Retirement with No Problem

Weekend and today – Moored Paxton-ish, River Gt Ouse

I’ve only just come indoors!

Not only am I a water gypsy, but I am a land gypsy too now… the camp fire has been burning since we arrived here last Thursday, and it has been absolutely wonderful..

There is nobody about in the pic… but some things to notice….

Our roof has been painted!

The camp fire is alight

Mugs of tea are steaming on the table

There is no rain

There is a log for visitors to sit on

Isn’t this just the most wonderful mooring!

It was very hard to tear myself away from the warm fire outside this evening.. ‘Tis amazing that my back felt cold in the breeze while the front of me was warmer than the July days just gone, when life was almost unbearable with the heatwave..

Anyway, NP’s roof has been painted.. Vic did that yesterday chancing the rain, and sure enough he got lucky, the rain came last night.. it was really heavy too, even wakening me up. 

The water is so very clear here, it’s like living in an aquarium.. I can see into the water for well below the bottom of No Problem and watching the fish is fascinating, catching them is another thing though.. .. Ha, but Vic wanted to check out any damage that had been caused to our boat when we got stuck on the cill the other day.. so he donned his swimming shorts and took a close look.. Molly, Chas and Ann’s dog on Moore2Life, thought he should have stayed in there longer and ‘guarded’ the bank!!….

There were no ill effects of that day, and everything was fine as far as the rudder and skeg was concerned..

Off to St Neots again tomorrow, not by boat, but by bus.. there is one goes from Gt Paxton, about a half hour walk from here.. Some post is arriving for me there, plus we need some more bbq fuel.. nearly run out I have, and for sure I am determined there will be many more bbqs before the summer is out!