Easter on a new canal

.Well we finally found the courage to turn the corner at Autherly and go up the Staffs and Worcester. 

We decided to join in the canal world forum 'banter'. This was a gathering of boaters over the Easter weekend at Calf Heath. This was a banter with a difference as it was also to celebrate the marriage of Dave and Jan. It was such a fun weekend. I was very impressed that the toast to the happy couple was in beer (served in champagne glasses) and the wedding 'cake' was actually a big round of cheese. Fortunately the bride did not throw the bouquet as this was an iron windlass decorated with roses and castles. As the evening wore on some brave souls found their guitars and we had a great time singing along.

 If it had ended there it would have been fine, unfortunately we ended up going back to the bar on Sunday and after many drinks started off with the singing and dancing again. Monday was therefore a duvet day. We rose bright eyed and bushy tailed on Tuesday with the intention of moving off up to Penkridge. Unfortunately we were persuaded to have a quick drink of sloe gin with Tracey and Ray off Billy Whizz. Several sloe gins, damson gins and butterscotch schnapps later Ray played us some beautiful Flamenco guitar and we ended up back in the bar again. We eventually got to Penkridge, stayed for a day or two then turned round and ended up back in calf heath for another boozy evening with Phylis and Jim who we knew from over-wintering in Gnosall. So in retrospective, the Staffs and Worcester was great although our livers now need to recover.

Proper wedding outfit.

A fine toast

Purple beard and new teeth

You put your left arm in

Mmmmmm beer

How many boaters to change  a light bulb

Billy Whizz - of course!

As spring has reached the land it has been wonderful seeing everything coming to life but it has been strange going past fields that were brown for so long in winter and then became green finally resulting in a whole yellow landscape of oilseed rape.

Spring lambs - Italian Greyhounds

TRACTOR !!!!

Adrian on Jarrett

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