Retirement with No Problem

Today – Moored Linford Park, Milton Keynes, Grand Union Canal
Yesterday – Water Eaton to Linford Park, 7 miles 1 lock

I should be sending out postcards to the South Coast!  Hey you lot down there, I have a sun tan!  Awww such a pity I hear it has been cloudy and foggy while I have been sunning it here in Buckinghamshire!

Amazing what a little bit of yellow warm stuff does to the brain.  Just everyone we met on boats or towpath was smiling and in happy mood.  Still the last month has been quite cold.  This is just what the Doctor ordered for all those who brave narrowboats in the winter.  And here is me out with Lucy in just my shirt sleeves!

Funnily enough this ‘best day of the year so far’ brought out all that is spring.. I saw today for the first time this year, butterflies, bumblebees, ladybirds, those tiny blue flowers that live in the grass around poughed fields AND…… wait for it…… Hubby Vic take out the wardrobe a short sleeved shirt!  So that finally proves it… Spring is here!

Left late yesterday after bussing it to Bletchley to the butcher there to fill the freezer compartment.  Then of course I had to retrace my steps on a walk I did sometime back when I found all the gates padlocked and barred off footpaths over a farmers land.   Obviously my subsequent complaint to the County Council has done the trick, and there are now not only no padlocked gates, but also some sparkling new gates with user friendly openers! 

Linford Park is full at the moment, well there was enough space for us to get in just…. some of the boats I recognise here from our last visit in December though! ..

So today….. Fishing!  Fishing all day today! Roach and Bream was the catch. This was followed by watching the rugby.  I told Vic that if England lost to Scotland today, I would never watch them again….. thankfully I will be watching them again.  I am very pleased though that they were playing an awful lot better than they did at the beginning of the torny.

Colin didn’t appear today… he did poke his head in just as we arrived here yesterday, he was on his way back from work… the kids have not been too well he tells me… they might pop in tomorrow though….