Back on the boat for return journey to our mooring, leaving my beloved sister with my parents until I can get back.
We now have 2 cars with us, so that is a bonus and a nuisance all in one! This afternoon (Saturday) we are back on the Pangbourne mooring with my car here and Pete's back in the Thames and Kennet marina.
Beautiful cruise today as the sun is shining again and the trees are changing slowly into their golds and reds. Got to Mapledurham lock where we pumped out. Confusing little interlude with neither of us able to hear each other over the sound of a helicopter providing trips from the Mapledurham estate. It seemed to be on the ground more than in the air! Friends and family will know that I am partially deaf anyway, so trying to hear Pete's instructions of 'press the pause button' and 'move to the end of the pontoon' were lost. Luckily we didn't have a nasty accident with a flying sewage pipe; could have been interesting for the gentle folk playing boule nearby!
Conversations on boats are never easy especially when one is on the bow and one is on the stern and the wind is whistling. Our friends sensibly have walkie talkies, we just use hand signals which can be two fingered in times of stress!!
We now have 2 cars with us, so that is a bonus and a nuisance all in one! This afternoon (Saturday) we are back on the Pangbourne mooring with my car here and Pete's back in the Thames and Kennet marina.
Beautiful cruise today as the sun is shining again and the trees are changing slowly into their golds and reds. Got to Mapledurham lock where we pumped out. Confusing little interlude with neither of us able to hear each other over the sound of a helicopter providing trips from the Mapledurham estate. It seemed to be on the ground more than in the air! Friends and family will know that I am partially deaf anyway, so trying to hear Pete's instructions of 'press the pause button' and 'move to the end of the pontoon' were lost. Luckily we didn't have a nasty accident with a flying sewage pipe; could have been interesting for the gentle folk playing boule nearby!
Conversations on boats are never easy especially when one is on the bow and one is on the stern and the wind is whistling. Our friends sensibly have walkie talkies, we just use hand signals which can be two fingered in times of stress!!
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