It's about time I had a ME day it's been far too long really . My owners (useless boaters I call them) had left me in the cold over winter shivering my anodes off, then with a quick - here is your arse wiped with a bit of bitumen and some new engine oil, then gaily rush off up the canal system; UP the system mind, not even South for the warm weather! I got quite excited once or twice when they took me into a marina thinking they would emerge with something nice for me , you know, a new fender or two, something brass and shiny, even a rope or a gas bottle would be ok, but no , out they come with one of those fan things that goes on top of the stove. Hello, keep yourselves warm why don't you? well thanks , I'm starting to feel like Marvin the paranoid android !
I admit I shed a tear into my cratch when we passed Red Bull Basin where I was born , when Mr Piper turned some bits of steel and wood into ME, a 50 foot pencil case! Anyway back to my trip, If that wasn't enough they then proceed to crash and bash me off what seems like every lock gate between Stoke and Congleton , did I mention the Harecastle tunnel? Oh dear, you would have thought by now my brain-dead owners might have checked the bulb in the tunnel light? Naw, 5 minutes in and poof, out it goes and I'm blind for the next 40 minutes except for the three candle power led wafting through the bow doors.
So it's about time, I'd say, for a bit of TLC. A trip to a proper boat painters would be too much to ask of my dithering owners, but at least today they had the common decency to repaint my port side gunwales, clean my roof and polish my sides . It's a start I suppose .....
Ani
Ps they still can't get a signal on the sat dish (no sniggering at the back please!)
I admit I shed a tear into my cratch when we passed Red Bull Basin where I was born , when Mr Piper turned some bits of steel and wood into ME, a 50 foot pencil case! Anyway back to my trip, If that wasn't enough they then proceed to crash and bash me off what seems like every lock gate between Stoke and Congleton , did I mention the Harecastle tunnel? Oh dear, you would have thought by now my brain-dead owners might have checked the bulb in the tunnel light? Naw, 5 minutes in and poof, out it goes and I'm blind for the next 40 minutes except for the three candle power led wafting through the bow doors.
So it's about time, I'd say, for a bit of TLC. A trip to a proper boat painters would be too much to ask of my dithering owners, but at least today they had the common decency to repaint my port side gunwales, clean my roof and polish my sides . It's a start I suppose .....
Ani
Ps they still can't get a signal on the sat dish (no sniggering at the back please!)
Location:Bosley locks Macclesfield
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