A Look Back...

...to 2014!
We had visitors today, our friends, Jan and Chris. I've known Jan - the lady under the brolly - for about 15 years. We met at a music group when I was learning guitar and she played melodeon and our other friend Viki - bottom right -played fiddle. We have all remained friends though we don't see Viki much these days since we moved away but we keep in touch on Facebook.
It was Jan that made me fall in love with narrowboats. Her and Chris had one called Squeezebox and 7 years ago she asked Viki and I if we would crew on their boat to move it from Skipton to Wigan as Chris had a knee injury.
So we 3 women 'set sail' on the good ship Squeezebox and it took us a week. Frank and Chris then joined us at Wigan to help us down the flight of 21 locks - Chris could only supervise.

It was during that week - my first time on a narrowboat - that I got hooked. As a thankyou for helping they let us have the boat for a week each - Frank and I took them up on the offer. After that I went on and on and on about wanting a boat until 4 years ago Frank caved in and we bought Fiddlesticks.

So, today when Jan and Chris came I forgot to take a photo! We were too busy catching up. I just trawled through my FB photos to find these to make the collage. Oh what great memories the photos brought back.
We had so much fun that week.

Time for a bit of telly now. 
Goodnight :-)X