What’s in a name?

My, oh my!!  The people we are meeting on our travels are certainly educating us about different boating-related terminology!  Not all of it is very kind!
First of all, the type of boat:-
Is it a Cruiser? Plastic? Tupperware? Yoghurt Pot (crunchies easily) Gin-palace or Ocean-Waver?
Is it a widebeam, narrowbeam, barge, tug or working boat?  Ditch Crawler?  River Slug?  Chugga-Chugga?  Crusty?  Scruffy?
Hire Boat?  Private Boat?
No matter what the style or what the vessel is made of, it can always be a ‘Butterfly Boat’ (only goes out on sunny days)  or a ‘Static’ (never goes out whatever the weather.)
Then, based on behaviour, there are us boaters:-
A Floater or A Boater?  A ‘Rodney’ boatman? (technical term as listed in "The Inland Boat Owner's Book" - nothing what-so-ever to do with a certain R.W.Rogers)  A Swampy?
Residential?  Liveaboard?  Continual Cruiser?  Extended Cruiser?  Holiday Cruiser? 
A Fortnightly Freeloader?  Annual Moorer?  Winter Moorer?  Bridge Hopper?
One of the Shiny Boat Brigade or the Grimy Boat Brigade?
ENOUGH!!  No matter what the terminology we’re all in it together and …………… thank goodness we’re not all the same!!
Changing the subject completely:-

Can you believe it????

Today, thrown in the hedge by the side of a lane along which we were walking, was …………… a pair of walking boots!  They were John’s size too!!  Why couldn’t we have found his boots in that way?  I put them neatly together in the hope that their owner would be able to recover them!!  They had initially been discarded 50 yards apart.
We are currently moored at a place called Tattershall Bridge which is very close to RAF Coningsby.  We have been subjected to an intense, impressive and very loud air display at low levels – Tycoons, I think? 

         

We have been very lucky today – unlike other places in poor, battered old Britain we have had no rain and the evening is turning out to be lovely.  We had better make the most of it?  Aren't you glad it’s Summer?!!