Muffin woke me
up quite early this morning by making his silly little noise. He was sitting by the bed and I told him to
go back to his bed. When Richard gets up
Muffin is allowed up on our bed and I realised that the poor dog was cold! I put him under the duvet, and he snuggled
into me. I felt a really bad Mother!
We were
expecting a Sainsbury’s delivery between 10am and 11am. I got a phone call to say that it would be about
15 minutes. We walked up to where the
bins are as the pub seems to have taped off it’s car park. We waited and waited and eventually 35
minutes later the van arrived. The
driver apologised and said that the Sainsbury’s satnav had taken him all over
the place, and in the end, he had used his phone to navigate. We got the shopping back to the boat, put it
away, had a coffee in the lovely sunshine and then set off down river.
The Lock Keeper
was on for our sixth and final trip through Pinkhill Lock. The Lockie there has a lovely Cockapoo with
long legs. Muffin has short legs (but
don’t tell him I said that) so I wondered if we could take some of Riley’s legs
and give them to Muffin then we would both have Cockapoos with the right sized
legs! I took this photo while waiting
for the Sainsbury man. Muffin may only
have short legs, but I think he stands really well for a cross-breed.
I’d seen this
flood mark at Pinkhill before but never noticed that there is another
handwritten mark in red from 2007. I
think I am usually too busy looking at the flowers.
As we
approached Swinford Bridge we saw a lone swimmer with a pink hat on, as we got
closer, I realised it was a man. Isn’t
is strange how one associates pink with a female. Anyway, I asked the chap if it was cold and
he said that it is this month.
We pulled over above Eynsham Lock to get water and then we pulled back onto the public mooring and had lunch. We realised that the river really was quite busy today. We shared the lock with a hire boat who knew what they were doing as regards steering as they had spent many a holiday on the canals, but it was their first river lock and it was on self service. We also shared the lock with the three Venetian rowing boats we had seen yesterday. They were a bit worried that there wasn’t room for them, but it was fine, and we let them down the lock slowly. At the bottom of the lock we dumped the dumpables and then continued on our way.
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