Thames Boaters Get a Shoal Warning, and the Narrowboat Consults Its Inner Puddle
A shoal downstream of Godstow Lock prompts official caution, careful boating and a narrowboat’s increasingly serious biscuit meeting.
Self appointed General once reported that a minor breeze in Lawnland was “a full-scale invasion by air-based insurgents.” Demands Lawnland form a navy, despite the nation having no body of water. Claims to have “seen combat” but later admitted it was just a particularly aggressive game of Monopoly.
A shoal downstream of Godstow Lock prompts official caution, careful boating and a narrowboat’s increasingly serious biscuit meeting.
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