Boats

I'm home and able to back-blip. In case anyone is interested my son, a daughter, her partner and I collected a narrowboat on Monday afternoon for a few days away. I've been on the canals in the past but not since any children arrived and they were all newbies. I had planned to blip with my phone but I managed to get something stuck in the charging port on the phone so once the battery died my blipping stopped - this is the first of the back-blips to get me back on track.

We set off from Tardebigge on Monday and stopped at Hopwood House Inn for food and beer - both were great. On Tuesday we stopped for a beer in Birmingham before mooring in Dudley at the Black Country Living Museum for the night. This shot shows the canal arm in the museum, they have a handful of working boats; the boat in the foreground is in the Fellows Moreton & Clayton livery. This was a famous canal carrying company and the name is also carried by a pub on the canal in Nottingham. The museum is absolutely brilliant and we topped it off with a boat trip into the Dudley canal tunnel before cruising back to the centre of Birmingham for the night. After mooring next to the NIA we had a smashing Indian meal on Broad Street.

Now I'm back to sorting through the images to see which are worth processing - narrowboats do not make a very sympathetic photography platform; vibrations from diesel engines and lots of movement tend to blur shots but I'm happy with some of the stuff I've seen so far.