Moved up onto the Blue Line (dock reserved for locking) late last night.
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Undervalued: Jeremy Clarkson
The pre-season rumour mill has Manchester United purportedly offering Barca £24million for Cesc Fabregas. For just over half that sum the Red Devils could buy Jeremy Clarkson. The divine JC took home a £14million salary from the BBC last year for his work on Top Gear. That’s fourteen million reasons to pay the license fee, if you ask me. Continue reading “Undervalued: Jeremy Clarkson”
Where did everybody go?
I know it’s the silly season – Dog Days even – but so many cherished charioteers seem to have evaporated into cyberspace. OZ, Bravo and Nym to name but a few former stalwarts.
If you have personal contact with them, please give them a bell or a rocket – whichever appeals…….
Madam & Eve T shirts
This made me smile yesterday. From my Madam & Eve cartoon strip in my daily read 🙂
St. Anne de Bellevue to Carrilon – Saturday July 13
Made the second locking out of St. Anne on a very busy weekend traffic day.
Then out into the expanse of the lake, heading West, nothing much up front
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St. Lambert to St. Anne de Bellevue – July 12, 2013
Out of our lagoon at 8:00 am to make our next lock at St Catherine’s, 9 miles later we are held there for commercial traffic, one coming up
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Contrecour to St. Lambert (Montreal) – July 11, 2013
Made an early start to try to get locked through at least one of the big locks on the ship canal. Painfully slow progress south towards Montreal, revolutions for 8 knots but only making 4 over the ground (that’s why people do not do this trip in this direction) the river currents are against us all the way from here to Ottawa.
Another of the biggies, they look pretty inconspicuous at first…
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Little local difficulty
We’d better send an sms to LW to ask him what to do now
St. Antoine to Sorel to Contrecour – July 10-11
Catching up here more to follow.
Through the last lock on the Richleau (St. Ours) early on Tuesday 9th. Out past this little guy coming up river against the flow, the river is still in flood and the outgoing current carries us along at about 10 knots (well above our normal cruising speed)
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Kings billboard
I frequently drive past this billboard, it always brings a smile.
By way of explanation, three of our domestic rivals are the Natal Sharks, Free State Cheetahs and Northern Transvaal Bulls 🙂
My Southern Kings played their final 2013 super rugby match yesterday and yes, you’ve guessed it, lost. But winning was not the purpose of our foray into super rugby this year.
Boadicea's Chariot 
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