Pitstone on the Grand Union Canal Today

After walking the dogs at Appledown Rescue Centre http://www.appledown.co.uk/  I had a slice of cake and a pot of tea at 

The Waterside Cafe,  Pitstone

http://www.pitstonewharf.co.uk/cafe.html

Live Writer Work Around To Post To Blogger

Now Live Writer fails to connect to my blog account I will try out this work around to see if it works.
I’ll describe what I’m doing as I go along.

1. First I have to write a post in Live Writer but don’t include any photo’s  yet, leave a line space for them to add later on…..

RUFUS

Take this line as my post as all this is just a try-out.

2. Click on the ‘Source’ tab in the bottom left hand corner of Live Writer    screen, this will display your text and the hidden format codes.

3. Highlight and copy all this text.

4. Load blogger and create a new post.

5. Click on the HTML tab which is top left beside the Compose tab.

6. Paste the text from Live Writer into Blogger.

7.  Click the Compose tab to check the formatting.

8. Add any photo’s using the blogger.

9. Preview and publish.

So has it worked ???????

I think it has.

Marsworth Today "C'mon put your backs into it "

Cowroast Lock and Paragliders

This week my four hours respite from caring was delayed by an hour as the relief sitter was late so couldn’t walk the dogs at Appledown Rescue which enabled me to go over to Cowroast on the Grand Union Canal and take some pictures as the weather turned lovely after a dreary start.
Here we have narrowboat The Hornet being single handed through Cowroast Lock.

On the way back I went over Dunstable Downs and saw the paragliders being flown so could not resist stopping and taking a few snaps.

Here we have one flying low with the London Gliding Club in the distance.

Now that I do shopping on the internet and get it delivered at home I find I am more relaxed when I go out on my ‘free’ hours as I don’t have to rush around so much.

Next week I’ll be walking the dogs ‘hopefully’ at

http://www.appledown.co.uk/

Marsworth Reservoir and tea on-board Narrowboat Valerie

 

This week on my four hours off per week from caring I decided to take Rufus my Springer Spaniel to Marsworth for a walk.The day didn’t start well as the stand in sitter was late so I decided to go on my own and have a walk around the reservoir and look at the lock gate which is being held in place with straps.

On the way up to the lock I saw NB Valerie moored up with Daz talking to Jaq through a window on board.

Returning from the lock I met up with Daz and had a chinwag as you do. Lovely to meet you Daz and keep those cameras clicking.

Narrowboat Lillyanne came out of a lock as I was walking back so not to waste an opportunity I took a picture.

Here is NB Valerie and Widebeam Still Rocking moored up.

 

I thought I would give NB Valerie a knock just to say hello as I have followed their blog for a long time and wanted to introduce myself, Les answered and I wished him well before making off around the reservoir.

On the way back to the car park Les called me over and offered a cup of tea on-board, well who could refuse.

After having a good chat ( don’t mention the Airhead Society ) it was time to go as I had to get back to my caring roll.

A lovely couple and a credit to the boating community who have helped them along the way. This is their excellent blog …….

http://boatlife.blogspot.co.uk/

And here they are

I hope to see you both again sometime

Take care.

I think someone likes dogs by the name of this narrowboat..

Rufus says Merry Christmas but keep off my stocking

 

I have had Rufus now for exactly 1 year and he is pure delight to have around. He is a trained assistance dog who picks things up off the floor if dropped,when he wants a treat he picks up the TV remote or the newspaper off the table and gives it to me. Such a clever dog who is loved to bits.

A Merry Christmas to everyone and would love to meet up with some of you on the cut in the next year, that’s if Rufus lets me.

Peaceful scene at Marsworth on the Grand Union Canal

This week it was too wet to walk the dogs at http://www.appledown.co.uk/  so went over over to Marsworth and took a couple of photos as well as talking to the owner of Narrowboat Willow Too which is a Beacon built boat and was featured on the cover of Canal Boat magazine last year. Stupidly with all the talking I forgot to take a picture so enclose a picture of it featuring on the front cover of Canal Boat.