Sunday 24 January 2010

Our new gold licence has been tracked down!

None of the bridges on this canal are numbered; they all carry individual names which makes them much more personal, but a bit of a b****r to remember for those of us suffering from senior paragraphs...now did I say I'd meet him at Drayton Footbridge or was it Drayton Brick Bridge....or was it Fishers Brick Bridge?
They are 'growing' big lakes and water meadows here and a fair amount of bird life has already moved in. I'm sure it will be lovely in a few years, but it doesn't offer a lot for the walker at the moment being, primarily, a vast desolate area of mud.
Daisy has developed a complex about being mistaken for a kitten. She has decided that she is malnourished and has demanded a bigger food bowl (I'm going to need a litter tray the size of a bath tub!).

Our licence expired at the end of December 09 and we applied early December for a gold licence as we are 'doing' the fens this summer, we gave G's daughter's address for delivery as we knew we would see her over xmas/new year. The cheque was cashed on 9th December. Phoned BW in Jan & was told it had been processed on 10th Jan and would be with us shortly. Today I tracked it down in Norfolk. So now it has to go Norfolk to Northampton & then Northampton to a suitable post office - methinks we could be looking dodgy for a week or two yet.
This whole 'address' business is becoming a pain as we can no longer use the one we have been for the last two years. Tomorrow I shall have a word with the company being advertised by River Canal Rescue & see what they can offer.

5 comments:

  1. If you're heading into, or through, Birmingham then please ask if you need advice on where to moor, visit etc. on our home waters.

    If you say when you're climbing the Aston / Farmers Bridge Locks I might even appear with a windlass. You'll see from the comments on Caxton's Blog (and several others) that we're well recommended.

    Be aware that most of the planned lifting of closures for the 6/7 Feb weekend to allow through passage have just been cancelled to allow work to catchup after the recent snow.

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  2. Paul,
    Yes, we spotted the closure notices - many thanks & we will shout when we're getting close (you come with very high recommendations). Can't go anywhere for a few days as we have some domestic/admin problems to sort out. I hope we'll meet soon.

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  3. Hi Folks

    This is a test comment using a wordpress login

    Richard

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  4. Hi Folks

    This is a comment using anonymous - I am posting to this entry as this one I remember sending a comment to.

    Richard
    nb Indigodream

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  5. Both of these have come through OK,but will I never know what you said Richard?

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