Our journey today was a “will we or won’t we” one!!
We left our pretty mooring and up to Kidlington Green Lock where I
found a single handed lady (and I don’t mean a lady with one hand!) in the
lock. I saw her through and got it ready
for Richard. I really had forgotten how
quickly these narrow locks work – great!
We went on to Roundham Lock where the single hander was just going in so,
again, I helped her through. I’m not
sure how she was going to get off the boat to do the lock as it is 7 foot 5
inches deep and she says she can’t get up on her roof anymore!
As we left Kidlington there is a sharp left hand bend under a bridge
carrying the A4260. A hire boat was
coming through in the middle of the canal and as soon as he saw us he put the
boat into reverse but that meant he had no steering so he just kept on coming
until he hit us – I guess that’s one way of stopping your boat!
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| Pretty cottages opposite The Highwayman at Kidlington |
At the first of the Thrupp moorings we found two boats aground. We had already noticed that the water level
seemed low and these two boats had grounded during the night. We towed one off and were just about to tow
the other one off when he managed to free himself.
So now it was “will we or won’t we”!
What? Get into Thrupp!! As we turned the corner we saw one space
which looked Mary H sized – it was! We
are the first boat on the 48 hour moorings. We won’t understand why there are more 7 day
moorings than 48 hour ones. Thrupp is a
honeypot and surely it would be better if the moorings freed up quicker.
When we had the Sainsburys delivery last week I bought all the things I
need to make Sue’s bread. So today was
the big day. It was mixed and kneaded
and then left to prove for 2 hours in our calorifier cupboard which is nice and
warm. Once it had doubled in size it was
kneaded again and put into its tin for a further 40 minutes. From there it went into the oven for
45minutes and then I got this!!!! I’m
thrilled though it is a bit wonky and we haven’t tried it yet!
Ray and Diane arrived in the afternoon and we all went to The Boat for
a meal. The food was good and we had a
good evening which was made even better by at last meeting the infamous
Maffi! Maffi writes a blog and is known
for his straightforward way of putting things!
His boat is called the Millie M and, on more than one occasion, people
have thought that we were Maffi as our blog is called “And Millie Makes Three”
and the boat is Mary H. It was really
nice to meet him.
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| Ray, Maffi and Me (taken by Diane) |
2.31 miles
2 locks
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