Retirement with No Problem

Moored Wheaton Aston, Shropshire Union Canal

An enjoyable day today at Wheaton Aston, where Carol from NB Calypso came aboard to paint the front panels.. I like the way she paints, and all the rest of No Problem’s roses and castles have been painted by her.

I love the first coat of the roses, they always seem to me to look like a load of dogs..

Maybe I should have told her to stop!  But she returned this afternoon to put the final touches to the design..

And tomorrow I will take some pics of the finished panels as well as some other interesting art she did today.  I played Mrs Mop for a while in the warm weather before taking Lucy and Meg for a stroll ..around another of my favourite walks on this canal, once again not walked during the summer before, and I it was lovely, thoroughly enjoyed.

I spied these two working boats in the cutting just to the south of Wheaton Aston Lock..

It was from Salmon that we got the majority of our winter wood at the beginning of the year when the crew were felling beech trees just south of Cowley, so I stopped to have a chat, and they were telling me that they had a hell of a lot of work on.. the early summer weather had made growth much more than normal, but they were having to be careful leaving some trees and bushes alone because there was still some nests with chicks in.. They actually take photographs of those they leave.. dunno why.. heh maybe they have to justify not cutting something down!!

Tomorrow we pull the pins from here passing through Brewood before deciding where to stop over the weekend.