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| River Went Aqueduct |
This journey took us an hour and a quarter traveling time. Usually when we visit the New Junction we moor just at the mouth of it where the canal meets the Aire and Calder, however after having had moored here several times in the past we thought we would head a few hundred yards upstream to the Sykehouse Lift Bridge.
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| Sykehouse Lift Bridge Moorings |
The moorings are excellent, with good mooring bollards and on nice clean concrete.
There is a decent village pub within walking distance, and Sykehouse Lock is not far upstream. Beyond the lock is Kirkhouse Green, Kirk Lane and Low Lane bridges and the River Don Adqeduct which merges off towards the Stainforth and Keadby Canal
and Sheffied and South Yorkshire Navigation.
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| Moonshine no mates |
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| Sykehouse Lift Bridge |
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| Burnt out Lock Keepers Cottage |
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| Sykehouse Lock |
Unfortunately, the lock keepers cottage that was once a happy family home has been destroyed by vandals and arsonists, but hopefully this will be restored and will once again serve as a good home for someone.
Saturday evening gave us the opportunity to test and display our new cockpit and transom blue LED lighting. This appears to be a great success!
We had yet again another fantastic BBQ, thanks to our Weber Baby Q1000 gas bbq on Saturday evening. On our old charcoal ones we never cooked meat as it always had a tendency to burn, and always stuck to the norm being sausages, burgers, mushrooms and corn on the cob...boring I know.
Our new BBQ is excellent, be it somewhat heavy, but is certainly quicker at cooking than even the Smev gas oven onboard.
Therefore for Sunday lunch we decided to try bacon, mushrooms and tomatoes for the first time. The tomatoes fell to bits since they were small cherry ones, but next time we will try larger ones. Writing this is making my mouth water and my mind turn over with ideas of black pudding...now that's a thought....
This Weber was an expensive piece of kit at around £150, however every time Peter cooks on it he likes to tell me how he wouldn't have bought it himself but it is a bloody good piece of equipment. With that in mind, and since he is the one that uses it, he can clean it!!!
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| Knashers |
After returning back to base, the Jacks were allowed off lead to attack anyone that felt the need to get in their way. Check out those teeth!!!
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| Ongoing varnishing project |
Always being busy with some project or other saw us partially dismantling the lower galley in our strive to re-varnish and make good all the woodwork on Moonshine. When we purchased her we knew it was very tired looking and had at some point in the past been abused by what we think were young children. Peter had previously taken home the saloon table, top units of the galley and the dressing table to strip and re-varnish. These look that good that they now pull the rest of the woodwork down, therefore the galley front doors to bottom cupboards (right) were removed, oven (left) and fridge (centre) removed for re-painting and tiding up of outer rim and to strip and re-varnish all fixed wood work to galley base. The grab rail was also removed to gain easy access to galley. Peter is going to be a busy bee for the foreseeable future, and we don't envisage having the galley fully operational for another 2 weekends. After that part of the varnishing has been completed he will then turn his attention to the bathroom, cabin and wardrobe doors.
Next weekend and that following week we will be looking after my mums Yorkshire Terrier Molly. With any luck when we return her Peter will miss having a 3rd dog so much he will relent and allow me to get another Jack Russell...He says dream on...
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