Sunday 1st September
Travelled short distance to a pleasant mooring in Cropredy, where we went for a pint in the Red Lion and came upon 2 singers/guitarists of our age and musical persuasion casually performing at the bar! Several others of our age sat and joined in with Take It Easy, Lying Eyes, various CCR and Doobies faves and a good time was had by all! If my sons read this they wIll no doubt be cringing at the image. This level of music suits my deaf ears fine these days - sadly, I think my years of enjoying loud rock music which caused the deafness in the first place are well over.
On to Banbury, where we have taken up pretty much the same mooring as we had last time we were here, near the town centre. Some locks on this stretch were too difficult for me even though they are small gates and Pete had to take over. Sometimes the winching mechanisms seem to go out of whack so that the ratchets twist, making them very hard to wind. The water is very low as well, the price you pay for all this good weather I suppose and I know which I would rather have. Small enthusiastic children 'helped' here and there, one particularly polite brother and sister were having a lovely day paddling their inflatable canoe with Dad.
The sun shines on.....hooray.
Travelled short distance to a pleasant mooring in Cropredy, where we went for a pint in the Red Lion and came upon 2 singers/guitarists of our age and musical persuasion casually performing at the bar! Several others of our age sat and joined in with Take It Easy, Lying Eyes, various CCR and Doobies faves and a good time was had by all! If my sons read this they wIll no doubt be cringing at the image. This level of music suits my deaf ears fine these days - sadly, I think my years of enjoying loud rock music which caused the deafness in the first place are well over.
On to Banbury, where we have taken up pretty much the same mooring as we had last time we were here, near the town centre. Some locks on this stretch were too difficult for me even though they are small gates and Pete had to take over. Sometimes the winching mechanisms seem to go out of whack so that the ratchets twist, making them very hard to wind. The water is very low as well, the price you pay for all this good weather I suppose and I know which I would rather have. Small enthusiastic children 'helped' here and there, one particularly polite brother and sister were having a lovely day paddling their inflatable canoe with Dad.
The sun shines on.....hooray.
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