Falling in

As you may be aware the cat fell in on Wednesday

She did the same the following morning.

Later that same day I was sat working away and as it was cold the fire was on and the portholes closed.  Cat was in and out through the back doors.

She went out through the back doors and then tried to come back in by launching herself at the porthole.  First I knew of it a furry face appeared briefly in the porthole next to me and then disappeared downwards followed by a splash and a quick exit.

I dried her off with a tea towel on the towpath.  Her head was only dry bit about her.

She has so far not fallen in again.

If she was going for exponential she would have had to fall in 4 times the next day.

An evening in the life of a Ship's Cat

Bit of room for me here

bit more

look cute

just a bit more

There done it.

Okay now it is bed time.

Indian Summer - long may it continue

Wasn't this afternoon glorious?

All dry again !

Spot the difference

No you are right there is no difference

Evidence strongly suggest

that the cat has fallen in ...


Evidence

wet tail
wet back legs
very damp fur sticking out at funny angles
one dry head


I missed the action - what a shame

Sad day yesterday

I took my lion to the dump.  I have had him for 27 years as he was given to me as a leaving present from my first job.  After a boozy send off I had to go home on the tube clutching a large lion.

As he is so old I wouldn't be able to take him to a charity shop like I planned so while I was dropping off the bits of laminate floor I took a deep breath and left him on the top of the 'textiles' bin I asked the lads to look after him for me, ruffled his mane and quickly got back in the car.  He looked majestic.

RIP Lion

Touching canals

This weekend I took a load of stuff down to my parents on the South Coast.  Luckily before I reached J28 on the M1 and the A38 the road signage changed from congestion between J26 and J24 to Road closed at J25.  I was thus able to head off down the A38.  I should have turned left onto the A444 at Burton but as I was so close I detoured to check on the boat.  It was fine.

Going down different roads but ones I was now familiar with due to the recent car/boat/bike shuffling made a nice change from my usual route down to the parents.  M1 to J20, A5 to Towcester, A43, A34, M3, M27.  Instead it was lovely country roads and of course plenty of canals to cross over and travel beside as well as names off to the left/right indicating places I had been through on the boat.

So I clocked up the Trent and Mersey, the Coventry Canal, and due to a slight error in Coventry the bit of Coventry Canal I haven't yet been on with the boat, The Grand Union, the Oxford, the Kennet and Avon and the Chichester Canal.  (not sure if I managed the Birmingham and Fazeley or not)  Still I felt an impressive array for one journey.

Banbury annoyed me because I knew the road went straight through to Oxford but I hadn't appreciated that the road name changed so looking for the A423 was no help at all and of course it doesn't indicate a route to Oxford because they would rather you went on the Motorway.  I did eventually click that Adderbury was on my route so all was well.  Bonus I crossed the Oxford Canal twice.

Passing Thrupp I considered calling in to have a cup of tea with Bones and Maffi but decided as I was running late not to bother and then I spotted Granny Buttons.  I did not see the great man Andrew Denny himself as the person sprawled all over his hatchway was most definitely not him.  It sported a lot of long hair.

On the way back I decided that the new route was much nicer than the old so I did a variation which spat me out onto the M1 at J23a.  Passing Granny Buttons again, this time I spotted that Milly M was right up close and personal with Granny.  Is that wise at their age?

I love my Fiat Panda and despite taking a detour I still only clocked up 6hours driving down and 5.5 hours coming back and an average of 74.5mpg

Who needs motorways.