Brrrrrrr it's a bit chilly at Semington and coal is needed

Weekend – Bradford-on-Avon to Semington, 4.5 miles 0 locks

On Saturday we decided to turn at Bradford and come back to Semington.  It was busy in Bradford and we didn’t have the best of moorings.. kept banging on some underground rocks.. there is nothing so annoying as that.  It’s a bit like chinese torture, you are just waiting for the next bang.  Fenders don’t help in cases like that nor do rubber wheels set sideways and floating.. in fact I have yet to find something to stop that.

Still there are more miserable people in Bradford-on-Avon to contend with… “Hello, we could do with a few bags of coal” says I to a coal merchant close to the canal.. “Yes, what is the address?”  “Oh we live on a narrowboat I can give you a post code to exactly where we will be and we will come and collect it”… “Sorry we don’t deliver to canal boats, goodbye”..  Gawd, I didn’t even get time to ask why not before she put the phone down on me.. not nice at all L.H. Arlott of Holt, Trowbridge. 

So another phone call this time to the coal merchant in Devizes.. I was ever hopeful that they might deliver.. “Hello it’s Sue, can you deliver us some coal around the Semington area?”  “Yes sure, No Problem” (Teehee!) “Semington Bridge OK?” says she ….. “Perfect” says I, and we have the usual giggle between us as to the name of the boat!.. well done Frank Chivers & Son of Devizes.

I am feeling better today.. on the mend now thank goodness, but I am not in a rush to get back to fitness.  I do realise that I am going to have to take it steady for the next week or so, and out walking today for the first time at half speed I managed a couple of miles plus a trip into Melksham for some bread milk and fresh veg.. that was enough too, and was pretty tired when I got back.

I have been doing feet up time for most of the weekend apart from that.. Vic has been looking after me not allowing me to move around much, and he certainly wouldn’t let me do anything at all!.. I enjoyed the F1 very much, hey we got a good youngster in that by the look of it.. but the rugby was annoying, England can do a lot better than that.. thought they were pathetic actually!

But hey, I would like to say a huge thankyou to everyone who has wished me well over the weekend, I have enjoyed all your comments and emails, they have been really lovely..