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| Lovely sculpture outside the museum at Portland Basin Made from spoons forks spanners etc |
We did get the bike out on Saturday and cycled down
to Fairfield Junction, the nearest water point as far as we could work
out! On the way back we spotted the sign
for the Moravian Settlement and being Saturday the museum was open, so we
decided to visit. It was fascinating. We came from the canal into a cobbled area
which could have been in the 1800. A
real step back in time. The museum was
very interesting. Sunday found us back
in another museum, this time at Portland
Basin just a short walk from where we are moored. This shows the industrial development of the
area. Yesterday Paul painted the side of
the boat as this is quite a nice mooring.
Then in the afternoon John Sergeant was here, filming for ITV. We watched for a
while. There was a wooden hulled boat (not
many left these days) with a butty. They
were just getting ready, then finally got under way and we watched them cruise
past Falcon.
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| John Sergeant and crew! |
Well when we say cruised
past John managed to put the boat aground, then the butty caught up with him
and there was some sorting of ropes to be done!
In the end they threw Paul a rope and he helped to pull them off. The boat is called Forget-Me-Not and the
butty is Hazel. Paul was filmed, but don’t
know if it will make it on to TV. It will be interesting to see how the whole thing is finally portrayed. During all this we got chatting to the proper
boat crew who came from the museum at Portland Basin and we can get water
there. So that’s where we are off to
now. Supply getting a bit low. We will then moor just around the corner as
we have yet to explore Ashton-Under-Lyne and plan to get the metro into
Manchester.
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| Boat stuck on the bottom, the only smile we saw from John was when Paul called to him and asked for a smile in return for pulling them off the bank! |
