’s decoration but none knocked.
We’re
planning to go to the firework display on Saturday at Southport as we
can all squeeze into the car.
Sunday
we’re planning a trip with the Overells back down to the main line
of the canal.
We
have seen the end of the season long celebrations of the Leeds &
Liverpool Canal’s bicentenary. We caught the train from Burscough
to Wigan on Friday 21st October to see the flotilla headed
by ‘Kennet’ the Liverpool short boat that’s been renovated and
converted into a floating museum, it was doing a week long trip along
the whole canal. ‘Kennet’ had a huge band of volunteers that were
assisting it’s passage down the Wigan flight of 21 locks. The
second boat in the procession was our friend ‘Ribble’ the other
short boat that we’d helped when it got stuck under a bridge.
‘Ribble’ was looking much higher in the water as it had unloaded
it’s 30 tons of sand. We’d taken our windlasses & anti
vandal keys with us, so we helped ‘Ribble’ with it’s crew of
just 2 down quite a few locks. Then on the Saturday the flotilla
came past where we were moored in Burscough. We put up our bunting,
pompoms and fairy lights. I made the grandchildern some wavers out of
some old material and we blew bubbles and honked the horn as all the
boats went by.
Then on the Saturday the flotilla
came past where we were moored in Burscough. We put up our bunting,
pompoms and fairy lights. I made the grandchildern some wavers out of
some old material and we blew bubbles and honked the horn as all the
boats went by.
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