Polly, Harry and a lovely Old Canal Bridge

You have some lovely walks PP , I have to take photos of old bridges , theres, something about them I cant resist :o)

How is Polly , is this recent on her walk ?

Lovely to see Polly walking seems to be enjoying it, lovely picture I too like bridges, Amy some of my friends are water gypsies, and the bridges have numbers on them, they always kept notes of where and when they were born years ago had the number of the bridge s they where born between noted.

Thats interesting Morgana , come to think of it how else could they keep an account of these things .. We had some friends who sold their house to have a narrow boat , they absolutely loved it . :o)

The narrow boat s can cost more than a house especially when they have to pay for mooring, also keeping the up keep of sealing the underneath,. lovely way of living though. I live next to a canal about 500 yds at the top of my lane. I can hear their horns go lol from my house. A lot of the working water gypsies with their families a lot could not swim believe it or not my friend her mother had 12 children also another family I know had 14 children thing of having that many children on one boat and working it too. I once drew the canal for a christmas card with a bridge for my friend for christmas, she said it was great but one thing missing the number of the bridge and asked me to put the number on where she was born on the canal. there are boards all along the canal by me with the stroies of the way the water gypsies lived their lives and what work was done there at different spots along the canal. and art work too

The photos were taken last year when Polly was well, Sadly Polly is no longer well enough to go out for walks but we are trying to keep her comfy and she does have good days when she enjoys short walks down the close. Thanks for your concerns Amy.

I,m sure she is comfortable and happy with you PP , she wouldn,t want to be anywhere else in this world , being loved and fussed by you and Harry x x :o)

Thanks Amy so sad though to see her fading!

I know how you feel PP we,ve been through it , still haven,t got over it , we saw a dog just like our old one today , I wanted to grab it and pretend it was our old Barney :o(

Its so Painful isnt it? but keep reminding myself of the wonderful times we have had and the most important thing now is to make sure that Pollly feels loved and safe with us,

I know that Polly will know that too and its alway s best to think of the good times and fun times you both have had. Lovely memories together is the best thing always, makes people happy looking back on them. They have now proven that is what makes peoples life happy looking back on good memories, not tv s or car, or money but memories.

Can totally agree with that Morgana! posessions just fade into the background when it comes to happy memories!

Yes possessions are a 5min wonder,

A lovely walk!

Thanks Bernieh ,

Morgana you are bringing the canals alive for me , I went to bed last night trying to imagine where the big familys slept on a narrow boat and how on earth did mum get the washing done for all those people and get it dry . ?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPU_MD5Pga0 This is how they done their washing and working on the canals they hung their washing across the narrow boats here is a link from you tube if you can t get this link just type in you tube then canal life narrow boat and go to the 20s working life on narrowboats or type in canal life past. If you ever hear the names Grantham family or Mc Donald family these are the people I know. How they are doing their washing this is how I use to do my washing all by hand and wringing it all out by hand too. Look carefully and you will see the in the beginning the washing hung across the boats, and a woman washing by hand .The part of loading the coal at Coventry is where I live and the chap shoveling look to me like Mr Grantham.

I,ve looked at the youtube Morgana , it was so interesting , my husband watched it as well , gosh they did have a hard life but then it was normal for them , thanks for showing it to me :o)

Your welcome make s you think how idle some people are now a days.

I love those old canal bridges :o)

Looked at the youtube link too - fascinating! Thanks for the suggestion Morgana - always great to see how people lived their everyday lives.

Your welcome Bernieh , lol m I was liveing like this is the 70s no bathroom no wahing machine, had to drag a tin bath into the kitchen to bathe the children and myself , there was no roof on the house in 2yrs I lived in it, prior to that I was homeless living in a car with my 2 children.

Morgana , we were in Warwick I don,t know 5/6 year ago when the Morris dancers were there , there were dozens of groups , it was a hot day ,we were there by accident we didn,t know this was going on , it was one of the best days we can remember , we loved it , do they have this on the same day each year .. if so when is it ?

I will ask my brother as he lives actually in the town it self, it would of been May as that is what the Morris dancers celibrate May, I would guess if so yes it proberbly would be but I will check for you.

Thanks , it would be nice to be there again at that time .............

what a lovely walkway PP