Douglas' Diary

A diary, by me

  • Home
  • Help
  • Newsletter Subscribe
  • Previous Diaries
  • Movies of Me
  • Contact Me
  • Friends
  • Archive
  • Register
  • Recover Password
  • Edit profile
  • Photo Galleries
  • Log In
  • Register
  • Privacy Policy
  • Your Profile
Avatar

Douglas Diary Monday 11th May 2015

11/05/2015 Douglas 1 Comment

It was a very early start this morning. He woke me up for his walk just as it was getting light, Having groped our way round the field in the twilight and returned to my long kennel, we were delighted to observe that breakfast was ready. We moved my long kennel just a few metres to a nearby watering point and filled up for the next stage of our journey, this took over half an hour and as always was a convenient time for breakfast. It took me two seconds to eat mine. All finished and ship shape etc we started off and entered the lock taking us down onto the river Seven for our journey north. This was going to be a slog, the river Seven due to extensive rainfall  and the storms in the last couple of weeks was quite lively and the best ground speed we could manage was barely 2.5 mph because this was also at least  the speed of the current against us. Not only this we had to skilfully manoeuvre and avoid on coming trees above and below the waterline coming at us at this combined collision speed. This was rather daunting and  so I settled down in my position next to my stalwart bearded one on the poop deck for a long rest. The weather was grey and threatening. The problem with rivers, apart from the flow when it is against, and the storm born detritus is the sparsity of access points to the land. Unlike on the canals where there is always a tow path, dogs and humans can rarely get off onto the land from the river and In fact it was 5 hours during which we travelled 14 miles before I could get off and uncross my legs. The sun came out for the last three hours and it was really a very pleasant journey. We only met two other boats and a couple of working barges all the way to Worcester. We were very pleased to arrive. We plan to stay for a day or two. Love Douglas

Filed Under: Douglas' Diary

If you have not done so already, please subscribe to my newsletter (if you get emails from me, it means you have signed up already!) Joining my newsletter’s mailing list means that I can write to you periodically to inform you that I have posted some cool content. You have to be a member of my site to comment on my posts. Click this link to register. As a member you will be able to create a profile and upload a natty profile picture of yourself. You can also upload a picture with your comment -I do like to hear from all my followers!
Douglas

« Douglas Diary Sunday 10th May 2015
Douglas Diary Tuesday 12th May 2015 »

Comments

  1. AvatarNapoleon and Juno, Tilly and Fergus says

    12/05/2015 at 07:49

    We know the feeling – sometimes we are left crossing our legs for what seems like ages – ‘cos we don’t have watches and our world is timeless. Also our mathematics never developed but two and a half up and two and a half down sounds like going nowhere fast………
    There are some strange long haired guests staying who our master says he is getting pissed off with because they complain about everything and even accuse us of being smelly whatever that is.
    Meanwhile, there is fun to be had in the cactus chasing rats and lizards are a constant entertainment………….

    Log in to Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

You must be logged in to post a comment.

Return to top of page

Copyright © 2022 · Noah Price · Log in