Home Sweet Home on the Ashby Canal

Friday, 27 February 2009 18:45

It is so nice to be back home - even if home is moored in a marina!

The good news is that we have friends arriving from Cornwall this evening and tomorrow we leave to explore more of the Ashby Canal. We will be going north to the existing terminus and back over the course of the weekend. So watch out for more bloggy facts and photos about the Ashby!

We shall be eating at the Brewers Fayre here again - strangely named The Marina. Now I wonder what gave them that idea! It may very well be busier as it is Friday and we are eating later. I will let you know. My blogs over the weekend will probably be nil, but after Monday I can let rip! Evenings with these friends tend to be boozy and good fun so I shall be in no fit state to write!

No - we will not be drinking and boating before you comment. No serious boater would, I hope.

Another bit of good news is that we are definitely booked onto the Lancaster Canal at the end of May, for a month (vote here on the restoration to Kendal). We are really looking forward to it as we have explored some of it by car. Our son, Craig, is not too sure he wants Mum and Dad on his territory! Though I think if a drink or a meal at an accessible pub is on, he will not be backward in coming forward, as they say!

We hope (in vain?) that the Lune aqueduct is sorted by then. We want our (current) Lancaster Head of Navigation plaque with a photo of Epiphany at Twitfield!

So this is a warning - if you want to avoid Epiphany and us (of course) stay away from the Northern canals - especially the Lancaster! John is also very  keen to go through Standedge Tunnel on the Huddersfield Canal - particularly as BW have finally announced that we can take her through ourselves with a only a "guide", in case! Hey Ho - I shall probably be cowering down below!

We have both read and devoured Steve Hayward's latest book  "Narrowboat Dreams"

It is very readable and amusing! It is certainly worth reading and has not put us off the Northern canals! We have done some of the bits he talks about and experienced similar problems. Those who have been there more recently say things have improved!

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