Above Newbury Lock, Kennet and Avon Canal

I am beginning to get the message!

Though someone left the top paddle up 2" and a long pound was almost dry. 

The horse chestnuts are in flower.  I matted this picture onto white card, edged it with deckle edged scissors, then pink and silver card.

The pink ribbon was wrapped around the front and tied in a knot in the centre and a 3D butterfly was added in the top right hand corner.

Hungerford Visitor Moorings, Kennet and Avon Canal

They've mucked up my favorite bridge.  It used to be all overgrown and quite romantic in a broken down kind of way.  

A cold, damp day.  The grass was cut yesterday so the inside of the boat is covered with cut grass from our boots and shoes. 

These clumps of whatever always remind me of that Thing in the Addams Family.

After 13 locks and 2 swing bridges (one where I needed help and was watched by a male walker as I struggled and David had to moor the boat and come back to help), we had lunch in the Tuttie Pole.

Where are all the ducklings this year?  Apparently the first broods of Kingfishers this year were lost in the floods.  Maybe the ducklings went the same way.  We have seen only 3 since leaving Reading and there was only 1 there.  Come to think of it where are all the Moorhens too?

I matted this photo onto silver card and then onto some blue handmade paper before sticking it onto a blue card blank.  Then I added a daisy plant and butterfly.

Crofton, Kennet and Avon Canal

 A really early start, with a stop at Pewsey for water and then it was up over the summit, through the tunnel and down to Crofton.  The water levels were a bit more even this time, no overflowing locks but it was a pain having to trudge around the locks closing the bottom gates and lowering the paddles before we could fill the locks.  Some of them didn't even need to be left with the paddles up either!

Lunch in the K&A Trust tea stop in the pumping station - so here are a couple of cards.

This one the photo was matted onto silver, light green, darker green and even darker green card.

A green panel which had been decorated with a punch and had a green ribbon wrapped around it and tied in a knot was stuck down horizontally onto a blue card blank and the picture was placed on top.

This one shows one of the boilers in the pump house.  I matted that photo onto gold, red and black card.  I Cuttlebugged a piece of red card and matted it onto black card and wrapped some twine around the bottom.  They were both stuck onto a white card blank.

Honeystreet, Kennet and Avon Canal

Finally off again and heading East.  We called in at Devizes Marina to get our new accelorator thingy fixed and had a pleasant cruise in sunshine to Honeystreet where we stopped for the night.

I have been making lots of new cards for the shop at Greenham Island and this is one of them. 

One of David's photos was matted onto silver and green card.  The edges were deckle edged and stuck onto a green card blank.  Three green gems were stuck on the bottom of the card and a couple of paper dandelions were fixed to the bottom right hand corner.

Devizes Wharf, Kennet and Avon Canal

David went on the Wadworth Brewery tour today and met Monty, one of the two dray horses.

This is their tack room.

He came back with 6 bottles of their Jubilee beer!

And a card showing part of the wharf with the Kennet and Avon Trust building which houses a museum and shop.  I matted the picture onto silver, yellow and red card.  The red card was embossed with a frame and then matted once again onto silver card.  Then it was stuck onto a white card blank.

Devizes Wharf, Kennet and Avon Canal

You are cleaverer than me.  Just where do you/don't you moor?

And Duh!








We took a bus into Bath today and nearly bought an iPad.  Well, we did actually buy two, but came away with none.  The first one had marks on the screen, so we had to be given a credit note.  The second one would not connect to one of our emails.  So we asked for our money back.  But.  Because we were given the credit note they couldn't pay the money back onto our debit card so we are now waiting for them to credit us through the bank.

The bus goes down Caen Hill by the side of the flight and you get tantilising glimses of the locks.  The new marina at the bottom looked rather empty and forlorn.  Considering one of the excuses used around there for overstaying is that there are no moorings....

Anyway, here is a card with a picture of the flight.  I matted it onto gold, red and green card and made a panel by Cuttlebugging a piece of red card and matted it onto gold card, scalop edging one side.

Three red gems were added to the embossed flowers for a bit of bling.

Devizes Wharf, Kennet and Avon Canal

I'm beginning to get the hang of this zoom thingie on my camera.














Just one lock today and then down onto the long pound to Devizes.  The weather was lovely.  Stopped to get water in Pewsey and then just after we ran out of diesel!!!

  Fortunately, we have a jerry can with spare and not long after we found Tipton, a fuel boat, moored up so we got some reasonably priced diesel and were soon on our way.

Then it was on into Devizes and were moored up by noon.



 Heaps of the week?

Now here's a pretty boat.  Matted onto silver and red card and stuck onto a blue card blank.  The three red dots were cut from red card and covered in shiny stuff to make them stand out.