Perfect Harmony

Perfect Harmony
Moored at Huntingdon

Friday 19 June 2015

19th June '15

Got Google back!
Lovely start to the day as there was a volunteer lock-keeper at the lock coming out of Newbury, plus one to operate the tricky bridge there as well. Then we were pleased to see a boat waiting at the next lock! Wrong. It was a single handed boater who was pleased to get help, but didn't contribute much, so John ended up doing twice his normal work. Luckily he was only with us for 3 locks.
The rest were done on our own as usual.
The sun was glorious again today and we arrived at Kintsbury wanting to get water, empty Elson and off load the rubbish. As we came up the lock there was a boat at the water point, 3/4hr later he was still there. It then took us 1/2hr to fill while other jobs were done.
We checked the map and decided to stay here as Hungerford has a few lovely moorings that are like gold dust and plenty of others that are not so good. The ones here are great.
John gave the roof a proper scrub and washed the near side of the boat, it had got disgusting when moored under trees, plus dust from cyclists on the tow path.
I had a half hearted attempt to clean up a bit inside, but spent most of the time walking Paddy or trying to get enough internet to see Facebook.
We've met our New Zealand friends again but they have a different schedule to us, so although we're  likely to see them along the way, it's unlikely we'll travel with them.
We keep hearing that rain is threatened but we're enjoying the sun so much, I'm not sure how we'll cope with wet, hoping that any rain is overnight and sun comes out during the day! Not a lot to expect is it?

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