tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11311723.post2886042551035838667..comments2023-12-01T10:35:12.938+00:00Comments on Boatlife: Cruising Aboard NB Valerie: High Summer on Crack HillLes Biggshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06200731053479474814noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11311723.post-81729143856359188792014-09-25T17:27:14.780+00:002014-09-25T17:27:14.780+00:00Hi Alistair,
You're on! We look forward to vi...Hi Alistair, <br />You're on! We look forward to visiting Abingdon, seeing you, meeting your lovely family and seeing the sites!<br />Take care, <br />Jaq and LesXXMrs. Jaqueline Biggshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14248541763708771727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11311723.post-11054224311874592912014-09-23T18:56:05.137+00:002014-09-23T18:56:05.137+00:00Hey Jaq and Les, Wayland's Smithy and White Ho...Hey Jaq and Les, Wayland's Smithy and White Horse Hill are a half-hour drive from Abingdon... The offer is there when you get here!<br /><br />Cheers<br />AlistairAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11311723.post-73721054463771017392014-09-05T16:53:38.629+00:002014-09-05T16:53:38.629+00:00Looking forward to seeing you two again too.Looking forward to seeing you two again too.ann nb oakfieldnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11311723.post-84158867519763759592014-09-04T16:48:09.155+00:002014-09-04T16:48:09.155+00:00Hi Ann,
Thanks for letting me know about W.H. Dav...Hi Ann, <br />Thanks for letting me know about W.H. Davies. I always have room in my cap and my heart for another good poet.<br /><br />I am looking forward to the time we can cruise back up the Leicester arm and keep going. <br /><br />Les is doing grand and we are slowly heading back down to Cow roast to prepare for his final surgery. Then we will light off to winter on the LLangollen. Hope we catch up with you and Keith soon. Tea and cake on NBV. <br />Hugs to you both, <br />JaqXMrs. Jaqueline Biggshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14248541763708771727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11311723.post-48617263726012363862014-09-04T16:43:39.176+00:002014-09-04T16:43:39.176+00:00Hi Steve and Ang (NB Tumbleweed),
Thanks for the l...Hi Steve and Ang (NB Tumbleweed),<br />Thanks for the lovely poem! the sentiments are too, too true. <br /><br />Hopefully one day soon our paths will cross and we can sit with a cuppa and apiece of cake and share stories. <br />Jaq and LesMrs. Jaqueline Biggshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14248541763708771727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11311723.post-15340959638115119302014-09-04T16:39:04.312+00:002014-09-04T16:39:04.312+00:00HI Jojo! Yep Half the berries are gone already! Mi...HI Jojo! Yep Half the berries are gone already! Miss you darlin' and wish you were here.<br />Love Jaq and PappyXXXMrs. Jaqueline Biggshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14248541763708771727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11311723.post-78840243582688248752014-09-04T16:37:32.576+00:002014-09-04T16:37:32.576+00:00Hi Chas,
We will indeed check out your book. Obvi...Hi Chas, <br />We will indeed check out your book. Obviously you've been busy while back on land.<br />Hugs to Anne, <br />Jaq and LesXMrs. Jaqueline Biggshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14248541763708771727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11311723.post-39442894411899606692014-09-04T16:36:02.506+00:002014-09-04T16:36:02.506+00:00Hi Mike,
The Ashby is one of our favorite canals....Hi Mike, <br />The Ashby is one of our favorite canals. Good blackberrying to be had there indeed. <br /><br />We are headed slowly back to Cow Roast now as the possibility of Les' final surgery looms ahead. When we meet up again I will have a loaf of homemade bread with your name on it. <br />Jaq and LesXXMrs. Jaqueline Biggshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14248541763708771727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11311723.post-83498648102017686342014-09-04T15:02:05.085+00:002014-09-04T15:02:05.085+00:00Hello, This is one of our favourite stretches of c...Hello, This is one of our favourite stretches of canal too and we have enjoyed many wonderful walkabouts hereabouts.<br />Btw, the above peom was by W. H. Davies, who lived in my hometown for awhile!<br />Glad Les is going from strength, to strength, lifting up that heavy beacon just proves it!Wozie nb Oakfieldnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11311723.post-25618082691012788802014-09-04T14:49:52.615+00:002014-09-04T14:49:52.615+00:00Hi Jaq and Les
Lovely blog-great pictures. I'm...Hi Jaq and Les<br />Lovely blog-great pictures. I'm up on the Ashby at the moment and loving it. Off blackberrying myself later-crumble tonight. Got to get off the boat now anyway as the bloke next door is baking bread and the smell is driving me mad with hunger!<br />Be lucky<br />Cheers<br /><br />Mike<br />IndependenceMikeWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04094792444424123629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11311723.post-85018735127572462992014-09-04T12:20:05.375+00:002014-09-04T12:20:05.375+00:00I think you need to lock up those blackberries, th...I think you need to lock up those blackberries, they will be gone in a flash if you turn your back :D <br />I've forgotten how beautiful it is up there. <br /><br />hugs and kisses to you both <br />mwah xx <3 <br /><br />JojoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11311723.post-19132022669493202672014-09-04T10:12:11.845+00:002014-09-04T10:12:11.845+00:00Wonderful views from that hill. When I went up th...Wonderful views from that hill. When I went up there the sheep had escaped and had got across the bridge! Keep fit by going up once a day!<br /><br />Please try my book ‘Life With a Narrowboat’ now published in 3 parts down loadable from LULU in ebook format. Click on the LULU button in my blog. ChasChas and Annhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16948405148748704032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11311723.post-2015461183504184132014-09-04T09:59:46.613+00:002014-09-04T09:59:46.613+00:00Hi Mike,
Yep Les says he can see the faint pinpri...Hi Mike, <br />Yep Les says he can see the faint pinprick of light at the end of this tunnel and its not a train!<br /><br />We will make note of your recommendation for one of our travels by tire instead of rudder!<br />Love and hugs to you and Phyll, <br />Jaq and LesXXMrs. Jaqueline Biggshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14248541763708771727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11311723.post-65576874626978039162014-09-04T09:55:36.578+00:002014-09-04T09:55:36.578+00:00Hi Dave,
Yep those turbines can appear as a bligh...Hi Dave, <br />Yep those turbines can appear as a blight on the land--although the ones in the U.S. are quite a bit smaller and shorter than the typical American turbines, which are massive. <br /><br />I included them because they illustrate the marching of the centuries--from the ancient hill, to Crick village church, to 21st century turbines. It is all written on the landscape. <br />Cheers, <br />Jaq Mrs. Jaqueline Biggshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14248541763708771727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11311723.post-6979275801325627652014-09-04T09:53:23.654+00:002014-09-04T09:53:23.654+00:00Thank you Sue! We look forward to seeing your and ...Thank you Sue! We look forward to seeing your and Ken soon and having a great long catch up. I watch the purple Martins dip and dive and they make me think of Ken in his air force plane, swooping and diving. <br />Love and hugs, <br />JaqXX Mrs. Jaqueline Biggshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14248541763708771727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11311723.post-73807840597606157332014-09-04T09:51:34.502+00:002014-09-04T09:51:34.502+00:00Hi Jesse!
Oh it's lovely to get a comment from...Hi Jesse!<br />Oh it's lovely to get a comment from you. Les is far more photogenic than me. But he says he will see what he can do to get more snaps of me. <br />Wish you all were here to enjoy this with us. <br />I love you to the end of the universe--and back again!<br />MaMrs. Jaqueline Biggshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14248541763708771727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11311723.post-71237034137878998332014-09-04T09:38:24.147+00:002014-09-04T09:38:24.147+00:00Les, congrats on getting this year out of the way....Les, congrats on getting this year out of the way. May you have many more.<br />Jaq, keep watching those hilltops, much pre-Christian, pre-Roman use of them and the signs can be found.<br />Try and visit Wayland's Smithy on the Great Ridgeway in Berkshire sometime, you will need wheels of some sort to get there. We drove there in 1986 on a grass public road, but the status of that may have changed.<br />Mike & Phill, nb GARNET, back at Fazeley Junction.Mike Muirnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11311723.post-78101784246795158782014-09-04T08:44:43.033+00:002014-09-04T08:44:43.033+00:00Thanks for a wonderfully evocative post.
What is...Thanks for a wonderfully evocative post. <br /><br />What is this life if, full of care,<br />We have no time to stand and stare.<br />No time to stand beneath the boughs<br />And stare as long as sheep or cows.<br />No time to see, when woods we pass,<br />Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.<br />No time to see, in broad daylight,<br />Streams full of stars, like skies at night.<br />No time to turn at Beauty's glance,<br />And watch her feet, how they can dance.<br />No time to wait till her mouth can<br />Enrich that smile her eyes began.<br />A poor life this if, full of care,<br />We have no time to stand and stare.<br />William WordsworthAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11311723.post-48329948323788192472014-09-03T20:26:27.460+00:002014-09-03T20:26:27.460+00:00Lovely landscape photos,except the one with the wi...Lovely landscape photos,except the one with the wind turbines :-)Dave Winterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01539649470204455884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11311723.post-7760482933735954172014-09-03T20:20:28.038+00:002014-09-03T20:20:28.038+00:00Jaq,
What a beautiful piece - the descriptions an...Jaq, <br />What a beautiful piece - the descriptions and the photos are so evocative. Your readers will be with you every footstep of the way up Crack Hill and back down again! <br />See you both before not too long I hope...<br />SueBoatwifhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03095978885474363198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11311723.post-82858623402791345672014-09-03T19:29:39.967+00:002014-09-03T19:29:39.967+00:00Love, love, love the photos! Need more of you Ma--...Love, love, love the photos! Need more of you Ma--so glad you're cruising again! Love you both 1000 Swedish Fish Dragontatoohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04898600616450140382noreply@blogger.com