Hello Again
Now I know we still have at least one reader she called us today, it was Carole one of our avid readers and her husband Graham, they are looking to live this life and are looking for a boat, so they are going to a Marina on Saturday and wondered if we would be in the vicinity so that they can come and have a have a chat with us about boatey things, “that’s what we boaters do”, Richard and I used to love chatting to other boaters before we took to the water and if we could get a look on other peoples boats and chat about their lives we would have done it every week, any way Carole and Graham I hope you can get down to Stratford on Saturday it would be lovely to see you but if you can’t then see you when we do. It would be lovely if all of our readers send us a contact message now and again just to let us know you are really out there !!
I wrote last on Sunday the 14th March
when we were stopping for Sunday lunch at the Moorings “that’s the pub we stopped at Leamington Spa, had a lovely lunch and stayed there the night and then on the Monday we sailed to Saltisford, which I have written about before, it is in Warwick but it is just a little arm where you can moor safely and plug in to the shore power, however it was pretty packed and we were moored abreast of “nb.Nobby” , now moored abreast of too those that don’t know means you are moored abreast of another boat of course !! well it means climbing on to and over the other boat, but Ian and Alison were lovely, Richard went home to King’s Lynn on Tuesday for a few days so I stayed with the boat and the dog, when I am on my own I am a little afraid to go too far on my own up the canal, it’s probably o.k but I don’t go too far, but I asked Ian off “nb Nobby” if I could walk with him and his dogs Katie and Bandit the next day, well he walked my hind legs of but it was a real lovely walk we went all the way back to Leamington Spa up the canal and then followed the river back in to Warwick where you come out by the Castle and then walk back through the town to the boats at Saltisford, about 64 miles all together, but I managed, the next day we went a different way and ended walking the Warwick race course, a shorter walk only about 40 miles, but lovely to see abit of the place, so thanks Ian for taking me.
Richard came back on Friday with a lovely surprise gift for me, which was a new Lumix Camera the TZ7 version, which has a more powerful zoom than the one I lost in the canal, that one was x10 and this one is x12 so when I put up some new pictures you will be able to say if they are any better, “thanks again Richie” Saturday Richard stayed with the boat and dog whilst I caught a train to Tamworth to go to Joey and Jayne’s for Kimberley’s eighteenth birthday party, they had a Marquee in the garden, it was a lovely do’ and I stayed with them for the night. I will put up the pictures when I get some big power.
On Sunday 25th Stuart and Emma, who
were also at the party, took me back to the boat closely followed by Joanne and Andrew who were coming to stay with us for the night and then help us up the Hatton flight of 21 locks, Stuart and Emma went to the castle and home after having a cup of tea and some cake, but Jo and Andrew with puppy Molly walked the flight with us on Sunday afternoon and we had lunch at the Waterman Pub at the top, don’t know if the sight of all those locks scared them, but they stayed anyway, so we had a couple of glasses of wine and a few games of the card game monopoly, “that I did tell you about in another entry” a lovely night.
Monday morning Andrew took the car and Rio to the top of the locks and then jogged back down, by which time we were ready for the off, and the rain held off whilst we did them, we were just heading into the first lock when another narrow boat came along and joined us, who also had two crew as well as the driver, so I had it very easy, Joanne had lunch ready for us when we stopped at the top and after eating they went on their way home, back to the rat race that is London !! thanks alot Jo and Andrew.
Since then we have just been taking it very slowly to reach where we are today back at Wooton Wawen “we were last here in July 2008 when we first set out if you want to read about it” I have got a hair appointment for the morning which was lucky as my hair seems fine one day and then the next it’s as if it’s grown far too long over night and I am desperate to get it cut!! There is a little complex of shops right next to the canal which is where the salon is, so I will be sorted tomorrow, then we will take off to the start of the locks that are closed until 4pm tomorrow the 26th which will take
us in to Stratford and you will know what happened there last time we were there? Yes I broke my toe “not used to the boat then” anyway enough for now, so until the next time.
Take Care
Lots of Love
Chrissie Richard and Rio x x |
