Went down to Darley last night and swept
out all the inside of the hold. Just as
I had finished, I heard a distant ‘engine’ and looking down the cut towards the
junction I could see Andrew and Andrea with Dove and Achilles on the water
point. Andrew walked up and said they
were going to moor on the grass opposite Darley so I told him to bring them up
and moor abreast Darley and Chris Shenton’s boat, which they did.
We sat chatting until it was almost dark
before I went home. Well it’s all coming
together, finally. All the inside of the
hold is finished, side red oxided, bottom panels blacked and all the running
gear has been given a coat of red oxide.
So now for the outside, bows and counter
need painting, top cloth needs taking off and scrubbing to get rid of the
winter messages from the pigeons that roost in the huge tree over the bows, outside
cabin brasses need a damn good clean and all this needs to be done before
Etruria in 3weeks time. Then yesterday Dawn gets a message inviting us down to
Alvecote this Saturday to celebrate Matt’s birthday. So it was decided to move Darley down there
over the next three nights as it is about a 10 hour trip we can split this into
three 3+hour trip each evening so tonight I moved her from our mooring at Great
Haywood down to Crown bridge, passing Armitage Shank's wors in Armitage which always reminds me of the scene from the film 'The Bargee' where the boats pass the factory with all the girls hanging out the windows shouting "where's Hemmel".
Tommorow night we will take her somewhere around
Huddlesford and then Friday to Alvecote for the celebrations. Whoopee some boating at last.
Don’t bang ‘em about
Blossom.
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