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.



6 comments:

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

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

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  3. Just reading Steve Reed's blog about a walk along a canal in London and wondered if you had heard anything about the derelict boats and stuff in one of his photos, on the boaters' grapevine?
    http://shadowsteve.blogspot.com/2024/10/a-canal-walk.html

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    1. apparently (allegedly) a mixture of drug dealers and 'nutters' involving arson. According to word on the towpath... Seemingly there was a homeless person trying to get a boat together to live on. All a bit Wild Westway....

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