Coole Pilate and the bbqs are out again

Moored Coole Pilate, Shropshire Union Canal

Well there have been bbqs here this evening and all the boaters are enjoying this glorious October weather at perhaps one of the best moorings on the Shropshire Union.  I have had a boring day really, well far too boring to bother to write a blog even, but I will find something to say!  Lots of paperwork got sorted today and Lucy had to be patient ‘till later this evening when I gave myself some time to relax..

You can see by the long shadow how late this was, and also by Lucy’s face that it is “walkies time surely?”.. some great walks around here too there are.

And where we are you can now see again.. blog reader and great friend John Sinclair who moors his narrowboat at Wigrams Marina has found a way to be able to show where we are on the Waterscape maps again. Here we go then, this is where we are – right here! 

It is all to do with the parameters x and y which was the grid reference that Waterscape used to use to show exact locations.  I don’t want to go into that more technically, but Waterscape are now not using those parameters on their site anymore.  However, for those that also use this on their blogs or in fact, use for their own convenience this is how you get the maps to use the x and y.  John says…

“Type this into the browser to get Wigrams Marina http://www.waterscape.com/iframe_map?x=446812&y=262489

If you click the above link you will get the Wigrams marina.
All it needs is the addition of iframe_map before the ?x part and after the
.com/ part.”

Great stuff John, and well done you for the research this one!

Just looking at that pic above, I guess this would be a great place for ‘tent city’ eh family of mine?!

Well this weekend I guess I will be doing much the same as all of you.. organising around rugby union and F1, so tomorrow we will take a run down to Audlem and find a good spot early to get the dot in the sky (satellite), then Sunday hopefully welcome our new crew member before settling late afternoon maybe at the top of Audlem to see whether Lewis can cheer us all.. must get the flags out first thing tomorrow and drape them over No Problem to bring the boys luck!