March Catch Up

 

This is a February/March catch up!!

The storms of February, with all their nice names, seem a long while ago. It was probably the worst wind we’ve had since we’ve lived aboard. The waves and spray were incredible.

John helped a chap re-moor his boat, while Lance and I headed back to make sure the fire was nice and hot.

Then John assisted the landlady of the Slipway pub rescue her bin from the canal. She paid us by buying us and our pals a drink.

Lance stayed for a few days. We met the rest of his family in Liverpool for a breezy wet day.

  We got a fuel delivery from Ambush.

As the weather was so dreadful, we only ventured out a few times. But we had lots to do indoors.

The boys swapped over and Magnus came for a few days. He enjoyed doing his knitting at the knit & natter session.

On going home day we had a crafty pint at ‘The Thirsty Duck’, a super mico-pub on Burscough Wharf.

We hired a car for a few days to head south for a ‘celebration of Mike’s life’. Our good pal Mike sadly died at the beginning of the year, but hadn’t wanted a funeral, as he ‘hated them’. Yvonne arranged an afternoon celebration tea with lots of wonderful photos & memories. Yvonne and I are now slipper sisters, as we loved the same ones, at Freya Jones craft shop.

While in the south we stayed at Louise & Paul’s and got to meet our niece & nephew’s new partners and one of them’s daughter. We were last at their house 4 years ago when we moored just down the hill from them for Ada’s wedding.

In addition, we spent a day in London with Edmund. We had brunch on a café boat at Paddington Basin.

 

Just had to have a tourist snap from London Bridge.

 

Had a great time at The Old Operating Theatre Museum.

Our Thursday knit & natter was disrupted by Jordan North, the radio 1 DJ, stopping there for his dinner break whilst rowing 100 miles of canal for Comic Relief.

A few pics of lovely mooring spots.

 

We were invited to have a ‘Jubilee Fibres’ stall at a ‘Wool & Wine’ evening, it would have been far too rude to say “no”.

John has put a new seal on our weed hatch. We met some people last year who had to be rescued on a river crossing because theirs was leaking. We aren’t going on any tidal rivers, but it’s better to be safe than sorry!!