Retirement with No Problem

Today – Moored Aston Cut, River Nene
Thursday – Wadenhoe to Aston Lock, River Nene, 5.5 miles, 3 locks

We pulled the pins on Wadenhoe on Thursday morning.  I like it there, the village is lovely, the mooring is lovely, but it was a reverse out for both No Problem and Moore2Life..

The moorings by the pub are up a bywater, so it means reversing back past a tree that really is stretching a long way out as you can see.. once back it is just a matter of lining up for the lock to the left behind Moore2 Life in the pic.

It was great to have son Tony aboard the last few days, we spent some quality time together, and he was so helpful in looking after Lucy with us… Taking his ‘watch’ in turn with us.  He had ample time though to lock us through the locks yesterday…

We popped into Oundle Marina to do the cassette loos and fill with diesel and water.  A shock to the system because the diesel was 59p a litre.  Now that is the most we have ever paid.  At this marina we paid 37.5p this time last year.  “It’s the oil companies…”  I though “Yeah yeah yeah *sigh*” Well a hike of over 20p in one year, that has to be a huge percentage.  The road users of diesel have not had that percentage put on their fuel this year.  I wonder if the pink dye they put in ours has gone up in cost somewhat!!   Won’t be too long at this rate, that we will be paying the same price as the motorists do..

We have settled for the weekend at the delightful moorings just above Aston Locks, affectionally known as ‘Aston Cut’.  We didn’t stop here last year, promising to do so this year, and we are not disappointed.  The weather has cheered too, much warmer today, although that wind is still coming from the north, and there is a slight nip in the air….

Tony and I went walking this morning, it never fails to amaze me what surprises are round the corner you know…

High in a tree this peacock was. Tony went off back to Peterborough from Oundle around lunchtime for the National Express to take him back to Portsmouth.. I was sad to see him go,  it’s always a pleasure to have him around.  Oundle is a lovely market town, I might pop in tomorrow for a while as we are staying here the weekend.  Then on Monday is is hotfoot back to Thrapston.. Renee has to take Lucy’s stitches out and check her over..