THURSDAY. A morning day of larder re-stocking was declared, two rucksack bearing pensioners could be seen heading over the new footbridge towards BW Leeds offices. A large yellow notice attached to their wall announced ‘Offices to Let’. Could it be that the new Leeds office is readily accessible and heaven forbid, right next to a river capable of navigation by BW licence holders?
We visited Morrisons and the Leeds market as two heavy rucsacks would verify. We have plenty of moveable ballast for the foreseeable future. A visit to the Royal Armouries was made; they have a large collection of – well – armour and plenty of weapons. Unfortunately, the exhibits were arranged in such a fashion that we found it difficult to pick up their pattern and sequence. In retrospect, we think that we cannot have been that interested in armour or weapons. For those of you that are; there can be no doubt that the collection is large and easily seen. However, a visit to the small satellite Menagerie court building and the collection of Birds of prey made the day for us. The Falconer was a friendly, approachable and very knowledgeable of his subject. We thought that the best marked one was the Perlin, a Peregrine/Merlin hybrid; but all of them looked good.
We spent the evening with Pauline and Duncan on their boat, which is a triumph of layout design, a true floating Tardis!
Weather showery, very strong wind (again!)
The 2008 journey thus far: 206 Locks & 332 Miles & 19 Swing\Lift Bridges
Journeys using bus pass: 14
