WEDNESDAY 1ST TO WEDNESDAY 8TH
AUGUST 2011
I have been very tardy
with the blog, but such a lot has happened during the last week, all good, but
I will explain later. For now I will try to catch up.
On the 1st of
the month we did enjoy the river from a proper, twin engined river boat, courtesy
of David and Angela, we retraced our journey to Barford, unfortunately catching
the lowered windscreen on the narrow arch of the old bridge, shattering the
glass and twisting the frame. It seems that most boaters have made contact with
this bridge and having done so you gain automatic membership to the BBC
(Barford Bridge Club). It was decided that when the screen will be repaired the
hinges will have pull out pins, allowing them to be placed well in board and
out of danger, fortunately this incident wasn’t allowed to spoil this lovely
day on the beautiful river.
The next day in our
rented car we sped south, to spend a few days with friends and family returning the following Monday. On Tuesday Duggie had
a haircut, not so good this time according to Jacquie, but he looked fine to me, Jacquie also had a haircut, but hers turned out to be the best she had
had in a long time. A visit to a local dentist assured Jacquie that her detached
crown would not cause her a problem and could wait until we returned to Wigrams
to have it sorted, these matters can be a real problem when cruising for many
months.
We returned the hire car on Wednesday settled our bill at
Priory Marina and headed back downstream to stop just below
Barford Bridge, which being much narrower than our friends boats, we managed to
navigate without any problem.
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