We were at Crick Boat Show for the jubilee weekend and had booked a mooring there. The last time we attended the show was 2015, and we camped there to get all the boating things we needed for when we moved aboard. Sadly, no doubt due to the pandemic, there were fewer stands, and we got nothing from our 2022 shopping list.
Just like our Edmund, this boat put up their bun-tin!!!!
Boat decorating done, we headed off to pick elderflowers for wine & cordial. This is a good shot of where we were moored, right near the north portal to Crick tunnel, and everyone was double moored.
Bank holiday Thursday, we took our chairs and first bottle of boat-made nettle wine up Cracks Hill for the lighting of the beacon. There was quite a party atmosphere up there. Sadly, it was a bit cloudy, so we couldn’t see the sun set.
The weather wasn’t the best during the show and as we were moored in a cutting under the trees it was pretty chilly, which meant there wasn’t the towpath tea party we’d envisaged!!!
There was music all day in the beer tent, which was really good. However, the main acts in the evening were a David Bowie and the next night Amy Winehouse tribute acts, that we weren’t too impressed with.
It was so good to catch up with some of our pals on the BOG*. There were 8 Braidbar boats in attendance. It was super the Braidbar show boat came 2nd in the voting for best in show.
We celebrated John’s birthday on our way to the show at the New Inn, right on Buckby top lock.
The weather was just right to go down Watford staircase locks. You have to book in with the lockkeeper as boats can’t pass on the flight. We had just over an hour to wait for them to set the locks and help 5 boats up before we could descend. So, I polished all the brass while we waited.
We are OFFICIALLY in the south, as we were moored up just south of Watford Gap, sandwiched between the M1 & the west coast mainline.
*Braidbar Owners Group
