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Have fantastic time! We are on our last day after a brilliant week’s weather, although very blustery today

Lovely photos David. Tried to press like but it’s not working.

Me too

We got fuel, water and pump out from Simpsons on Saturday. Really good service and friendly staff. We will definitely be using them again.

lovely photos of that gorgeous boat:) Can we only hope that blue on Beauchamp Arms is an undercoat and not the final colour choice ?

Definitely not bored me. More stories please!

I watched this this morning. What type of boat have you got? welcome to the forum btw :)

Our previous hounds weren't keen when the engine was running. Selsie is going next weekend to put in better soundproofing in the engine bay. We’ve been thinking about it for a while for ourselves anyway. He’s only 4. We introduced our previous dogs when they were 10 and too set in their ways. Im sure he will love the walks though.

We have a week off in September and we intend introducing our new four footed crew member to the boat. Im a bit nervous in case he hates it...

Having been bitten to pieces this week, Ive ordered the Avon So Soft which should arrive today, so just waiting for the ding dong, Avon Calling

Totally disgraceful behaviour and makes me really angry as Im sure you are Griff. I’ll ask my brother if he knows of any reputable people. He has working cocker spaniels which I know isnt the breed you are after but he may know someone who does.

The delight of boating for us is to have a nice view especially in the evening. We rarely stern moor as i feel hemmed in and want peace and quiet. We moor up early and leave early in the morning so it would be a nuisance for the people mooring up beside us when we need them to move. Ok, Im just anti social!

So no Breydon crossing then!

“It fits 6 people” cosy!

Congratulations to you both!

You would be best to call

So envious, all day Ive been at work thinking we should be mooring up at Stracey tonight, grrrrrrr Have a great time everyone and hopefully we will be there next year.

Having moored in two other marinas before, I cant imagine ever moving from Broadsedge. Its so pretty and relaxing we don't always feel the need to go out for a cruise because its just a lovely place to be.

Ferry Marine, Horning is easy access for fuel, pump out and water

Ummmmm......ok then :) Actually, just for my own personal interest its rather nice looking back to previous tales and what we did, especially the wooden boat show last year which unfortunately due to work we cant attend this year. Gutted about that :( We would have been loading up the car today if we could have gone waaaaahhhhhhh! We may have an additional crew member on our next proper break so that crew member may be contributing to the content.......

Friday 24th July A slightly later start as this was our last day. I walked back round to the staithe to get rid of the rubbish before setting off at 9.00 to go back to the marina. We wanted to get a bit of maintenance done and also get plugged into the electric as Selsie was still worried about the batteries. (We have now decided to get an additional battery) We had always intended to stay overnight in the marina before leaving for home early morning on Saturday. We could have stayed another night but knew the weather was going to turn. To summarise the best holiday on Luna we have had! For peak season, because of the times we were cruising, we almost felt we were on our usual out of season cruising. The weather was perfect all week, warm, never too hot, a few rain showers at night. Everywhere we planned to moor, we found somewhere easily with our routine apart from Potter, but that worked In our favour by going to Womack in the end. Being mentally exhausted by lockdown and work and recovering from post viral fatigue, I’ve never slept so much and unfortunately now Im back at work, Ive gone back to my old ways but I’m feeling a lot better. Anyway, few weeks time we are back again for another week so will no doubt catch up with more sleep then! Thank you as ever Luna for looking after us. (I have decided this will probably be the last Luna’s log as it’s probably going to get too samey).

Thursday 23rd July 2020 After a very restful night, we tried to be as quiet as possible leaving the dyke at 7.30am. Selsie was a bit worried about the batteries as we hadnt been doing a lot of cruising so rather than going to Womack Staithe as planned when we saw boats coming out, we changed plan and decided to go back to Acle and fill up with water at Bridgecraft before going back up the Ant with an idea to moor up at Paddy’s Lane. We had a lovely quiet cruise down to Acle, fillled up with water at Bridgecraft, popped £2 in the box and made our way back. As we approached the Ant mouth, I couldn’t see any boats coming out but something made me even more cautious as i began the turn and lo and behold a boat was just about to turn left on my side of the river. I used my newly practiced skills of stopping while they hastily moved to the correct side. Adrenaline running, and because I wont helm under Ludham Bridge, I handed control over to Selsie but i was pleased I’d not panicked and dealt calmly with the situation. After we got passed the bridge I took over again and we had the usual discussion, “if Irstead is free.....” It wasnt so we went to Paddys Lane as originally planned. After finding a lovely spot, we settled down and after a while I looked at what was going on on the forum to find that Grendel had just posted he too was at Paddys Lane. I took a walk around the corner and there he was. After another catch up on all things boating, Selsie and I decided to have an explore and went for a walk around the staithe and up into the village. It was a lovely walk and I was really missing not having a hound to walk anymore. So after not being as lazy as we had been, normal service resumed and we boat watched and I had another afternoon nap and sat on the deck in the sun for the rest of the day.

Not working for me either

Wednesday 22nd July 2020 After a very quiet night, back to 9 hours sleep, we left St Benets at 8.30. We were aiming for Potter but to be honest didnt hold out a lot of hope. We had a back up plan. As predicted there was no room, well there would have been if there werent so many gaps, just not quite big enough. Plan B, Womack. We pootled slowly back and turned into Womack Dyke and went down to the staithe. There were a few spaces and we could have done with topping up the water tank but I really didnt want to be stern moored for the rest of the day so we went back out and found a nice spot in the dyke at 10.10. Another first for us, so another tick as we hadnt moored there before. Such a lovely spot but got a bit hairy at times with boats going past very close and a dinghy that left its mark on a fender. We decided to try and find the much praised butchers in Ludham. It was a lovely walk. Didnt realise the path runs behind the hedge and walked along the road. We found the path on the way back . We popped into the shop for a few things then went to the butchers where we got a pork pie for Selsie, a sausage roll for me for our lunch and bacon and chipolatas for later. What amazing value. We will definitely go back. Its a wonderous thing finding bacon that doesnt foam! Small world, a couple moored in front of us were related to the previous owners of Luna. We sat on the deck chatting to our neighbours when a certain Mr Grendel came round the corner. He moored up a few boats behind us and we had a great catch up. The evening meal consisted of all the chipolatas and veg, so good. We watched a bit of tv then the usual early night.