Yesterday was a very easy jaunt up from Bugbrooke. It's a truism on boats that as soon as you fix one thing, another breaks. Yesterday's breakage was the speedo! On startup it was jumping around as normal, then as soon as the engine fires into life (eventually), absolute zero on the speedo... Not a huge problem, I can navigate by engine noise and visual speed alone for a while. Perhaps just a loose connection?
Woken up at 6.30am by a full-on peal of bells from the church at Weedon - now that I think back I think the same thing happened to us the last time we were here! Is this a daily occurence? (They should put this kind of thing in the Nicholson Waterways Guides! Along with the sections where no mooring is permitted and updated water point locations!) It lasted a good ten thousand years, which was disconcerting. Minutes after the bells had died down, one of the first trains of the morning barrelled through the village right beside us too... I laughed! Sort of...
This morning I jumped on the bus into Daventry and came out with a few things, most importantly a CO Alarm, which I am going to fit this afternoon, in preparation for the arrival of the wood stove one week from today!
A few photos that should have made it into the blog a while ago, in chronological order!
Shillingford Bridge on the Thames (around the 9th October)
Passing Wallingford!
The best house in the world ever? Somewhere on the Thames...
Wils sporting his new, aerodynamic cratch design - the one he created for himself with his friend The Great Tree of Henley...
The "Adventure Moorings" at Henley!
I was hoping we wouldn't be thrown against this in the night...
This was as close as I could get to the bank! Someone needs to build some more moorings on the Thames! Anywhere! The middle of summer must be impossible...
Fast forward to Watford, Wils being lifted to have his water intake unclogged... (Me shivering with nerves not pictured.)
With the rain clouds in place it was nearly completely dark by 3.30pm today. Which is why I'm also pleased to say that new interior lights are on their way!
Are you sure it was a full peal? A full peal lasts three hours! 6:30am is extremely early to be woken by bells. I think we have moored there four times and have never encountered the church 'alarm clock'. All very mysterious. I don't think bellringers (even keen ones) would start ringing that early!
ReplyDeleteOh ok, not a FULL peal, but it was full-on! :D
ReplyDeleteIt sounded to this layman just like wedding bells too, hmmm...
Maybe the bride and groom couldn't afford to take a day off work?
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