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All thanks to Navvies' Barge - what a treat to be back on the canal (11th September) on the rumbling old barge but this time with Sean and Ania and the helm so I was, quite simply, a passenger!
COVID challenges struck as 4 the carefully selected crew of just 10 Water Story veterans were tripped at the post with coughs, track-n-trace and one completely impossible journey from Inverness - so sorry your taxi didn't turn up May! But as seems to be the way of Water Story, the sun shone... here's Pat's account:
"To those who didn't make it, commiserations; we missed you all. Unlike the forecast, the weather was fine and after a cloudy start the sun shone most of the time. It was lovely to be back on Peccadillo (she will always be that to us) after a long absence, lovely to see the heron which joined us on various stages of the journey, the baby moor hens and all the cheery Glasgow folk waving from the tow path. We noted that the canal needs something to sieve off the green weed that chokes the surface in places, and a visit from a big bottle-scooper; it seems the makers of Irn Bru and the monks of Buckfast Abbey have been having a bumper year. Maybe it will all be tidied up in time for the big climate gathering.
Bev, usually at the wheel, was able to join in, as Ania and Sean drove the barge, which was a bonus for us all. We did a fair amount of writing, but for the final hour just sat in the prow chatting and taking in the rays and relaxing. Thanks to Bev for organising the trip, and here's hoping we can all meet again soon.
Lapidus Scotland gratefully acknowledges the support of Glasgow City Health and Social Care Partnership's "Wellbeing for Longer in Glasgow Fund" (managed by Impact Funding Partners).
