Photo-a-Day  (Wednesday, 23rd August, 2023)

Good pic Gill, it looks like a long garden with a bunch of weeds growing on left hand side, wouldn't like fall in that.

That photo reminds me of the poem, "What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare?" Life looks very calm and unhurried there on that old bridge, and the cool shades of green all around it add to that somehow. A lovely, peaceful scene.

The green slime appears on canals during the Summer months, it's know as Cyanobacteria a toxic algae and can be harmful to people and animals. Be careful.

Looks like a field of grass or a large lawn.

Nice to look at but surely it could do with clearing. It looks thick enough to walk on …. !
Good photo Gill.

Dangerous bacteria that's a toxic algae or slime.

Looks nice but can been toxic.

Apparently it’s called Duckweed.

I am glad some one posted the common word "Duckweed". This Algae seems more common today and if its not the Green algae its the Blue algae. On the canal would have thought boat/lock movement would have broke it up?

A nice picture Gill . The fish must think it's permanently night with that great green curtain drawn above them .
I like the Frostian dilemma of the yellow arrow .

Is this to weed that gets caught up in boat propellers ?

I kills dog if they swallow enough, so keep them out of it.

No Helen the algae floats on top of the water.

Surprised no Wiganer as described it as Nanny Green Teeth?

At one time I bet that green gunge would not have grown in the canal, because the water would have been so polluted, but the water is so clean now, that Trout and Salmon could live in there now.

It's chickweed.Nothing to do with nanny green teeth.That is totally different.

I don’t think chickweed grows in water.

Right Kath, it will be duckweed, and there's nowt poisonous about it, I've a small pond and it gets full of it. Some folks are even selling it on eBay at around a fiver for a few tablespoonsful.

A different and more colourful canal photo Gill, are you any relation to Jack Hollis the milk delivery man?

There used to be a grocers shop at the bottom of Hardybutts (on Warrington Rd) I wonder if it was the same family. My mother used to shop there in the fifties. ( before supermarkets) I remember it as If it was yesterday.

Duckweed is only found in stagnant water and ponds not canals.

Always called it 'nanny green teeth' growing up.

I suppose ‘sticky bobs’ are a Wigan thing?
In t’borough?

There’s one or two posters on here that seem thick enough to walk on an all.

Alan, nothing would grow in stagnant water as it is devoid of oxygen, Duckweed is an oxygenator and is found floating in canals as well as ponds.
Dave and Elizabeth, Nanny, or Jenny Green Teeth is an algae also called Blanketweed which grows in strands under the water usually wrapped around reeds and other plants, which can push it to the surface.
See the silly named posters with their negative comments are back!

Veronica - was it Pomfret's? My husband was best friends with Barry Pomfret, and they had a grocery shop in Hardybutts.

Thanks all for your comments. Oh Elizabeth I'd forgotten about nanny green teeth - that takes me back a few years! You're spot on that's exactly what we called it.

The shop I mentioned Pat was Hollis’s grocery shop that Cyril referred to…. But the one you mention ‘Pomfret’ does ring a bell. I’ll ask about with one or two relatives. All long gone though..sadly.

Cyril, I remember Jack Holly's I thought the same when Gill put her name on. Also Veronica, Jack used to deliver milk to Maggie Greens toffee shop next door to school.Later when I got married he delivered ours as well.Nice photo Gill.

Hi folks yes Jack was my lovely dad. It's good to hear some still remember him and the grocer's shop.

So it's "Duckweed" so is it made out of Ducks ?

Gill, your dad was a real gentleman. Everyone who knew him, liked him.He was very we'll thought off.xx

We called it Ginny Green Teeth in Golborne

Dear Edna thank you so much for your kind comments re my dad it's much appreciated. Sorry for the late response, will post another on another photo when I see you pop up in case you don't see this. x