What with all the canal closures down our way due to lack of water, it was ironic to get an email warning from CRT at the weekend of potential flash flooding and strong currents at the bottom of the Hanwell flight on the Grand Union. That's where the river Brent empties into the canal . I suppose the Brent runs through a lot of built up areas with water run off. Well there was some very heavy rain but I don't know what the result was down there. Of course the storms of the weeknd did freshen things up a bit, but they would have done very little to ease the reservoir problems.
Meanwhile how about this little poster we saw in a pub in Shrewsbury.
Sound advice I suppose. I'm surprised something of the sort isn't seen in some canalside pubs. Canal towpaths are not wide at the best of times and some of 'em can be very narrow and slippy not to mention pitch dark. In our years as boaters we've heard of quite a few people drowned in the canal after a night on the booze.
I'm not sure when we'll get back out to Herbie, marooned as she is in the now sealed off Cropredy marina. We'll probably go up and stay aboard to do a bit more painting. I just hope she won't be sitting on the mud.
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