Elaine: Sort-of retired from sewer modelling courses, but with all those committees (4 ringing, 3 boats, 2 IWA, 1 lace, including chairing Fulbourne and IWA WestRiding) there’s even less time for tatting, spinning, and bobbin lace. The apprehensive look is after steering past the Thames Barrier. Wielded a grappling hook at the Birmingham canals clean-up and fished out a motorbike. Lavender Boat duties were Nottingham-ish this year.
Canalling: Covered five extremities of the canal system: London Docks, Bristol, Liverpool's new canal, Tewitfield (north of Lancaster), and Norwood Tunnel (Chesterfield Canal). It needed all three boats, Fulbourne, Odyssey, Copperkinsand six tidal passages to achieve.
Peter: Four years into retirement, taken over as a national Trustee of the Inland Waterways Association, which generates even more meetings. But the bedrooms did get reorganised, and the computers did get networked. And the post-office rubber-band-ball is now at at 5lb10oz with a boxful of bands still to add. Excellent family weekend on the Isle of Wight.Pictures
