A little cruise and a cracking wordcount!
Thursday 9th November – Day 116
Cruising day, which doesn’t take very long and we are at the boat services again. The flood water has receded a huge amount, I’m totally guessing maybe 3 or 4 feet since we last came through. It looks like it’s following its normal channel through the countryside now, whereas before, the fields looked like marshlands.
We take the opportunity to get some coal and kindling as we try to stoke the fire up at night, we are getting through the bags of coal now. The couple we were chatting to back at Penkridge are waiting for the fuel boat which sounds like it about £5 cheaper for a bag of coal so next time we need to stock up we will try and time it with when the fuel boat is coming through.
Chris does an amazing reversing job the boat from the service point and back along the canal as we need to pass four moored boat and we don’t have bow thrusters and it’s windy! But then we look like complete amateur’s trying to moor the boat as for some reason it just would not tie up properly! ((I wish you’d filmed that. Maybe you should start doing ‘re-enactments so we can enjoy your mishaps!))
Anyway, we finally manage it and then we gear ourselves up for a big Ebay selling session to try and get rid of the stuff we sorted out when we ‘faffed’ on the boat.
I emailed the manager at Waterstones to find out about the possibly of doing a book launch/signing for the Jersey mystery book so we will see what response I receive. It would be equally exciting and bloomin terrifying. I have done a book signing before at a very supportive gaming café in Newark called Letsxcape but I had lots of friends pop in to buy them as well as a few people I didn’t know during the Newark Book Festival weekend but to do one in Waterstones… eekkk!
Until tomorrow… x
Miles: 0.7 0r 6 furlongs ((from the dictionary… Old Englishfurlang, from furh ‘furrow’ + lang ‘long’. The word originally denoted the length of a furrow in a common field (formally regarded as a square of ten acres. It was also used as the equivalent of the Roman stadium, one eighth of a Roman mile, whence the current sense. Compare with stadium.)) Locks: 0
Wordcount: 1,877 Total: 13,234 ((good word count Peachy!))
