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To Open Life Aboard – the Wessex Rose THE WESSEX ROSE ‘LIFE ABOARD’ Issue 1 1 The Wessex Rose ‘Life Aboard’ www.wessexrose.co.uk [email protected] 07881 287320 Issue 1 – Winter 2013/ 2014 ‘LIFE ABOARD’ BRINGS YOU NEWS & UPDATES FROM THE WESSEX ROSE IN THIS ISSUE So What Was All The Fuss About? Wasn’t 2013 was just like any other year? June January Get to know the K&A. Final filming with George Clark for the TV series, interviews with the Boat in Milburn’s, agree design features, internal Yorkshire Post for their feature. First guests specification, equipment, paint, an endless list. arrive for our very first cruise. Meeting the banks, Karen setting up accounts, the VAT man etc. Web site to sign off, time to July leave our full time jobs. Glorious hot summer arrives and bookings February continue. Welcome guests from USA, Australia, 2013 A strange year Canada, South Africa. Caen Hill flight closed Boat taking shape, becoming obvious which is David & Karen break down a hectic year into a very twice just as we arrived! the front! Engines delivered, more staff arrived brief synopsis. More ‘in depth’ stories will be related to work on the boat. Packing up home to move August in later issues. Page 1 to a caravan near the boat, sad farewells at More guests, a 90th birthday celebration and we work. starting to find out feet just in time for 6 weeks Warning! David light heartedly relates a painful experience that March of back to back cruises without a day off. seemed to amuse the guests. Page 2 Joining the team at Milburn’s full time put us in September the thick of it and ‘hands on’. Coldest March on A full month cruising with guests, on duty 24/7, Cook’s Corner Page 2 record, and only one thing colder than a caravan no days off, the summer weather holds and life in March is the Milburn’s shed! is great. Living History Book Page 3 April October Launch date put back. Everything for a home, a Dozens of jobs on the boat that had been left Cruising Update Page 4 hotel and a boat to be obtained, all the highest over the summer, move the boat for dry of quality. Caravan stay could not be extended, docking. move again, into a Travel Lodge. The tempo TV Fame Page 5 increased to frenzy as the launch set for the 1st November of May A day in dry dock for engineering, move boat to Amazing Spaces Facts Page 5 May winter moorings. Finalize year end accounts. Wash & polish boat, repairs, service engines. Page 6 Launch day, the sun shone. 2 cranes, a specialist Engineering Bits trailer and a 12 mile journey. 6pm and she finally December slipped into the water, our first night ‘on board’. Christmas, planning New Year Cruise, stores Weighing Up The Facts Page 6 Final commissioning and learn to drive!! Long and decorate for New Year, moving boat to journey via the Grand Union & Thames to the start of cruise. Welcoming guests again. The ‘End Bit’ Page 6 K&A Well isn’t that a normal year?? 2 One can only assume that these little critters have territorial limits as, crossing some invisible line, they retreated presumably to Did You Know? Do you always assess the damage to their once bijou residence leaving their victim with 4 stings to WASP - FACT NOT FICTION have to ask why? the head, several on the arms, 2 or 3 round the By David knees and, as if seeking revenge on the feet ♥ Wasp venom makes other wasps more that had caused the problem in the first place, aggressive Aren’t we always taught not to jump from boat several stings around the left ankles that ♥ A sting ‘should’ wear off after 24 hours promptly swell up like the proverbial football to bank, but, have you ever stopped to ask ♥ A male wasp mates with the queen and yourself why. leaving the innocent perpetrator incapacitated, traumatized and in no little then dies Was it too far to leap? –No degree of discomfort. ♥ Only female wasps can sting Was it wet and slippery? – No ♥ Wasps are light sensitive so sleep at night Was it a steep bank? - No The wasps having had their revenge were Were there other boats maneuvering – No superseded only by the kind guest who ♥ Wasps travel up to 400m from a nest Were there people, dogs or cyclists – No pointed out that I have left a mooring pin on ♥ Nests contain between 5000 & 10000 the bank, guess where, yep right alongside the wasps So what could possibly go wrong? Well take remnants of a certain, well-guarded, nest!! ♥ Wasps do NOT die after they sting heed of the warning, don’t jump unless you are 100% certain there is not a well camouflaged ♥ Wasps can sting over and over again community of wasps right where you are about How long did you say a wasp’s to land. Woken from their mid-day slumber, or memory was?? disturbed from their daily toil, these tinny little insects become raging lunatics, intent on revenge and the destruction of the owner of the feet that had demolished their abode. The natural response is to run down the tow path like a man possessed but then you find out wasps have the speed of Mo Farrah and can out distance you anytime, you shout and scream like a banshee only to find out they are deaf, wave arms, mooring pins, hammer and windlass only to find you might, if lucky, strike one of the ten thousand strong swarm and suddenly the murky waters of the canal seem an attractive option. Haggis Fact File ¾ inch diameter and lay in the middle of the ‘Cook’s Corner’ chicken. Scotland, Scandinavia, France & Rome all Balotine of Chicken stuffed with Season well and then with the assistance of the claim to be the birthplace of Haggis Haggis and wrapped in Prosciutto cling film tightly roll the chicken, surrounded by the ham round the haggis. When rolled keep Oldest known Haggis recipe was written in rolling in the cling film and then tightly twist the Lancashire in 1430 Ingredients:- ends. Now roll in a second sheet of cling film as tight as possible, seal the ends with plastic clips The first vegetarian Haggis was developed 1 small Chicken Breast per or knots and chill in the fridge for at least an in 1984 person hour. 1 Haggis (Vegetarian The Chinese have a brand of children’s Set a metal roasting tray on the hob, half fill with Haggis is nice) nappy (diaper) called Haggis 3 Slices Prosciutto water and heat to just below the simmer (do not Ham per Chicken boil) add the chicken rolls still in the cling film Pickwick Papers was the only Dickens and keep just below the simmer for 10 mins. novel to mention Haggis Lay each chicken breast between 2 Take out of the water and rest for 10 The official world record for ‘Haggis sheets of cling film and mins before removing the cling film Hurling’ is 217ft set in 2011 firmly beat with a rolling pin and frying the rolls in olive oil until until less than 1/2 inch thick. (try nicely browned all over. In 2007 a Veterinary journal published a and keep to as near a rectangular Slice each roll at an angle into 4 or 5 pieces spoof paper on the use of ultrasound in shape as possible by beating in different and serve. Haggis breeding directions) I like to serve it on a bed of cauliflower puree and Lay out the 3 slices of ham on a new piece of In 1786 Rabbie Burn’s wrote the famous 8 accompany it with Clapshot (potato & swede) cling film, put the beaten up chicken on top and versus of poem ‘Ode to a Haggis’ asparagus and a mustard and whisky sauce. then roll some haggis into a sausage shape about 3 A Living History K&A Key Facts THE ONLY TUNNEL ON THE K&A Building Started in 1794 Completed in 1810 Originally called the Savernake Tunnel it was Engineered by John Rennie constructed using over 2 million bricks, most of which were made at the Canal Company’s Budget cost 1794 was £336,364 brick works at the side of Caen Hill lock flight – 19s – 4d in Devizes. Its portals are capped with Bath Actual cost by 1810 was Stone and after construction 2 Bath Stone £979,314 – 7s – 9d plaques were installed above the openings. Linked Bristol to London Sponsored by the Canal Company it names the tunnel the Bruce Tunnel and inscribed the 87 miles long tablets ‘In Testimony of the Gratitude for 105 locks OK so there is a small tunnel under Cleveland the uniform and effectual Support of The 215 bridges House in Bath but most would consider that as Right honorable Thomas Bruce Earl of 1 tunnel 502 yards long a bridge for the road and the foundations for Ailesbury and Charles Lord Bruce his son’ Summit 450ft above Sea Level Cleveland House, so, let’s look at a ‘real’ tunnel. Original Barges 70ft long & 14ft The tunnel took 3 years to build from 1806 to wide 1809 and in its day was the biggest tunnel At 502 yards (460m) long the Bruce tunnel is profile ever built. It was big enough to take the Kennet Barges could carry 70 by no means the longest canal tunnel in the Kennet Barges but had no tow path so horses tonnes country but nevertheless it has its own place in were walked over the top and the barges, with 1 waterwheel driven pump to history.
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