YnysMon

It can be done! A fortnight ago I got completely fed up of my long hair and persuaded Graham to get out the clippers. Mind you, he had cut my hair during the first lockdown, so I know he’d make a decent job of it.

I’ve had a wonderful evening. Until about 9 years ago, which was around about time that my mother came to live with us, I played trombone in the Woburn Sands B band (that’s the training band…son Harry plays with the A band…the ‘proper’ band). This evening I rejoined the band! Yesterday, I rejoined the Open University Choir, again having dropped out several years ago. They rehearse lunchtimes, and it had got to the stage where I had so many lunchtime work meetings, it just wasn’t doable. No wonder the choir is made up almost exclusively of retired people nowadays! I feel I’m gradually getting back to normal life.

Glad to hear the dog has settled. Hopefully you can now relax and enjoy it all. I love those early morning photos, by the way.

Yes, whilst I didn’t get much sleep, I didn’t get very annoyed about their heating being on overnight as they weren’t doing anything ‘wrong’. The experience made me rather wary of side on mooring in the colder seasons when on shore power though. If they hadn’t been on shore power there’s no way they could have left the heating on all night. I thought it rather silly and wasteful to leave it on whilst they were at the pub though.

I’m up early this morning. Mainly because I got up to go to the loo with the first feint light of dawn and I spotted our bedroom door was open, and no sign of Pozzick (he sleeps in our room). That woke me up properly! Luckily, my son Alec heard him open our door a few hours earlier and came down to investigate. It turned out that Seren, who sleeps in the lounge in her crate, wanted to go out as she had the runs. Poor Alec can’t have had much sleep as she needed to go out more than once. So, good boy Pozzie for being tuned in with Seren. He is very attached to Seren. It’s so funny when we go for walks. If he gets left behind (normally because he stops for a squirt) he can’t wait to catch up with her. It’s the only time he really pulls hard on the lead. If he gets ahead, he’ll wait for her to catch up. Anyway, I’ve sent Alec back to bed to catch up on his sleep as he has an online interview this afternoon.

That’s a lovely story Griff.

Agree with that completely. One of the worst night’s sleep I had on the Broads was when moored next to a boat at Rockland St Mary. They kept their heating all evening whilst they were in the pub (!) and then all night too.

Well, I don't blame you at getting annoyed at your neighbour who moans to you but won't complain directly to the offenders. On the other hand, I can understand if he doesn't want to get on the bad side of neighbours, particularly if he feels vulnerable in some way. We've all seen how neighbourly disputes can get out of hand. However, getting back to the running of engines etc. I'm of the opinion that if we start to accept that anti-social behaviour/selfish behaviour is not a problem, then we have really lost it as a society.

Whoops, some punctuation missing there. At least it caused a laugh.

I’m sure it’s also hotter further south! A castle sounds like a good idea on a hot day. Nice and cool inside. I recall visiting the castle where William the Conqueror was born on a scorching day. It was bliss…inside anyway.

Good luck!

Sounds like a very enjoyable day what with the tour of the mill and the geocaching.

I’m back to work tomorrow after a week off too. Annoying isn’t it. At least I only have three weeks left until FREEDOM! (Sorry, that was me shouting from the rooftops.)

We did our first couple of hires with Ferry Marina and were very happy with them. For our third trip, we were planning a fortnight. NBD were offering a good discount for the second week, so I asked Ferry whether they would match the discount (this was about five years ago before the ownership of both Ferry and NBD changed). Nope. So they lost our custom for the next couple of hires.

Loddon looks quiet…I mean, not busy.

Excellent…looking forward to reading more of your adventures.

Congrats Clive. In our hiring days, before we joined a syndicate, we always booked direct, from our very first hire in 2016.

Rest in peace Mike. I wish we had met in person. Please pass my condolences on to Pat.

Indeed! When I was in my 20s (long time ago) one of my work colleagues got a call to go to the hospital…her husband had been using a chainsaw that had struck a knot in the wood, had bounced off and cut his neck. Thankfully, he survived. Chainsaws….please take extra care.

You are obviously a ‘glass half full’ person, always looking on the bright side. Good for you. Now let’s all join in with a chorus of Monty Python’s ’always look on the bright side of life’ de dum, de dum de dum de dum. Sorry, I think I’ve slightly lost it this evening.

Thanks Sam, glad you had a good time. Those dark clouds near St Benet’s looked menacing. The weather over the last couple of months has been really weird. Here in MK it’s been warm, but not particularly sunny. Hope September is better. How awful that your sense of taste still hasn’t recovered from that pesky Covid.

Have a great time, and welcome to the forum. Hope you let us know how you get on.

Lots of posts missing when we were last there in July. Somehow I doubt they would have replaced them in the meantime.

It’s obviously Mouldy’s bad influence. and also

Yes, the choice of £6 stickers to go over the £5 signs weren’t very well thought out. Mostly blended in with the background colour of the signage and difficult to read.