another day

Few days since blogging, reasons no connection to internet. 

The last few days have been recuperating from afore mentioned cycling incident, mobility allot better but its hell on earth when I sneeze of have the hiccups.

Woody moved our boat back up to Willington for numerous reasons; test the ongoing limping BMC 2.2 refitted engine number 2; 

We are only really allowed to moor on the cut a couple of weeks at a time or your boat gets a ticket;

As well as needing time and space . How to explain this without offending and becoming a target for revenge?  In life one meets people who you feel a connection with however there are those who appear to want to just argue, victims of their own life circumstances and therefore subconsciously  denying their own failings, thoughts and emotions and then this anger or dysfunctions are ascribed and projected onto others. These type of people often use displacement by taking out their frustrations, impulses and limitations usually by displaying aggression. This in turn leaves the receivers with a sense of bewilderment. They are also the great campaigners, canal curtain twitchers and verbally spout the rules and regulations according to their bible British Water Ways policy book who have rules for themselves but are ever ready to tell you what you are doing wrong in life! But these are few and far between thankfully. 

In the past few days being confined to the boat and the canal side with no escape route that didn't involve running, driving or walking too far I have come across the real boaters who want to share experiences rather than having rhetorical conversations about themselves. 

One such encounter is with a lovely guy by the name of Chiefster and follows the belief of Buddhism, so the time has been past with wonderful conversations, he bought his boat of one of the first people we met on the canal an amazing traveller and story teller by the name of Wilf who is in the process of building a Dutch barge. They say everyone is only six steps away from the any other person on this Earth therefore, a chain of a friend of a friend can connect us to two any other person on Earth, for example, "A friend of a friend" statements can be made, on average, to connect any two people in six steps or fewer. 

I have recently come to recognise who to trust and who I can learn from, Chiefster believes we have something to earn about ourselves even from the negative people.