Today was always a rest day and a test of Percy’s limited battery capacity. Can we run a full 24 hours without charge.... seems so. Good to know
We needed supplies so took a walk to the farm shop at Great Haywood via Shugborough. It was a long walk as the Natural Trust had closed the Great Haywood entrance ( Pedestrian) making pedestrians walk all the way to the car park the all the way back. Suffice to say we found a gap in the fence on the way out.
Supplies sourced ( it’s an expensive shop) we met our first boat NB Comet, looking resplendent and talking to her owner sporting a new bottom !
A few more random pics ....
On getting back to the boat the fuel boat came past and was hailed by the boat a little further down the canal. They took diesel then 10 minutes later a proper diesel slick came down the canal. it cost me a full bottle of washing up liquid to disperse it and the smell was horrible. Spin forward 10 minutes and a boat winds behind us and back up. Then lights a portable bbq so we have stink from the cut and stink from the air .... I’m a moaning git.
One boat that did pass earlier was NB Jubilee Halfie offered a towpath drink later which I really enjoyed. John has been blogging a long time and we have met a few times and I recall we shared a Curry in Alrewas when I was living aboard. Hopefully we can catch up again when they do the Caldon and Leek arm and we will be back home then.
2 comments:
Now that is a coincidence. I had never heard of Shugborough before this week when I borrowed from the library 'The Book of Unexplained Mysteries'. The very first one is 'The Shugborough Code'! Asked in the mid-eighteenth century by Thomas Anson, the owner of Shugborough Hall, to make a copy in marble of Poussin's painting EtIn Arcadio Ego, the Dutch sculptor Peter Scheemakersa chiselled into the plinth these letters - D-O-U-O-S-V-A-V-V-M For more than 250 years, it has defied every attempt to solve it.Dickens and Darwin both tried and failed. There is a lot more about it including a competition organised by Shugborough's management and Bletchly Park. But perhaps you knew this already? F.W.H.
That’s very interesting and something I’ll certainly have a read around..... as to cracking the code if the people and organisations names haven’t been able to I think I stand very little chance ! Thanks for the comment
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