Another lovely morning with ducks quacking and sheep baaing!
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| These are rather small for this time of year |
I didn’t sleep very well last night and I’m blaming Sue! She put the photo below on Facebook yesterday
and as I always sleep on my right side I kept on waking up and thinking that I should
be turning over!
Muffin had his steak breakfast – he couldn’t believe his luck and
wolfed it down. There is still some more
for tomorrow.
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| Napton windmill |
FL came down and winded just beside us before heading off to the
marina. We now have a week before
heading into the marina ourselves and going home for a few weeks for social
occasions :-) We are going to spend the
time just pootling around between Napton and Braunston. Richard had a bright idea of going up the
Braunston flight (6 locks) and down the Buckby flight (7 locks) then turning
round and doing them all again – strangely enough I objected to this idea!
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| View from the side hatch |
Richard wasn’t happy with being moored by the winding hole we set off
to find somewhere else. We pulled by The
Bridge pub but the people in the next boat had a cat so I thought we should
move on. Muffin loves cats but the game
is to chase them! We moved a few hundred
yards up the canal and moored up and that was it for the day! Other than reading I made another loaf
changing the flour ratio giving it a more wholemeal flavour. I’ll report tomorrow what it is like after we
have tried it.
Victoria made a visit to our house yesterday and we had a Facetime
session with her walking round the garden and house showing me how thinks
are! The lawn isn’t too long and there
are only a few weeds in the flower bed – thanks to the bark we put down. However the vine has become a triffid again
but does have some grapes filling out nicely.
I’ve been thinking about “Thames Totty”. If you read yesterday’s blog you will know
that it’s the name that Diane, Sue and I gave to our Viber group to keep in
contact with each other. We met Ray and
Diane two years ago and cruised with them for a couple of weeks and have met
them again twice for a meal while we have been travelling around with the
car. Sue and Andy we hadn’t met before
but they are lovely people and I’m sure we will meet them again somewhere. What the crews of Ferndale and FL possibly
don’t realise is just how much they have helped me through a very tough time
after my Mother’s death. I have been
very homesick – missing my children and my sister as well as my Mother. We haven’t lived in each other’s pockets even
though we have been moored close by. We
have had time on our own as well as lovely times in their company. It’s just been nice to know that they have
been there. I think that without them I
would probably have gone home only to mope there. Victoria and Laura coming to Oxford was a
great boost for me too. I know that I
will never stop missing my Mother but that it will become easier in time. Thank you Ray, Diane, Sue and Andy for your
unwitting support over the past few weeks.
1.33 miles
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