Showing posts with label canoe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label canoe. Show all posts
Sunday, 8 July 2012
No Charlies deep - oh no!
Those of you that have been following my blog for a while will know all about 'the Charlie' as a way of measuring depth.
Also those of you that have been on the website, www.haroldtheplatypus.co.uk, and have seen Charlie will know that he isn't very tall. So one Charlie isn't very deep.
Well, this morning we decided to go out in our canoe (to take our minds off the tennis). We were happily going down the stream when we heard an awful scraping noise. Oh no Charlie shouted the water is no Charlie's deep! We've run aground. He was right the scraping noise was the bottom of the canoe.
At first we didn't know what to do and then I decided that we should both get out of the canoe and lift it further along the stream to where the water was deeper, which worked brilliantly - well done me!
We had a lovely time for the rest of the morning, but I did have to tell naughty Charlie to keep a very close eye on the number of Charlie's the water was, to make sure we didn't run aground again.
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Laters
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Sunday, 2 October 2011
Two Charlies!
We've got a canoe! Whooppeeeeeeee, it's great! Especially as Steve does all the paddling.
I'm too busy standing on the front navigating! 'Captain on the bridge' everyone shouts.
We were out today paddling up and down the little creeks in the salt marsh.
I have the very important job of deciding which way to go (although I think Steve can't always hear me when I'm shouting GO LEFT, as sometimes he goes right). I've even tried waving my paw in the air (he mustn't be ably to paddle and watch or listen at the same time - poor Steve!)
It's very important not to go too shallow as Steve says the canoe might get stuck!
So I've got a system ........ If it's less than two Charlies deep we have to turn around.
Steve says a Charlie isn't a proper way of measuring but what I think is - we all know how tall Charlie is and he isn't very tall so, two Charlies fits the bill. We can go quite shallow and everyone can picture how deep it is. Well as long as Charlie doesn't start standing on his tippy toes to make himself look taller, like he did today. That just ruins the system - naughty Charlie!
I did start to laugh thinking of one hundred Charlies stood on top of each other - yes that's right it was sooooper doooooper deep - told you it was a good system!
Off for a cheese and pickle sandwich and a glass of milk all that paddling has made me very hungry!
Harold
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I'm too busy standing on the front navigating! 'Captain on the bridge' everyone shouts.
We were out today paddling up and down the little creeks in the salt marsh.
I have the very important job of deciding which way to go (although I think Steve can't always hear me when I'm shouting GO LEFT, as sometimes he goes right). I've even tried waving my paw in the air (he mustn't be ably to paddle and watch or listen at the same time - poor Steve!)
It's very important not to go too shallow as Steve says the canoe might get stuck!
So I've got a system ........ If it's less than two Charlies deep we have to turn around.
Steve says a Charlie isn't a proper way of measuring but what I think is - we all know how tall Charlie is and he isn't very tall so, two Charlies fits the bill. We can go quite shallow and everyone can picture how deep it is. Well as long as Charlie doesn't start standing on his tippy toes to make himself look taller, like he did today. That just ruins the system - naughty Charlie!
I did start to laugh thinking of one hundred Charlies stood on top of each other - yes that's right it was sooooper doooooper deep - told you it was a good system!
Off for a cheese and pickle sandwich and a glass of milk all that paddling has made me very hungry!
Harold
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