Over
the last week we’ve spent a few days inside and outside the M25.
The last few days we’ve been moored at Kings Langley, just down
from my sister Louise’s house. It was lovely, she came for dinner
straight from work last week and our niece Alice dropped in to show
her nan, Linda, the boat on Saturday and then she took us back to their
house for dinner. Louise noticed someone put a photo of our boat on
the Kings Langley Facebook page on a frosty morning I guess just as
we’d lit the fire as there was smoke coming out of the chimney.
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| Home Park bridge |
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| Sun rise over the M25 |
Yesterday
we caught the train from Kings Langley to Euston to attend the London
City Orchestra’s autumn concert, Edmund plays double bass with
them. It’s been 2 years since we last attended a concert he’s
played in. Afterwards we had dinner at Pizza Express curtsey of
Tesco rewards!! We got to London nice and early so we could have a
stroll around Camden Lock Market and of course do some gongoozling
too.
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| Hampstead Road lock |
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| Camden Market hall |
A
couple of weeks ago we caught the National Express coach to Hitchin
for the 4th
‘Festiwool’, a lovely one day event that’s run by one of my
friends from Hitchin Stitchin. We helped at the first one but have
been off cruising the last couple of years. We had a look around the
show and I got some wool tops and John got some needle felting
equipment. I had a lovely long chat with the editor of ‘British
Fibre Art Magazine’, she recognised me from last year’s Burscough
Wool Festival, where we’d helped her carry her stock from her car
to her stall. I caught up with quite a few friends that I’ve not
see since we moved aboard. In the afternoon we manned the door. To
top off an excellent day just as the coach was leaving the M1 at junc
8 we saw a barn owl catching his tea on the verge.
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| Poppy display by Hitchin Stitchin |
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| Festiwool |
We
had a visit from Brenda (& Geoff) who I’d trained with at
Edgware General Hospital way back at the beginning of the 1980’s.
It’s so lovely meeting up with so many people we’ve not seen for
so long.
We
are stocked up with coffee beans as we were moored a few days by the
back door of Smith’s Coffee Roasters, gosh the daily smell from
there is amazing. Plus, we got 10 HUGE hessian coffee sacks which
we’ll turn into rag rugs.
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| Our neighbour |
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| An perfect source of fire wood |
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