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At the moment I am caring full time for a family member and when the time comes I will be selling up and living on a narrowboat.I enjoy reading,especially about those living on narrowboats and their daily lives.The tug Nb Resolute in the above picture is NOT mine but is owned by Dave Moore and is something I would aspire to own one day although I am going to look at many boats before I make a decision on the style and interior.Tugs are looking good at the moment but have yet to look around one. My interest in narrowboats started some 47 years ago. As a lad I cycled from Luton to bridge 111 on the G.U.by the Globe to fish and watch the Morton and Clayton boats go by,full of coal with a family on board and always wondered how they kept their balance on the planks that ran above the coal and why the the dogs didnt jump in the canal.That fascination has stayed with me so when I am able I will be there on my narrowboat joining in the great community of boat owners. Find me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/brassiclint or listen to my music site.Use earphones or earplugs depending on your musical taste :) http://blip.fm/Dave_Winter

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Thursday, 22 August 2013

Some of the dogs I walked last year at Appledown





Lots of other dogs to view looking for a forever home at Appledown
  http://www.appledown.co.uk/

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Video outside Dunstable and District Boat Club on the Grand Union Canal

This week it was too hot to walk the dogs at Appledown Rescue Centre,  this is their facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/groups/68892502164/   so I went down to Ivinghoe walked the towpath and made a little video with my small camera. The quality is not too good but it's a start for the first time,just don't enlarge the frame as the picture distorts and at the moment I don't know why.


Sign outside the boat club.


This is a view towards the boat club.


And this is a view in the opposite direction looking across the fields which are ready for harvesting.


Nice eh! I took several shots of this for a landscape view but yet to learn how to join them all up.

I had a chat with a couple of boaters that were moored up and one wanted a dog preferably a greyhound to keep him company. Unfortunately the rescue dogs cost £150 and he could not afford that. That seems a lot but the vet fees and heating costs are very high and have to be covered somehow. It was nice to get away from my caring duties even if it's only for a couple of hours a week but I always make the most of what time I have to myself, it makes you appreciate the little things in life. Next week it's back to the dogs weather permitting.