As soon as the bridge keepers came on duty we chugged up to Llanthony pontoon to do a pumpout. We then had to wait until 9:15 for Llanthony bridge, but we were soon in the lock and off up the river. It wasn’t good weatherwise. Not raining but cold and windy all the way. A
Teresa and Brian picked us up from home and drove to Purton. We unloaded the stuff, Brian took their car to the car park and we picked him up on the was past. Then a gentle chug up to Hempstead. We had intended to moor up for the night between Sims bridge and Netheridge bridge,
We have been here for the last four days. Josh and Ivy came on Friday and stayed til Sunday. Unfortunately the weather hasn’t been brilliant, but it was OK enough for us to take a short trip down to Sharpness. A walk in the sunshine provided the opportunity to throw stones into the water at
Teresa and Brian joined us for breakfast in the ‘Black Shed’. This was my birthday present from them. Heddi drove to Oldbury for her choir practice in the afternoon and I did a few tidying jobs on board. Tomorrow we will move down to Purton and then stay there until we head back to Droitwich
We have been at home for a few days following some Cutweb activeity. First we went home for Lizzie’s birthday, then back up to Saul from where we drove to Stonehouse on Thursday. We did a walk along the Stroudwater into Stroud along with Andrew & Sheila and Alan & Sue At lunchtime we met
A day of visitors. Adam and Sian arrived at 10:30 and we took them for a chug up to Saul. We moored up and then retraced yesterday’s walk back to their car, then on to pick up our car. Meanwhile we had a call from Nikki saying that they were on the way. We told
A good day weatherwise. The clouds have gatthered a bit since first thing, but there’s still blue in the sky. Loads of bird song here. Our ‘Merlin’ song recogition app has detected 8 or 9 different ones. This afternoon I did a bit of maintenance. It started off with just scleaning up the locker where
This morning we went down to the WWT to give the car a bit more charge. It dint work properly the first time. So we had to have a second walk around and a trip to the cafe while it did charge the second time. The afternoon was spent on various maintenance jobs. Heddi did
Yesterday Steve & Lori came round in the morning for a cuppa and to natter about old people’s health issues! Heddi went to her choir rehearsals in the afternoon. I turned the boat around in order to work on the ongoing problem of the water ingress around the side hatch. The Smart needed charging this