The river had dropped a little this morning, but nowhere near enough to think that it would be open later today. The BW guys thought it would be at least Wednesday before we could go. Heddi has to be back at school on Wednesday, so we returned to Parkend and left the boat there. Parkend
We drove back up to Frampton yesterday afternoon and stayed there for the night. Then, this morning we came up to Saul Junction to get water and wait for Rachel, Steve & Emily. Rachel has mobility problems and it’s easier for her to get on there. Unfortunately the weather was not good, but we took
Heddi’s sister Val and her husband Dave came at about 11:00. The weather wasnt very good, but nevertheless we took them for a short ride up to Saul junction, moored up, had lunch then chugged back. When they left at about three we went also so that they could accompany us to the garage to
Another horrible, grey rainy day. We got a call in the morning from daughter Nikki, “Are you still on the boat?”, “Can we come and visit?” They had to abandon their camping holiday because of the weather so now were looking for places to take the children on day trips. They joined us for lunch,
Saturday was spent in London attending our nephew’s wedding. The reception was held at Lords Cricket Ground – very smart! We drove back this morning, called in home to drop off some things and collect others then drove to Patch bridge. After unloading the car we chugged up the canal to here, then walked back
During the night the weather had worsened considerably. The wind was now gusting to 40mph, there were large waves with breakers on the canal. A large GRP cruiser just ahead of us had come partially untied. I was about to get dressed and try to retrieve it when some other boaters did it. I had
No visitors due today so we thought we’d go for a little chug down to Sharpness. The weather was turning pretty miserable and the wind was picking up. By the time we got here it was raining hard and blowing a gale! Most of the day was spent looking out of the windows at the
Woke up, went to the loo, the red light came on showing that the holding tank was full! Luckily we were only half a mile or so from the DIY pumpout machine at Saul. So after breakfast we called at the service block. This entailed two windings as the pumpout fitting was on the ‘wrong’
With Mike’s help I spent the morning changing one of the batteries. The battery bank on JH was arranged rather oddly. There are three domestic and one starter battery. They were laid out DDSD. I wanted to replace the starter battery as it had been going flat if left for a week or two. So