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There was a Big Birthday cruise in October, being pampered for a few days on LordOfTheGlens on the Caledonian Canal in Scotland: sadly they no longer offer whisky to go with the porridge, but it was still a first trip to Scotland since lockdown. As side-trips there were visits to Wansbeck, Berwick-on-Tweed, Perth, Loch Tay, Firth of Forth bridges, Holy Island, the Stockton Barrier, and the Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge, More Firsts Since AccursedVirus: busride, tramride, and a few more pubmeals, all while continuing with daily three-to-four mile walks. |
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Copperkins
had a new bottom welded-on
and
Fulbourne
began a complete rebuild, including a new bottom.
Copperkins was eventually ready for just-the-one long trip, including both the IWA Festival of Water in Burton and ... |
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Ringing: ... the third attempt at a non-Zoomed
Central Council of Church Bellringers' annual meeting in Nottingham.
After which we cruised through Leicester, Braunston, and back to Streethay.
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Also delayed from 2021 was our 50th consecutive Southampton University Bellringers'
Dinner with a side-trip on the
Hythe Ferry.
Resumed regular Sunday evening ringing alongside the morning, and still walking to both. Iain helped to organise a national weekend ringing course in Lancaster, which we joined. There were side-trips to waterways in Preston, Lytham, Lancaster and Middlewood on the Manchester Bolton and Bury Canal, following an earlier visit to Meccano Bridge at Prestolee, |
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The 12-week loft-building project had almost been completed by its 12-month anniversary, and still leaving us with some decorating and much tidying to complete. After a summer's rest, some of the decorating is done. ... |
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Comparing 2022 with 2002, the old wooden windowframes were more elegant ... |
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Elaine: The new loft room is fully equipped with two treadle sewing machines,
and a new
overlocker.
Complicated for re-threading and useful for completing a project
from a sew-your-own swimming costume sewing course.
Organised a second bellringers' Grand Day Out in Harrogate, a swansong for the last year as Convenor of the Yorkshire Association's Education Committee. Still ringing the occasional Quarter Peal and getting to grips with coursing orders. Still a volunteer at Broomhill Community Library. |
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Peter: A selfie of our delegation at the
Central Council
AGM - and also still ringing the occasional
Quarter Peal
Continued to spend a couple of hours each day with old waterway pictures on a message-board as a 'Tonic' to cheer us up in gloomy times. Gloominess, which begun with the AccursedVirus, has continued with war in Ukraine, runaway inflation, and the Climate Emergency. After mid-March we were around the year for a third time. January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December, ... On a cheerier note, the new tome "LizT's First Hundred Days" seems to have gone into its own decline ... |
| Cartrips have each had a canal-visit to collect more of those 2022 Tonic pictures. Locally to RivelinValley, Tinsley, Sheffield Basin, Rotherham, Eastwood, Attercliffe, Ladybower, Staveley, Cooper Bridge, Leeds, and on the water-taxi, Knostrop, Elland, Castleford, Stanley Ferry, Ferrybridge, Selby Canal, Fairies Hill, Swinton, Brighouse, Mirfield, Elsecar, Salterhebble and Wakefield. |
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Further afield we visited
AspleyBasin,
Huddersfield,
Marsden,
Diggle,
Slaithwaite,
SowerbyBridge,
Saltaire,
Wetherby,
Bishop's Stortford,
Gainsborough,
West Stockwith,
Toddbrook Reservoir,
Curdworth,
Pocklington,
Brigg,
and
Lichfield Canal.
There were also longer trips: boating from Liverpool Docks into the Mersey and the
Ship Canal.
Also to Braunston, a ride on the River Cam through the Backs, Knowle, Lindisfarne, a week in Whitby and Scarborough and a weekend in Hull. |
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Iain joined us in Southampton for the SUGCR dinner and is ringing handbells afterwards in picture here: He also rings more
Quarter Peals
than we do.
We Zoom-with-Iain most days; he works-from-home in Warrington - close to the Manchester Ship Canal, the Bridgewater and the Sankey Canal - with the occasional visit to Sheffield and says the new visitor's bedroom is like a Premier Inn. I don't think it was intended as a compliment. |
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Here's to 2023 |
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