Day 8 - Saturday 1st July 2006 At about 22:30 two fire engines came along the road and stopped near the pub. A garage was on fire across the way. They soon put it out, and relative quiet descended again. I don't know what caused it.
The hire boat left the moorings this morning at 6am. They didn't rev the engine this time at least. We got up at about 10:30, and now we wait for Julie to arrive. She called at about 13:00, saying that she was leaving. She only had directions to Stoke on Trent, so we had to devise another route to get her here at Milton. At about 14:00 a group of late teens, early 20 somethings came into the beer garden. One of them tried to get into the BW workboat moored only a couple of feet in front. He soon gave in, but later after finding the remains of a boat hook tried to prise the hatch open. He was trying for a good few minutes, until a police siren made him turn around and see me watching him from inside the boat, when he gave up and went back to the group sat at the table. These idiots act like errant six year olds. Julie arrived at 16:10, just in time for the beginning of the England Portugal game, and so we passed the luggage through a gap in the wall. A van was blocking the gate, so, while we waited we went shopping. We had to wait until the football finished before getting the van moved, and we finally got underway at 19:30. We stopped just below the locks at Stockton Brook at 21:30. --- Mike Askin nb. Kismet http://shoestring.zapto.org/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canals-list/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
