boatone
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Nice day yesterday, ran down to Hampton Court and moored up for afternoon. (h4nym cruised past on his way to his barby but ignored us completely.)
Anyway, had a bit of a pas de deux about wot to do for din dins cos didnt want to leave Bogbrush on board on his own (aaaahhh) so decided to risk losing mooring and took boat across to Fox on The River. SWMBO tells me big cheer when I did good job of arriving but I didnt hear it cos concentrating or just plain bloody deaf. Anyway, no tables free so sat with nice guy called Richard who has Fairline and may join forum cos I told him to.
Cut long story short kept being told no dogs allowed on patio but managed to blog it out until after got fed. Then manager turned up and said he thort he'd heard dog but couldnt see one so thort hearing fings (good wheeze with small dog cos can stuff it up your jumper). Any way, he said notice on way in so we said didnt come that way cos on boat ! haha......got hom there so bet next time we go there'll be notice on jetty and all due to Bogbrush so he'll be famous.
Anyway, we left then and went back across river but some b*st*rd had nicked our space so cruised further down past Kingston and thort ok stop at Teddington and THEN it happened............
Just passing Leander Sea Scouts HQ on Surrey bank when loud bang on side of boat...looked round and realised crowd of yobs on bank were throwing stones/rocks/bits of brick at us and other boats passing. Got hit a second time before getting clear. No damage but quite frightening and could have been bl**dy dangerous if broken windscreen or whatever. Vented anger by screaming something unrepeatable but VERY effective that was going to be.
Saw EA River Inspector on launch patrol this morning and advised them for info.
But......what would you have done.............
Oh yes....just to make it even more bl**dy annoying an hour later b*st*rd who nicked our space at Hampton Court turned up at Teddington so if we'd stayed in pub another hour we could have stayed at Hampton Court !!!
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Anyway, had a bit of a pas de deux about wot to do for din dins cos didnt want to leave Bogbrush on board on his own (aaaahhh) so decided to risk losing mooring and took boat across to Fox on The River. SWMBO tells me big cheer when I did good job of arriving but I didnt hear it cos concentrating or just plain bloody deaf. Anyway, no tables free so sat with nice guy called Richard who has Fairline and may join forum cos I told him to.
Cut long story short kept being told no dogs allowed on patio but managed to blog it out until after got fed. Then manager turned up and said he thort he'd heard dog but couldnt see one so thort hearing fings (good wheeze with small dog cos can stuff it up your jumper). Any way, he said notice on way in so we said didnt come that way cos on boat ! haha......got hom there so bet next time we go there'll be notice on jetty and all due to Bogbrush so he'll be famous.
Anyway, we left then and went back across river but some b*st*rd had nicked our space so cruised further down past Kingston and thort ok stop at Teddington and THEN it happened............
Just passing Leander Sea Scouts HQ on Surrey bank when loud bang on side of boat...looked round and realised crowd of yobs on bank were throwing stones/rocks/bits of brick at us and other boats passing. Got hit a second time before getting clear. No damage but quite frightening and could have been bl**dy dangerous if broken windscreen or whatever. Vented anger by screaming something unrepeatable but VERY effective that was going to be.
Saw EA River Inspector on launch patrol this morning and advised them for info.
But......what would you have done.............
Oh yes....just to make it even more bl**dy annoying an hour later b*st*rd who nicked our space at Hampton Court turned up at Teddington so if we'd stayed in pub another hour we could have stayed at Hampton Court !!!
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