Not a lot going on, except on Sanity Again

16th & 17th November

We’ve been sat on the mooring for the last two days, so there’s not a lot to tell. During the morning yesterday we became aware of a recurrent hollow metallic sound ringing out across the cut. Our first thought was that this was the noise of paving slabs being loaded into Sanity Again’s shell, but this proved to be incorrect.

The main thing which we did was to order a copy of David Blagrove’s pictorial history of the IWA. The excuse is that we need it to refer to when producing the National Festival’s in house newsletter next year, so initially I looked for it on the IWA shop website. Searching for it under “blagrove” didn’t produce anything, so I tried Googling for it and found a copy on Neil Ratcliffe’s Canal Shop site.

After ordering it from there, I had a further thought, and tried searching the IWA site with “Blagrove”. This found several books by him including the one we wanted. The IWA must have one of the only search engines on the net which is case sensitive. I’ve e-mailed them to point this out but haven’t had a response.

Not long after all this, we took a call from Susan Mason to say that we had a parcel waiting. I went over to discover that it was the marine VHF transceiver I only ordered last Friday. I also found out that the noise we had been hearing was what you get when you use a nail gun in an empty shell.

Today has been much the same; Sheila went off to get her hair cut and whilst she was away I got a call from Peter Mason, this time to go over and consult about the layout of the lining panels on the cabin sides. (We then went back there after lunch because the Blagrove book had arrived; full marks to Neil!)

I won’t go into much detail about all this as of course it really belongs over on the other blog. I’ve already posted an account there of yesterday’s visit; today’s will have to wait until the regular Friday post with pictures.

We’ve had a quiet afternoon with the weather deteriorating steadily. It’s a bit of a worry as we need to go to Marple on Thursday for a further physio appointment.