Quiet times around Knighton and footpaths are hard to find

Moored Knighton, Shropshire Union Canal

Blimey that doctor from Holby City can’t half sing!.. WOW

We are enjoying watching BBC1 tonight, the atmosphere in the studio is fantastic, and it is amazing what some people will do to raise money for Children in Need.

Mind you the shoutbox is doing well here, as of 8.45pm there have been 55 shouts.. there have been many more hits than that though looking at my stats.  I am wondering if some are reading this on one the many RSS feed-readers available.  Can you actually see the left hand column?  If not, you lot can’t shout.  So here is a link for you directly to the shoutbox so you can leave a message.

Right then, that link for the feed-readers.. click ——> Gimme a shout you guys!

I am totally amazed by the messages, and I have to thank you all very much for your kind comments, totally unexpected.  I just thought I would get “Hi” or “5p” or something like that.. but lots of lovely messages.. thanks

Here is our mooring this evening..

You can hear a pin drop here, it is absolutely idyllic.  This morning apart from setting up the shoutbox for the day, I did some much needed bookwork while Vic put the knobs and catches on the new dinette cupboard doors. But with the dogs keeping on pestering me, I relented and took them out, finding a lovely circular walk through the nearby woodland and alongside the Knighton Reservoir.

But once again we were faced with no signage or waymarkers on the paths, here we all have different ideas on which way to go.. I had the map though!!..

Hey the map says straight on you guys, and up over that hill!!

Not many boats past us today, it seems to have gone very quiet on the cut.. much to my liking of course.  We have also found a way to stop the constant banging against the concrete ledges which lurk below the waterline on the embankments to make them extra strong.  I really could do with a couple of mini wheels or large wheelbarrow wheels to keep No Problem away from the concrete edge.  In fact the garage at Gnosall promised to try get me a couple.

In the meantime I noticed the other day that one of my fenders’ ropes had worked a bit loose and had slipped the fender into the water slightly.. it didn't float!  Why on earth I didn't think of that before I don’t know.. so anyway now I have all four thick fenders tied to No Problem on long lines, and they have sunk to below the hidden concrete shelf.. no more banging!! Hooray!!

Oh the pic of the reservoir, nearly forgot this one..

Bit late in the day this, the sun was just going down.

I see the lady that the police were searching for at Foxton has turned up.. Balmaha reports today that they found a newspaper with a report, and here it is in the Leicester Gazette.

Mo of Balmaha comments..

“A costly exercise I shouldn’t be surprised and a waste of thousands of man-hours but at least we have a living person and not a dead body to contend with.”

Yep, got to agree with that, and a family not grieving too