Barking

I was tempted to open with a quip about Mary, but thought better of it. There may however be an Essex connection. The other day I heard the mournful wail of a steam horn and so went up to the wheelhouse to look. We often get steam engines on an excursion corssing the railway bridge about 250m upstream, so I assumed this was what it was. However, the noise continued and there was no locomotive to be seen. Then, round the bend in the river came this lovely steam tug called 'Barking', I'm guessing named after the town in Essex...

The river is a lot quieter now that the summer is over, so nice to see a boat like this.