Jules59 wrote: ↑21 Nov 2021, 11:41pm
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Carrbridge on the LEJOG this year
how do you rotate pics on here ?
Wow, what a graceful looking bridge, and a lovely background.
Here's a waning moon I took a picture of yesterday morning on the way to the boot sale, it showed a red aura as a cloud floated across it and was reflected in the water beneath,on L&L canal swing bridge by The Slipway pub just past Burscough, West Lanc's.
They are replacing the lock gates at the start of the Rufford Branch of the L&L and have drained it by pumping out the water. The white building in the background on the left, is 'The Ship Inn' in Wheat Lane, Lathom, note that the pint glass in the foreground of the picture is still almost full.
Apparently a local 'supping' legend, is that a young Royal Navy rating fell in whilst on Shore Leave over 50 years ago, 'he didn't spill a drop', one awestruck youthful Public Bar 'regular' said recently, 'I think they said his name was Mick or something'. '
'It happened just after two bells', croaked an elderly local known only as 'Old Salt', who was sat unnoticed in a dark corner of the bar, slowly savouring a large tot of 'Lamb's Navy' whilst pulling as hard on his second 'Senior Service' of the day as his raddled lungs would allow, praying he avoided the new Landlord's wrath by sitting next to an open porthole.
'.....'The old Landlord was always good for a drop of 'afters' ' he said; appearing quite misty eyed as he recalled 50 odd years of his 'misspent' youth. ' The bloke clambered out of the drink and asked for another pint, he said 'this one's cloudy' , I was there that night, I know' ; After recounting this likely story he politely hawked into an adjacent spittoon as if in admiration of the fondly remembered young Matelot's style ... took a deeper swallow of his rum, and resumed his study of a damp 1972 copy of 'Navy Times he'd just stumbled upon laid on the towpath.
Having heard enough of this nonsense, the Landlord piped our storyteller abroad with a hefty shove and these words, 'Get aht' (he was a despised southerner), yer can't smoke in boozers anymore 'Pugwash' - and take that .......parrot wiv you, it's eaten all me nuts off the bar.
The assembled Audi and 4x4 owners resumed their deep fried squid starters 'marineated (sic) in it's own ink', and tutted amongst
themselves at the type of people allowed in 'their' pub nowadays, and silently resumed noshing their 'fine aquatic dining experience'.
Who knows, it may even be true !
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