Selby Sunday

Today was a 'doing' day - cleaning the house, getting the post-trip finances in order, weeding the rest of the garden, uploading all the photos from my camera to the laptop, ironing... So I took myself for a walk along the canal :-)

It's been a lovely warm day, so I thought there'd be more people around and about - perhaps they were all outside the pub! I've not been along the canal before - said hello to a few people on barges (narrow boats? long boats? I'm not sure what they're called) and dog walkers.

And I came across this, a tribute to Selby's shipbuilding (including Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior, apparently), canal trade (the canal was opened in 1778 - I'm not sure what the cannon underneath refers to!) and agricultural history. Selby Abbey was built under charter from William the Conqueror, whose fourth son, King Henry I, was born here. As were Cardinal Hinsley, Robert Aske and Tommy Cannon (ooh, maybe that's what the cannon's about) of Cannon and Ball fame.

I am in illustrious company.

God aften x