Today we have come down from Longport in Stoke on Trent to just south of Stone.It has been a beautiful day and we have worked methodically through umpteen locks, calmly doing what needed to be done. Feeling very mellow as we putt, putted slowly through Stone, we were suddenly assailed by a contorted face through the side hatch of a moored boat. The poor man was ranting that he'd had his boat across the canal that afternoon because someone had gone by too fast, and continued to rant on as we continued gently past....I felt sure he was about to burst something.... then I noticed the name of his boat: Tranquillity!
I think every boat going by was getting a bit of it, despite the fact that none of us had been the culprit. It made me wonder how many other inappropriately named boats there are in the system, Harmony, Free Spirit,Happy days etc. Tonight in the middle of nowhere we looked up into the dark night sky and saw millions of stars...true tranquillity.
