That happened to us in Stratford basin with a party of no speek english eastern types (chinese maybe). Even when told to get off they still took turns having their photo taken on our boat until i stuck my ugly mug in the photo - after which they raced off to perform in front of a statue of MacBeth who they may have thought was Shakespeare from all the chit chat.
--- On Mon, 2/8/10, BARRY HOLLAND <[email protected]> wrote: From: BARRY HOLLAND <[email protected]> Subject: RE: [canals-list] Almost two weeks ago. To: [email protected] Date: Monday, 2 August, 2010, 11:03 --- On Sat, 31/7/10, David Cragg <[email protected]> wrote: From: David Cragg <[email protected]> Subject: RE: [canals-list] Almost two weeks ago. To: [email protected] Date: Saturday, 31 July, 2010, 14:37 I had an aunt who, when walking on the towpath would go and stare into boat windows commenting on the doing inside. The strange thing was she would never peer into the windows of the houses in her street - most of which had their front parlour window right next to the pavement. Mind you the most extreme case of peering we experienced was a Indian lady with her family below the locks at Bingley. This lady obviously felt that the boaters waiting to use the locks were some sort of entertainment for she rushed from one to another (followed by herd of children) pointing in windows gabbling in Hindi to the children. Finally she arrived at ours and, ignoring us at the back started banging on the kitchen window yelling ' Where is the mummy, where is the mummy?' After trying to explain that we not a low cast group of entertainers to be called out to perform for a few annas we gave up and, as she kept up her chant told her to bugger off. Where she came from who knows for other more definate locals were very boat friendly and certainly would not stare through boat windows lest Barry had a word. I wouldn't have said a thing! Mind you, I DID have a word with a family who perched their daughter on the front of my boat in order to take a picture! They were not put off at all by my exploding out of the front doors to ask what the f**k they thought they were doing?? Barry Nb byinvitationonly [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
