Yesterday we walked into Uxbridge and this is just about the only old building we saw - it's St. Margaret's Church and said on the notice that it's the oldest building in the town - by several hundred years as far as we could see!
Here's one for daughter-in-law #1 and several friends! Seen in Uxbridge just moored along from us. There was also a Titanic, but at about 20' long it wasn't quite as big as one of the lifeboats. I love someone with a sense of humour!
Yesterday we travelled a mile with one lock, today we've done about 6.5 miles and 6 locks, then we're not moving until Monday when we go on a few more miles to get to Watford, where we'll be for the best part of a week. We're still having electric problems after thinking we'd sorted them on the marina. When we get to the show we're going to find the Victron man and quiz him until we know what's happening with the inverter and then see the solar panel man and get some installed so that we're not in this position again.
We had a barbie the other night (slightly out of sequence here) and here's John (sorry about the nakedness - not necessarily what you need when you want to eat) busy cooking the meat. For those who can't work it out - we have a Cobb which is an Australian BBQ that is insulated so you can pick it up or indeed cook on a plastic table as pictured here. They're very good, but thanks to the last 2 summers it's been woefully underused.
We went through Denham Deep Lock - DEEP??? it's 11'1" for goodness sake! now 19'5" THAT'S deep. My photo of it doesn't want to upload but it's not that impressive. Go and find the one at Bath and imagine something slightly less than 2/3 as deep and there you have it!
We were at one lock and a boat arrived to come down just as we'd gone in to go up. Before the second bottom gate was shut and before I'd got a rope attached,some prat opened the top paddle, not even the ground paddle which would have been bad enough but the gate paddle. John yelled at him to shut it and after getting my rope sorted went over and had a quiet word about which paddle to do when. Apparently they were Dutch and had NO idea what to do, heaven knows how they got on. I was saying some very unladylike things about him while in the lock and still wish I could have got my hands on him - lock rage in action I think!
Most of my pictures won't upload for some reason, but this is the pub where the AGM is being held tomorrow afternoon. It looks nice, shame I've got food enough to feed the 40,000 and all needs to be used in the next few days - please let the weather last as we need BBQ's!
It's a bit dark but here's the line of RBOA boats - apart from the front one which has a permanent mooring there - Roger, an old working boat. There's also one you can't really distinguish just in front of us that is ignoring the signs saying RBOA only as well as calls from CRT and the appeals of the people here and is moored right in the middle of us all. Hopefully they will go soon as there are more boats due.
I have no idea when I'll next get on to update this, but will try to do something over the weekend or early next week.
roger has not worked for years love to you both xd
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