Mr Ed Pays a Visit!

It was 12.30 am (ie, last night !) and I was just about to let the dogs out through the side hatch for their final wee of the night, when I saw movement just outside of the window.  The next minute Mr Ed stuck his very long nose through the side hatch!


I asked the normal questions ... why the long face etc?
Elaine gave him a few apples to eat.

He was very, very friendly ...

The dogs wern't amused though - they were going a bit nuts.

I heard a bit of banging around outside the boat this morning and when we got up we went and checked out the notices that had been nailed to stakes surrounding the horses ...

Elaine gave them a bit more grub this morning. I wonder who owns them .... they look in pretty good nick, and super friendly.  He was a bit too friendly actually ... he tried to eat the camera. 

(We actually saw the horses in another field on Sunday when we moored up - when we were approaching Hawkesbury Junction - so we think the owner must just move them about from spare field to spare field ?)

If Elaine could have she would have loaded them into the boat, to look after them - but as it was we had to bid them farewell ...

My camera has been playing up a bit the last couple of days so we didn't get too many pics on today's cruise - we actually only got one which was of NB Herbie and her crew!  We backed up and had a chat; it was good to meet you guys.

We have moored up for the night at Cathiron.

Poor Little Coot, Sorry Moorhen!

This morning I was faced with the question ... "Do you want to walk the dogs or hoover the boat"?  So I left Elaine hoovering away whilst I took the doggies for a good walk across the fields!  There were so many rabbits - I dared not let them off the lead - don't want to lose a dog again do we?!

After hoovering and dog walking was successfully accomplished we set off again ... once more a sunny day with no chance of rain.

I pulled over at Valley Cruisers to buy a couple of ice creams....they were shut...bugger!
This is the marina where we hired a boat back in 2011.


Moving on, we passed a solitary telegraph pole ...

We were soon into Nuneaton, lots of allotments next to the canal ...

Just as we were nearing the end of Nuneaton I spotted this poor little Moorhen on its own.  I could see mum and its brothers and sisters a bit further up the canal so I called Elaine up from her cleaning duties to give me a hand to rescue it.  I backed the boat up being careful not to suck the poor little bugger into the prop.  Elaine picked it up with the 'drowning-cat-rescue-net' ... she then gave it some sort of witchcraft to make it better.  (Reiki actually ...  used it on a lot of animals this week ! El x)  We finally released it next to mum and it seemed to swim after her ... we reckon he got separated and all the paddling to catch up tired him out.  Well, we tried.....

Onwards past the charity dock junk yard ...

It really is a bit of a strange place ...

 

Some nice canalside gardens at Bedworth ...

 

 

 

We moored up for the night at Hawkesbury Junction.  There were loads of mooring spots available, which was handy!

We took the dogs for a walk and had a drink at the Greyhound ... sitting outside with an eclectic mixture of people and their dogs!


Tomorrow we get sent to Coventry.