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Curly Wurly Day
When I said, yesterday, that today would be a curly wurly day I didn’t realise it would involve a snake. We set off from Sneyd Junction this morning, to travel to Wolverhampton, to reach the start of the Wyrley and Essington Canal (and to buy a copy of Canal Boat Magazine – see previous Blog). A contour canal with many twists and turns and known to some as the Curly Wurly. It was a slow journey with many visits down the weed hatch to clear the plastic bags from the propeller. It was on one of these occasions that the snake popped its head up as I opened the weed hatch. It swayed there looking at me, its head about 12 inches out of the hatch, while I wondered what to do next. Then great relief as I realised it was a length of plastic tubing, rather like a vacuum cleaner hose. Several feet of it were wrapped in a complicated knot around the propeller and the loose end must have been just under the hatch waiting to spring out. After some time with a hacksaw I began to think a snake would have been easier to deal with. 
Although there was lots of weed along the canal it could easily be shaken off the propeller with a brief burst in reverse. The dozen trips down the weed hatch were all to remove man-made rubbish, like plastic bags, carpets and net curtains. Most of the rubbish we saw looked quite new, it’s not old stuff from years ago which hadn’t been cleaned up, but new stuff still being dumped. We’re back at Sneyd Junction now, ready to head in the opposite direction for a Wurly Curly day tomorrow. Posted on Thursday, 6 September 2007 at 19:29 Comments (0) |
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