Wild and windy lurking

This winter's weather pattern has been wild and windy with gales and rain and today has followed that in spades. So, apart from a brief trip to the shop to get the paper, we've stopped indoors in a rocking boat.

Sheila's been doing finance stuff and I've just been pottering around, frankly. It's nice to have a chilled out day between the social events of the weekend and the prospect of Christmas festivities to come.

We emailed our answers to the Canal Boat Quiz and I've been downloading book samples to the Kindle to choose from for my Christmas book.

Tonight, a veggie meal, "thunder and lightning", I think; that's a pasta dish with chick peas and chilli.

Since this is definitely the last post I'm doing until after Christmas, here are the answers to my quiz:


Christmas General Knowledge

1 Coca Cola
2 Boxing Day
3 Wendy Darling; Mr Darling sleeps in the dog kennel after the children go to Neverland.
4 All of them; the New Year’s Day after Christmas is in the next year, the clue's in the name.
5 Queen Victoria; Albert brought the idea from Germany.


Boaters not Floaters

1 There are two of each, narrow ones between Stone and Stoke and wide ones between Stenson and Shardlow
2 It’s the horizontal plate over the prop in a narrow boat, usually with the weed hatch in it these days.
3 Union Wharf, Market Harborough is just south of the foot of Foxton Locks, the barrier to further wide beam progress.
4 Standedge on the Huddersfield Narrow.
5 Four: CRT for the GU, EA for the Thames, National Trust for the River Wey and finally the Basingstoke Canal Authority.


Those Classic Christmas Films

1 “Round up the usual suspects” in Casablanca.
2 Rebecca.
3 “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn” Rhett Butler to Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind.
4 All played James Bond: Connery, Lazenby, Moore, Dalton and Craig.
5 The Sound of Music.


Cathedrals on the Cut

1 Liverpool
2 Coventry
3 Worcester
4 Chester
5 Edinburgh

Congratulations to John of Waimaru for a perfect score, and have a very pleasant Christmas Day, all of you!