Cruising at last

We left our winter mooring at St. Mary’s Marina, Rufford on 1^st June. The Canal & River Trust advice is only continuous live aboard cruisers can travel, otherwise you can only do a day trip and not stay on your boat over night.

Bye-bye St. Mary's

It is wonderful not to be cooped up in between two other boats and to have the bird feeder up.

We have celebrated three family birthdays at the end of May & into June, via Zoom of course. We had two birthday cake bake-offs with 7 cakes all over the country. Samantha’s cake theme was hedgehogs.

John’s cake theme was trains.

We are continuing to boat boarding school the grandchildren when mum & dad are at work. It is so much easier for them to have fun, now they can just run up & down the towpath. 

We made some tiny rafts with sticks and tied them together with plaited grass.

We are finding new routes for our ‘walk to school’ and met this lovely carving yesterday.

I washed all my baskets before we left the mooring (with endless supply of water) ready to display our wares when we actually open ‘Jubilee Fibres’.

We have had a couple of lovely evenings with this amazing sunset that looked like the hedge was on fire!!!

The highlight this week was seeing a barn owl in the late afternoon. The first day we hadn’t got the camera handy. So the next few days John was armed with his zoom lens, and we weren’t disappointed.