Tuesday 31 May 2016

And it goes cold again.

After a night of being knocked and buffeted by the hire boat from yesterday, as you can imagine we didn't get much sleep.
Hey ho.
We started off the day with a McDonald's breakfast for KM and a Wetherspoons for the grown ups.



We were only going half way back today until the weather turned and we decided a night with mains power would be nicer.



The help was useful again.





All locks take 30 minutes each don't they?

Who gets hirer's a bad name.

Our first trip of the season last night and what a reminder it was of other people's selfishness.

You will hopefully read more about this when I send it to one of the canal magazines.

Bank holiday Monday. You're the company rep and it's five I clock so you want to go home. You have two boats to moor so why not put one in the clearly marked lock moorings way past the vistor moorings as shown on the photo, and the other in a half boat space pushed up against another boat. Well either that or do your job properly.









Another Boating Cowboy!



We made our feelings known but checking further along did not appear to be an option though we were told we could change our mooring!

The rest of the day had gone well as we came down the Droitwich canals and I to Worcester.





We saw baby Moor hens.




Iconic views.



And initially a nice mooring.

Saturday 21 May 2016

More trams.

I haven't blogged for a while. Not sure I have a decent excuse so I will try to do better in future.

Today I was passed out on a new tram. Oporto 273.



It went OK apart from one problem mixing up the hand brake and air brake.



Today was horse tram day.



And a chance to see 2 Sheffield cars together.



Alison rode with me all day.



And finally back to shed with no problems.



On May 1st I drove 236 again but forgot to blog.