Grumpy Gramps

Some more weird and wonderful boat names for your perusal .

Curly said that this would be the perfect boat name for me.

Never bored on the inland waterways.

Most people are familiar with the ‘Land Girls’; women who volunteered to work the land to aid the war effort during World War Two. Less well known, however, are their canal-based equivalents; known undeservedly as the ‘Idle Women’.

This nickname, derived from the initials ‘IW’ (for Inland Waterways) displayed on their badges, was given by native boatpeople to those women who volunteered to operate canal barges carrying vital supplies through the country’s waterway network.

Their numbers were small, some 45 women, aged from 18 to about 35, worked on the canals and waterways of England between 1943-46. Unlike the Land Girls, the Idle Women have never received any official recognition for their contribution to the war effort, although British Waterways (now the Canal & River Trust) unveiled a plaque in their honour at the National Waterways Museum in Stoke Bruerne, Northamptonshire in 2008.

You don't get many of these in the canals.

On the canals you can Lingalonga than on dry land .

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Lovely with a curry.

We do .

Not ever tried Lilac wine.

                                                                                       

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