Boats travelling along the River Thames in Abingdon normally have the necessities on board including a galley kitchen. Favorite meals for boaters include roast dinners, and bacon, eggs or sausage sandwiches.
However boaters going through Abingdon Lock are advised to lock up those enticing cooking smells.
A notice has been erected warning that such cooking is prohibited at the lock, and such items will need to be passed to the lockstaff for safe disposal.
What’s this about? Really, the world’s gone mad.
It’s a joke noticeboard… There to provide some humour…
These guys do a great job & to make us laugh as well,lovely to see its brightened my day.
Oh great – sorry to be so slow. Roast swan okay?
The lock keeper has to get his dinner somewhere, he’s a long way from town.
I remember in the good old days Lock Keepers used to cook you a fry up while you were in the lock, pour you a glass of wine then serenade you on the tuba while you sailed merrily downstream. those were the days. Summers were long, winters were crisp and you could get sixteen blackjacks for a penny.