Nice Hedge to Water!

Floatyboatyhome got stuck!

Today started off a bit lazy after all of yesterday's hard work. Then I took Daddy walkies to get some shopping while Mummy stayed home and did a load of choppy-stirry-bubbly stuff and she made a big blob of that funny gooey stuff that grows bigger in the bowl and then she bashes it about and it grows again, then she puts it in the hotcupboard. I wonder....if I could get to eat a big blob of that stuff, would I grow a bit?.......

Anyway.....I got a towel attack when we got home! Heehee! Leakyskies almost always get me a towelrub!

Mummy and Daddy munched some of Mummy's bubbling stuff and some of that gooey stuff-turned crunchy. Then we set off on a cruise. I just enjoyed a lie down on the back deck watching the water and all the featherballs go by. I took Mummy for a nice walkies on the way back again though. We didn't stop where home has been for the last while. Instead we kept on going - and that meant we had locks to work! Yippee!

Even more yippee-ey was that, because this is now very familiar territory, and with a super good towpath, Mummy didn't really need me to work fully, so I got to enjoy a free wander with her. We did a lot of to-ing and fro-ing while she did windy-uppy on one lock, then went back to windy-downy on the previous one, and pushy-pully stuff of the big heavy beams to let Daddy and floatyboatyhome out of one lock, and then into the next.....

I still looked after Mummy though. I didn't let her get very far away from me!

It was all going well until Daddy started to chug out of one of the locks, and got stuck. There was a big lump of tree-leg wedged between floatyboatyhome and the wall. Daddy attacked it with a big long stick and Mummy was pulling really hard on the boat's lead, but it wasn't working. Then another manhuman joined in and tried to help pull, but still no good. Then Mummy did windy-uppy on the gear at the top of the lock, so the water gushed in again. She then pulled REALLY REALLY REALLY hard on the boat lead again and it super slowly moved backwards, so another manhuman could prod the tree leg with the big stick and get it out of the way. While all this was going on, I just took the opportunity to lie down and chill out watching all the kerfuffle!

So, we finished the locks - all six of them and then cruised a little way further to our new home for this evening. I'm not sure I fully approve of this mooring; it has a road very nearby so I am not allowed out without being attached to Mummy or Daddy with my lead! There is a nice hedge to water just beside us though!

Photo shows me lying down atop the lock, facing toward the left hand side. The canal is behind me and I am lying on grass with one front paw slightly tucked under itself - all very relaxed and chilled out. :)