CCCC - Cardmeet 2000, page three.

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Dinner on Saturday at the Red Lion Inn in Westbury-on-Severn was great fun for all. Everyone at the table where I sat would highly recommend anything on the sweets board. It is however, hard to believe that spending two hours on a church pew designed for Puritan worship is compatible with a fine dinner in the year 2000. Ask Marion about the seating arrangements.
	Sunday morning dawned a little cloudy, but clouds would never dim our spirits. Off we went on a hired coach for a tour that would stop first at the Over Canal Basin restoration site. With hard hats, in place, we soon were right among dozens of volunteers working to meet a deadline on a work in progress. Dave, the site director, took some of his valuable time to explain the work, obligations of the group, and what their vision is for the future of the site.
	Next stop - Blunder Lock. Here, we were lucky to see a small touring narrowboat in a lock of the Stroudwater Navigation - part of the Cotswold Canals Trust. Some of us tried our best to find the plastic bridge, but it seemed just out of reach for even the most hardy of this lot. Ian and Jo Wilson are seen at the right edge of this photo as Ian makes a video as a narrowboat exits the lock.
	At Purton, we crossed the Purton Lower Bridge on foot,
	and after a short walk, we had the chance to see a barge graveyard. Tony, Martin and I climbed to the bow of one of the old derelicts, where we had a wonderful view of the river and the opposite bank - where, there was another village named Purton. Over the years, sand has washed into these old barges and grass has grown. Both these elements, doing their special kind of magic, has strengthened the river bank, and now these old vessels protect against erosion.

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