It was off to Lauren and
Lewis’s on Friday for a weekend of family fun.
Seven of our children made it so Lauren had a houseful to contend
with. I suppose we will always call them
children although they are all over 21 now.
Those of you who are boaters will understand when I say that one of the
best things about staying away is not having to worry about having long, hot
showers 😊
On Saturday afternoon, we
all went off to the Escape rooms. We
split into two groups to make it more competitive. If you’ve never been to an Escape room the
idea is to solve clues and find your way out within 60 minutes. Both groups did it with just minutes to spare
and it was practically a draw.
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Happy escapees (Jake
hiding as usual)
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Leaving for the Escape
rooms – not sure why they took that old man with them
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As Jake managed to hide behind
a placard in the FAM picture at the top I thought I would show you a nice
picture of him and his fiancée, Dommie, from her graduation earlier in the
week:
You may remember that last
week I included a picture of an unusual boat on the canal at Hockley
Heath. I also posted the picture on a
social media group called Weird Waterways as they love that sort of thing. It attracted quite a bit of interest with
lots of wacky comments as expected. It
turned out that the guy moored on the narrowboat next to them saw the post and
was able to explain the craft. These
were his words, “They have a explorer licence and
it's owned by some young lads from a church group that have built several this
one is the mk7 model. Really nice bunch of lads. They removed it from the water
yesterday apparently the posh locals had been complaining about it.”
My first thought was that just because there’s a McLaren
and a Rolls Royce garage at Hockley Heath it doesn’t make the residents
posh. Shame on them if the story’s true.
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| The boat in question |
Another advantage of visiting family in a house is that
you can order things online beforehand and have them delivered there. Karen had ordered a sandwich toaster that
sits on top of the stove so we were keen to try it out when we got home on
Sunday. Excuse the over-roaring fire but
the boat had got cold over three days and we wanted to get it warmed up
quickly.
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The toaster is sitting on the top right
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Monday was bridge night,
so I took Karen into work in the morning and picked her up in the evening on
our way to Stratford. We only have four
more Mondays before our Christmas holiday – all of a sudden, it’s nearly next
year!
On our way home we noticed
that the satnav couldn’t work out where we were and had got completely
confused. It seemed to think we were
travelling from somewhere north of Birmingham. This is going to make it fun for
Karen when she comes home from work today.
Today is moving day and when I move the boat during the week I just send
her a postcode of where we have moved to; that’s not going to work today
unfortunately ☹
We need to take on water
and visit a boatyard as we are running out of coal. The plan is to cruise the remaining four
miles of the North Stratford canal to Kings Norton junction where I will turn
left onto the Worcester & Birmingham canal, through the 1 ½ mile long Wast
Hill tunnel and out into Hopwood. Hopwood
is only half a mile from a junction on the M42 so shouldn’t present any problems
for Karen finding us in the dark (hopefully 😊).
We will stay at Hopwood
until Friday when we will cruise into the centre of Birmingham for the weekend –
our first visit there on the boat since October 2015.
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