Norburys awesome embankment and more wood

Cruising Shropshire Union and Staff and Worcs Canals

Golly, we did collect a lot of wood the other day..

And there was more further back on No Problem’s roof.. In fact it took us just over 3 hours today to cut it all up into logs and lay it more neatly on the roof.  We were lucky with the weather too, just a couple of squally showers this afternoon had us scurrying into NP for cover.

But today we did a bit of cruising as well, here on the Norbury embankment.  You can see the road in the left of the photo, which shows just how high the canal is. 

The road actually goes under a bridge just where I was taking the photo from.

There are a lot of pillboxes along this canal too, all part of the Second World War anti invasion defences.  They are all different, and I often wonder why.  Some are square, some round and some built more like the shape of a threepenny bit, or as I call it being a southerner, a "THRUPP-nee" bit.  But this particular pillbox I think was oblong. I say I think because it was well camouflaged..

I didn’t poke my head in that one!!

We have now turned south and will be making our way in that direction over the next couple of months, I have enjoyed the northern stretches of the Shropshire Union Canal, and I hope that we may return to spend the winter of 2008/9 in this area.  Having said that, our plans may change before then. 

That is one of the most wonderful things about living aboard a narrowboat, nothing is set in stone.. literately!