Under in and Up - Monomad Challenge

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Under in and Up - Monomad Challenge
# Hail to the Hive!


The locks that enable us to use the canal system and traverse the landscape in a man made waterway are a massive part of the charm of the whole lifestyle. You can’t be in a hurry on the canals and on a day like today when we have 16 locks to do, it’s just gonna take time.

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They come on all shales and sizes but today this one gave me pause for thought. I am directly under a road bridge just before I enter a deep lock that will raise me and Badger the Narrowboat a few meters higher.
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@millycf1976 gets a proper workout doing the locks and some of them can be a bit heavy. You do start to feel it when there are a lot of them during the day.

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Stood under the bridge holding a rope attached to Badger I can hear the noise of all the road traffic passing overhead. A constant whooshing noise of tyres racing over the bridge above. I look at Badger and then at @millycf1976 opening the locks and take in my surroundings. It really does feel like we live in a netherworld living like this. I’ve said it before in a previous post but it’s like we are kind of back in the UK but in a parallel existence. Out there all fast, here all slow.

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It’s nice that we can dip in and out of it when we need to but the longer we live like this the stranger the fast world outside is becoming.

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I like living in my watery netherworld.


### Love a bit of #monomad 😜


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