Retirement with No Problem

Moored Wansford Station, River Nene

There was nothing more to do today than to watch the local swans moving up and down the river, occassionally chasing off Canada and Greylag geese who dared venture into their territory.  The swans almost bark as they puff up their wings and paddle menacingly through the water after the intruders.. there is a reason why.. awwww..

Each evening all the little ones climb aboard mum for a trip along the river.. almost to the minunte each evening too.  They do look funny all poking out from under her wings trying to get the best view!

Across the river are fields of corn, and in the breeze it looks like waves on the sea, almost magical.  Around the fields the farmers have left strips of land which contain the most wonderful wild flowers, here some magnificant yellow ones

I do love this time of year, everything is so fresh and green.

We sat out for all of today doing next to nothing, and this evening yet another bbq.  That is now 3 times more bbqs than we had the whole of last summer!  The girls Lucy and Meg got their walk this evening and we took off through those fields of corn to the small village of Stibbington..

This Stibbington Hall a grand building indeed which apparently dates back to 1625.  In fact the whole village is made up of beautiful houses, there is a very splendid Manor as well!

Farmer Giles says in a comment on the blog that the diesel at Ely is at 90p a litre.. wow, it sure is getting high, gawd knows what it will be in November when we lose the red stuff and move over to normal.  We are being very very careful now on when we run our engine to charge the batteries.  At the moment we are finding that running for 30 minutes in the morning and 30 minutes as late as possible in the evening is keeping the batteries topped up a treat.  We certainly have cut consuption down by at least one third by being thrifty.

Cruising along too, we are cutting the engine while waiting for locks to fill or empty, that too is saving fuel.  Oh and many thanks to you Farmer Giles for the useful information from the Great Ouse.

Dunno what we are doing tomorrow, might move, might stay here…. ho hum…