Feed the ducks your gooey porridge!

Moored Devizes, K&A Canal

Well I am glad the site feed seems to be behaving again..

It’s been nice away from the boatyard and on the towpath again.  Lucy has certainly enjoyed it, spending most of this spring like day lying on the towpath and greeting people as they walked by with a lazy wag of the tail.. greeting K9s with a frown and a “This is my patch keep off” stare about her.

I was tired this morning, and while Vic went aboard Mk2 to do a bit more, I relaxed a while and enjoyed watching the ducks close by as they wandered up and down paired up and marking their territory.  There is a bank opposite, I wondered if I could get some bite-sized shredded wheat to land on the bank so that I might see a mud slide show the likes of which Mo of Balmaha has seen with ducks and moorhens.. we don’t have porridge on our narrowboat..

He is having a bit of a problem, you see, the moorhens are not getting their fair share of titbits because the ducks are too greedy..

“The moorhens kept missing out at feeding time because the ducks flew straight to the rear doors as soon as anyone showed a face and so they were first in line every time.

Trying to make it fair I threw clods of cold porridge across the canal towards the moorhens and managed to get a dollop stuck on the muddy bank above the water line. Leaping up at the porridge kept moorhens and ducks busy for hours. They even tried sliding down the wet muddy bank from above, grabbing the gooey mess as they fell into the canal.”

“Gooey mess?”  Surely not.. well not if Vanessa had made it!

My daydreams faded and I finished my coffee.. Joined Vic again for a few hours before taking Lucy for a stroll along the footpaths.  The days are certainly getting longer now.. it was gone 5.30pm before the light faded tonight. 

I phoned a particular boat company on the Staff and Worcs Canal today to see how much a complete paint job would be on NP Mk2.. £5,500 plus VAT… errrrrrrrrrm looks like we will swap screwdrivers and hammers for paint brushes in the summer months!!