Wednesday 2 October 2024

rough winds

Late summer up on the Long Pound has morphed into autumn, with some lively gales stirring up the canal and turning the hard-baked towpath back to mud. It's getting time to be dropping down through Devizes and into the Shire, where the gales don't blow quite so harshly and they offer the occasional blown-down tree as compensation; as long as they don't land on your boat, they can be a welcome source of firewood.

This was quite the sunrise, though. And an hour later it was just a memory and the sky turned grey and the rain set in again. And I lit the stove to get the ache out of my shoulders.



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  1. gz2 October 2024 at 08:14

    Life can't be easy when you can't stay too long in one place when the weather is hard.
    Although boats got stuck in Gloucester Docks last winter because of water levels.

    That looks cosy by the fire. You don't need aching shoulders with drawing to do.

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    1. Dru Marland3 October 2024 at 06:11

      We're exempted from the obligation to move if conditions make it dangerous or impossible; should be common sense, as safety should be the overriding consideration, though it's probably as well to get that in writing from CRT!

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  2. Deanna3 October 2024 at 01:22

    A gorgeous sunrise. Happy October Dru.. loved seeing your peregrine over Bath when I turned my calendar yesterday! :-)

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    1. Dru Marland3 October 2024 at 06:11

      thank you! I was very happy with that picture, too!

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