Carried Away By A Moonlight Shadow...

[YnysMon]

5 minutes ago, Mouldy said:

I’ve found a similar issue with the Aweigh App, where when it’s first opened, the data doesn’t always display correctly.  Closing the app properly (and I’ve no idea how to do that with a Google phone) and reopening it seems to make it behave for me.

It may work for you too!

Yes, I worked that one out during our second week! 

[YnysMon]

Friday 22nd March

As I had promised the HPC yard manager that Moonlight Shadow would be available today to take the push pit rail off, we set off early from Acle, so that we could get back to the yard around 8am. I had also emailed him asking if one of the engineers could look at our main heads, as it was leaking badly when flushed. I don’t know whether it was coincidence, but we first noticed the leaking after our Breydon crossing on Saturday, so I don’t know whether the boat being violently tossed about by the wake of another boat had anything to do with it. Initially we assumed that the leak was from the water intake, but soon realised that it was leaking from the point at which the porcelain bowl of the loo was connecting to the pipe leading to the tank. Essentially it was leaking sewage. Yuk! Luckily for us, the yard fixed the problem today whilst we were off the boat.

Shortly after we arrived at HPC this heron paid us a visit, walking along our finger pontoon.

We went to Norwich by car today, parking in the same car park that we had used on our last trip, the Rose Lane car park not far from the Yacht Station. We didn’t bother visiting the Cathedral this time, but just had a wander through the city centre, browsing a few shops. First we went down a side street on the opposite side of The Prince of Wales Road from the Car Park to find this little garden. I had read that it was a good place to take your dog, as it's pretty enclosed, and is in easy reach of the Yacht Station. It's called the James Stuart Garden. 

One of the shops we browsed in was Jarrold's.

I hadn’t visited their basement food hall before. It was well worth a visit as they stock a lot of local Norfolk-made produce, including the H&J chocolates that are made in Beccles. Harry and I selected a couple of bars of chocolate to sample on the boat later. We got a Banoffee Pie bar and a Salted Pecan and Raisin one.

After Jarrold's, we had a wander around the market. We bought Graham a vegan mushroom and ale pie from the Pie Stall (Harry and I still had the large steak in the Beccles butches, which I planned to cook this evening). Graham spotted the pet shop stall that’s at the front of the market and decided to buy Pozzie a new bed. It was rather large though, so we put off buying it until after we’d had lunch. It was almost time for lunch, so we made our way to Shikki in Tombland (near the Cathedral).

The visit to Shikki was really our motivation for going to Norwich today. When we visited Norwich in January the restaurant had been closed for their annual new year holiday, so Graham had missed out on sampling its delights. We all had a bento box meal. You choose a main and a sushi/sashimi course and it comes with a small starter, rice, side salad and miso soup. The starter seems to be different each time we visit, and there isn’t a choice. Luckily, the starter today was vegetarian, a small portion of Japanese omelette, so okay for Graham. We both chose a tofu and braised vegetables main whilst Harry had the breaded pork. I had sushi, Graham and vegetarian sushi and Harry had sashimi, which this time included a couple of slices of octopus.

The Starter 

Our meals.

Graham's

Mine

Harry's

Having enjoyed our meal, we made our way back to the market to buy the dog bed, then returned to the car. I googled ‘dog friendly parks’ tot try to find somewhere on the way back to Horning to take the dogs for a run and entered Catton Park into our sat nav. This didn’t work out though, as we couldn’t find anywhere to park when we got to the location. Instead, we just stopped off in Wroxham. Graham and Harry took the dogs for a run along the BA Viaduct moorings whilst I popped to Roy’s for a few bits and bobs.

We had a lazy time for the rest of the afternoon and evening.

Pozzie waiting for his dinner.

The dog bed that we had bought proved to be ginormous. Ironically, it was Seren who settled on it, rather than Pozzy. She occupied a tiny corner.

This evening Harry and I had the Beccles steak, divided between us. Our eyes had definitely been bigger than our bellies though, so we should have chosen one of the smaller steaks. Graham enjoyed his Pie Stall pie.

[YnysMon]

Saturday 23rd March

We had another trip by car today, visiting Southwold. The day was mostly sunny, but we did have the occasional shower, which we managed to dodge.

It took us a lot longer to get there than anticipated. Shirley, our sat nav, took us there via Great Yarmouth and Oulton Broad, rather than the road that goes past Beccles. Oulton Broad proved to be a horrible bottleneck. It must have taken us at least ¾ of an hour to get through. I suppose most of the traffic trying to get along the coast must pass though there. We resolved not to return that way.

So it was getting on for mid-day by the time we got to Southwold. We parked near the pier, then took the dogs for a walk along a path that leads from the car park.

Tucking the dogs back in the car, the first priority was to find somewhere for lunch. We made our way to the high street, passing the church and the Adnam’s brewery and Adnam's shop on the way (and resolving to return to both later).

We ended up having lunch in the Tiptree Tea Rooms (owned by the people who make the Tiptree jams) where we enjoyed a sandwich/toastie lunch.

After that, we browsed the shops down the high street. There were several with sales still on, so I managed to get a new cardie in the White Stuff shop (60% off) and a new thick sweatshirt type top in Weird Fish (30% off).

We stopped off at the Harris & James (H&J) Gelato Shop in on the corner of East Street/Pinkney's Lane. Graham was really taken with his bakewell tart flavoured gelato, but slightly regretted getting a ‘two-scoop’ cone, as it was very large. Harry had salted caramel, and I had a mango and passion fruit sorbet in a ‘one-scoop’ cone. One scoop was plenty large enough!

We then made our way back to the Church, passing the brewery on the way. There was a tantalising whiff of beer in the making as we passed the Adnams factory.

The church is well worth a visit, having a beautiful ‘angel’ roof and medieval rood screens. The screens across the side aisles were obviously by a different workshop of craftsmen than the main rood screen dividing the navel from the choir section of the church.

 

Harry and I then went to the Adnams shop whilst Graham went back to the car to let the dogs out. We didn’t buy much: Harry just got himself a couple of beers and I bought some cider for Alec.

On our way back to the car Harry and I wandered onto the pier. It's free to get onto and has a number of attractions and cafes.

Before setting out for home we drove to down Ferry Road toward the Lifeboat Station, near the mouth where the River Blyth reaches the sea. The dogs had a good run along the area behind the dunes.

We then drove along Blackshore, which is a rough track that goes past the ferry to Walberswick, moorings along the River Blyth, various fresh fish stalls (all closed) and the harbour master’s office, before making our way back into Southwold and on our way ‘home’ (It’s funny how I’ve started to refer to MS as ‘home’ when she’s on her mooring in Horning.)

The journey back to Horning was a lot better, skirting Beccles along a newish by-pass route.

We stopped off in Wroxham again so that I could visit Roy’s to get something for my lunch tomorrow.

[YnysMon]

Sunday 24th March

Another non-cruising day today.

Harry needed to get back to MK, so that he could attend band practise this evening and later in the week, so Graham drove him home.

Meanwhile I lazed around for a while, tidied up the boat a bit and then set out for a walk to Ludham Bridge, making my way up School Road, with a view of St Benedict's Church over the fields. 

I went as far as the X junction with Grove Road/Church Road, where there’s a footpath that runs diagonally across a field, bring you out at the end of a row of houses on the Horning to Ludham road (Norwich Road).

Crossing the road I continued along another footpath down the lane opposite and then through a gate. This was padlocked, but there was a gap at the side of the gate for walkers.

This footpath eventually heads toward Hall Road (just south of Alderfen Broad and a bit further east from the Radar Museum), but there’s a branch that takes you along a dyke toward Neave’s Mill, which I followed.

From Neave’s Mill you can walk along a dyke running south , following the line of the river, until you reach the Norwich Road a 100 yds of so from Ludham Bridge.

There was a guy with a camera on a tripod on the bridge, who I guessed is probably one of the people with a YouTube channel that regularly films at Ludham Bridge, no doubt hoping for mishaps as there was a fairly brisk wind. I also noticed a lady sitting in a car facing the river who had a mobile phone on a stand on her dash, and wondered if she was the ‘Same name’ lady. I don't think either of them were likely to have got much footage today, as there weren't many boats passing Ludham Bridge. It must be pretty boring doing all that filming.

I visited Dollies Bakery and got myself a takeaway coffee and a cinnamon bun which I took to the picnic bench on the opposite bank from Ludham Boatyard. They do have seating inside, but I always feel self-conscious if I’m the only customer in a café.

My route back to the boat took me down lane that leads to Horning Hall and some holiday cottages.

There's a track from the holiday cottages that leads in the direction of St Benedict’s Church, with a final stretch down Church Lane and then back down School Road. The track follows a ridge overlooking the Bure valley, with a view across to St Helen's, Ranworth.

Approaching St Benedict's - almost home!

After all the floods in January and February, the HPC yard had been almost dry earlier in the week. Not so much today at high tide!

My late lunch, when I got back to the boat, was a dressed crab that I’d got in Roy’s yesterday, with new potatoes and a side salad. I was wishing I’d chosen the medium crab rather than the large though!

I hardly did anything the rest of the day, apart from running the Shark vacuum cleaner around. I watched the rest of the Great British Menu final episode on iPlayer (having got too tired yesterday evening to watch both the penultimate finals episode and the final final). Graham got back before dark, so I had his company this evening.

We had a what looked like a full moon this evening.

 

[YnysMon]

Monday 25th March

Yay – we got cruising again!

We had to wait a bit before setting out, as the basin of HPC was a bit like Piccadilly Circus this morning. There was a lot of boat manoeuvring going on, presumably with hires due to go out. They were even moving two boats at a time. That takes some skill!

We made our way up the Ant this morning. It was a very pleasant morning, which was lucky as there was barely 7½‘ showing on the board downriver of Ludham Bridge. We played safe and took both canopy and screen down. It’s lucky there wasn’t any other traffic on the river as I had to bring the boat to a halt mid-river to help Graham with the screen.

We kept screen and canopy down for the rest of the journey, ending up at Neatishead as Irstead Staithe was already occupied.

There were only a couple of other boats at Neatishead when we arrived, but they left soon after. A few other boats arrived before lunch and then departed. Others arrived after lunch, but even so we ended up with only four boats (including us) overnight. Very peaceful.

I made us a brunch and after having that we took the dogs out for a walk. We followed the path that runs from opposite the ‘Fudge Lady’s’ house toward Threehammer Common. There’s a branch off that path that runs toward Long Road (the lane that starts almost opposite Gay’s Staithe), and then along another footpath that runs diagonally across the opposite field. Then there was a short stretch down Water Lane and then a right turn down Alderfen Lane before following another footpath that took us back to the end of Long Road and then back along the first footpath we had taken. One good thing, the path that leads over to Threehammer Common is a hill, and I found that I had good phone signal up there, whereas I had zilch on Neatishead Staithe.

As we were returning to the boat, we met Simon and his little dog Susie. Pozzie, being Pozzie (he loves little dogs) wanted to play, but Susie wasn’t having any of it. Little dogs have attitude, I guess they have to, as dogs as big as Pozzie must be rather challenging!

We had another lazy evening, not even watching telly, as we didn’t have signal for that either.

We had a very light supper again, after having another belly busting brunch earlier.

[YnysMon]

Tuesday 26th March

Early morning dog cuddles.

Just a trip back down the Ant this morning.

We had thought initially to stop at How Hill for a walk, but we decided it would be better to get under Ludham Bridge as early as possible as the tide was rising, and we wanted to avoid the faff of taking the canopy down. That worked out fine. Although there was less than 8’ on the board, we could clearly see the sills and had more than a few inches to space.

We had a very pleasant cruise up to Potter Heigham.

Pozzie could definitely smell something interesting on the wind as we chugged up the Thurne.

We got to Potter H shortly before 11am. There was plenty of room on the moorings, but several other boats arrived within the next half hour or so and the moorings quickly filled up.

We took the dogs for a walk southward behind the chalets, passing The Old Mill (also known as Bond Mill) and the Repps staithe. At the end of the stretch of chalets we turned around and retracted our steps.

This Pooh Bear looked a bit worse for wear! He can be spotted just north of the Repps Staithe. 

As we were walking toward the boat, I recognised the guy on the Barnes Brinkcraft boat moored in front of us. It was Dan from YouTube channel ‘One Dan and his boat’. Once we’d got the dogs on board, I went to have a chat with Dan before making my way to Latham’s. I didn’t want much, just a new oven glove as the one on board MS was looking rather grubby. I thought it would be handy to have a spare so that I could take the other one home to wash it.

After I’d had my trip to Latham’s, it was Graham’s turn, whilst I stayed with the dogs. If we had our own boat, we would probably leave the dogs on board by themselves, but as we only have a share in the boat, we don’t do that.

Having done our Latham’s shop we had a sandwich lunch before debating whether to stay in Potter overnight or return to HPC, the latter won out, so we set out again and had a very pleasant cruise back to Horning where we enjoyed a quiet evening. Dinner this evening was oven roasted veg (crushed new potatoes, parsnips and carrots) with apple and sausages.

[YnysMon]

Wednesday 27th March

As the weather forecast was showing increasingly strong winds over the next couple of days, we decided not to cruise and to go places by car.

Last week, when we had been looking for a replacement grub screw for the 3-pin plug on the end of our canopy wire, it had been suggested that we try ASAP supplies, a marine supplies store on the Ellough Industrial Estate outside Beccles. We fancied visiting Bungay today, which is a small town not that far from Beccles, so that would give us an opportunity to visit the ASAP store.

We made sure not to repeat the mistake of going south via Oulton Broad today, taking the road leading to Lowestoft (A146) off the A47.

Anyway, the trip to ASAP supplies was fruitful. Graham managed to get a replacement 3-pin plug, which was the right size for our canopy electrical connection. Hopefully, that will make the electrical connection more robust.

Bungay turned out to be a little town with character and a sense of history, though it’s sad that several of the old inns were closed down and boarded up. It has a castle, an old market building ‘the Buttercross’, a couple of Anglican churches, and a Catholic one with an ornate exterior. It also has a range of independent shops, including fishmonger, good quality butcher, greengrocers etc. Several of the shops closed at 3pm though, and a couple weren’t open at all on a Wednesday.

We wandered from the car park (£1 for 2 hours) down St Mary’s Street where we spotted the Catholic Church...

and St Mary's Church...

plus a few other old buildings...

The Buttercross...

We visited ‘Gelato and Sorbetto’ which is a café as well as a gelato shop where we had coffee and cake. My Biscoff cake tasted lovely but was quite hard; I wasn’t sure if it was supposed to be like that or wasn’t particularly fresh.

After that we wandered around to have a look at Bigod Castle...

then the stores on Earsham Street before turning down Bridge Street, which took us down to the river. Bungay is also situated on the River Waveney, upriver from Beccles and Geldeston. Some of the houses down by the river were obviously fairly old. Some appeared to have redesigned the position of doors/windows at some point, others had a definite lean to them.

We only went as far as the bridge, to view the river.

After that we returned up the hill to visit St Mary’s Church. This one has been deconsecrated and is looked after by a church conservation organisation. It’s a peculiar shape, being all ‘nave’ and no ‘choir’. From the outside of the church the reason for this was obvious. The church had originally been much larger, having been attached to a nunnery, and the choir section which would normally have led up to the altar had been abandoned.

We then tried to visit the church that was in use: Holy Trinity Church. This had a round tower, typical of many churches in East Anglia, but what it is like inside I have no idea: it was locked.

We took a more sensible route home, taking the road to Norwich. Before making our way back to Horning we had a detour to Whitlingham Country Park, as the dogs needed to stretch their legs.

This evening I made us pasta, serving it with a sauce made from cashews and avocado blitzed smooth with lime juice, water, olive oil, garlic and nutritious yeast (instead of parmesan).

[YnysMon]

Thursday 28th March

We had thought to go as far as somewhere on the North Norfolk coast, such as Sheringham, today, but felt quite lazy. Instead, we just took the dogs to their favourite walking spot, Caister-on-Sea beach.

Back on board, we had a brunch, then just hunkered down for the rest of the day. The wind picked up as promised, with gusts of over 40mph, so it’s just as well we hadn’t gone anywhere by boat.

At least we had a rainbow.

I was hoping that the weather forecast, promising more moderate winds, was accurate for the following morning, as I had booked a slot in Boulter’s for 9am.

[YnysMon]

Friday 29th March

I had an awful night’s sleep. As you can imagine, the bow slap was something chronic, but even when I did sleep I had slightly unsettling dreams, which probably reflected by being tense about moving the boat to Boulter’s in the morning if the wind didn’t subside. I gave up just before 4 on trying to sleep and played a couple of games on my iPad, until Pozzick whined, wanting to go out, around 5am. So I got up, took the dogs out and then settled in the lounge until Graham got up around 7. We had a quick breakfast then started to pack our stuff.

Luckily the wind had dropped to a more reasonable level, and it wasn’t an issue to get into Boulter’s. As mentioned in my live thread, we were there quite a while (a couple of hours) whilst they guys in the yard tried to remove a blockage from their pump-out machine. Thank goodness they succeeded, as we were thinking that getting a pump-out elsewhere probably could have been an issue on a bank holiday. We knew that HPC had a lot of hires going out today, so would probably be too busy to do a pump-out, the same would probably be true for Ferry Marina, and who knew if Southgates would be open on a bank holiday.

Anyway, the time in Boulter’s wasn’t wasted. We just carried on with our packing and cleaning the interior of the boat, though we had to wait until we were back in HPC to clean the saloon as we needed to get the dogs off the boat to do that.

We managed to get away shortly after 12noon, and had a lunch stop at The Old Mill in Wroxham before making our way home. The Old Mill appears to be becoming our regular place for lunch on our final day. The menu isn’t fancy, but it’s not that expensive and is consistently good.

[YnysMon]

Postscript

We haven’t that long before our next trip on MS. We have another fortnight on board (as a result of agreeing a number of swaps) from 31st May. I really enjoyed not having to negotiate fishermen on this trip, not that I’ve got anything against them, it just makes things easier, especially on moorings that are popular with the fishing community. Luckily, our next trip also falls within the closed fishing season, so that’s another bonus.

If anyone else is around early June, do let us know!

[Lulu]

Lovely and interesting right up as always Helen. One day we will meet in person rather than just waving madly at each other!   We keep saying we will have days out but never do. Maybe when we can have more than one week on board we will. You have definitely given me some ideas of where to go.  

[bucket]

Thanks Helen, lovely write up and photos!

[YnysMon]

30 minutes ago, Lulu said:

Lovely and interesting right up as always Helen. One day we will meet in person rather than just waving madly at each other!   We keep saying we will have days out but never do. Maybe when we can have more than one week on board we will. You have definitely given me some ideas of where to go.  

Having a fortnight does make a difference. When we only have a week I'd rather cruise everyday, unless the weather has other ideas for us. 

[Broads01]

Thanks for the comprehensive write up and photos, Helen, you always put time into it. I smiled thinking of Seren as your "co-pilot".

[YnysMon]

Just tried out the H&J Banoffee Pie chocolate that we bought in Jarrolds (from the Beccles choc factory). All I can say is…YUM! 

[kpnut]

Thanks for the interesting read Helen. Southwold looks a superb place to visit. Tony has agreed a 12 day stay on the boat starting mid April,  so as well as venturing through GY and south for a few days, I might suggest a day out in the car somewhere to break the trip up for him. Southwold would be a good one. 

I’ll be visiting Bungay in June as I have to attend a meeting there. That too looks interesting. 

[YnysMon]

50 minutes ago, kpnut said:

Thanks for the interesting read Helen. Southwold looks a superb place to visit. Tony has agreed a 12 day stay on the boat starting mid April,  so as well as venturing through GY and south for a few days, I might suggest a day out in the car somewhere to break the trip up for him. Southwold would be a good one. 

I’ll be visiting Bungay in June as I have to attend a meeting there. That too looks interesting. 

Cromer, Sheringham and Holt are worth a visit too, and Findlay would love Pretty Corner Woods near Sheringham. I quite enjoy a wander along the North Norfolk Coast, stopping off at random villages, including the smokehouse at Cley. 

[PaulN]

On 30/03/2024 at 18:40, YnysMon said:

We had to wait a bit before setting out, as the basin of HPC was a bit like Piccadilly Circus this morning. There was a lot of boat manoeuvring going on, presumably with hires due to go out. They were even moving two boats at a time. That takes some skill!

Yes that does take skill, I (Bon Bon) with a fouled prop, was tethered alongside Swiftway that was being manorverd to get me into the travel hoist, by non other that Master Boatman Clive Rico himself!

We had just reversed into our mooring, when the prop fouled which turned out to be a large piece of black heavy gauge plastic wrapped tightly around the prop. This must have been just below the surface, as it wasn't visible when I came into the mooring. It was a very windy day and we are the first boat as you come into the marina entrance, so it must have been blown in. What also surprised me was that after 4 years in the water, the bottom of the boat was still clean and shining!

Sorry we held you up. Amazingly, after the prop fouled, Clive had Bon Bon out he water and we were back on our mooring inside 30 mins.

[YnysMon]

I thought it was Clive at the helm. Maybe I should correct that. At the time I had no idea what Clive looked like, not until I looked at the Horning Pleasurecraft website this week. 
Anyway, that was a nifty bit of helming. Bon Bon looked very tidy, she does you credit.

[YnysMon]

Whoopee! We (at least son Harry and I) will be back on Moonlight Shadow a lot earlier than expected.

We already knew that MS would be unoccupied the week beginning Friday 19th April, but had set that week aside for work on the boat. Firstly the push pit rail would need to be re-attached to the boat with associated gel coat repairs and secondly, some work was needed in the aft heads. When I was cleaning the boat at the end of our March trip I noticed that the silicone seal one side of our aft heads shower tray was no longer forming a seal. Malcolm (Mouldy), our syndicate chair, had visited the week after and resealed it, but in doing so had noticed that the panel below the loo was needing to be replaced as it was pretty rotten. The team at HPC have worked their usual magic though, and have already completed both pieces of work. Thanks guys!

Luckily, no one else in the syndicate wanted the week, so I have been able to claim it. It will be just be a few days though, rather than a full week, as Harry's band is playing a concert at The Stables (the concert venue that John and Cleo Dankworth established in Milton Keynes) Sunday evening. So, we'll just do a Monday to Friday trip, leaving the dogs to keep Graham and Alec company. Graham can't make it unfortunately. I'm planning to take a lot less 'stuff' than we usually do. Just the number of blankets and rugs that we take for the dogs take up 2-3 bin bags.

Hope the weather will be kind to us. I have a hankering to do the things that we can't do when the dogs are with us - like mud-weighting.

[kpnut]

1 hour ago, YnysMon said:

Hope the weather will be kind to us. I have a hankering to do the things that we can't do when the dogs are with us - like mud-weighting.

Go for it Helen.
There’s also the boardwalks at Barton and Ranworth that you can’t take dogs on. And if you’re moored up at home base and fancy a trip out in the car one evening, the NWT reserve at Hickling is open 24 hours (not the shop obviously). 

[Broads01]

I think one of the best benefits of syndicate ownership is being able to have extra time aboard just for the cost of fuel and pump out. I'd love that but I don't think Mrs Broads01 would love it quite so much alas.

[YnysMon]

3 hours ago, Broads01 said:

I think one of the best benefits of syndicate ownership is being able to have extra time aboard just for the cost of fuel and pump out. I'd love that but I don't think Mrs Broads01 would love it quite so much alas.

It depends on your circumstances. I get the impression that most of the current members of our syndicate can’t just take an extra week on a whim. If you are working and only have four weeks leave per year (and we have four weeks allocation) that does restrict you. Graham and I have stayed at or near to the bottom of our ‘priority ladder’ for the last year or so as we have hoovered up several spare weeks. If you claim a spare week you go down to the bottom of the ladder. If anyone else had been interested in this week they would have taken priority.

Anyway, even if you can’t take advantage of ‘spare’ weeks, the four weeks we get for our annual fees is very good value, probably cheaper than one week’s hire in the height of summer.

It’s also very unusual to have a spare week in April. Mostly the ‘spare’ weeks fall in the winter months. I love being on the boat in winter. It’s very different to the warmer months but no less enjoyable. Short days. When the sun is out, some magical days when you have the rivers almost to yourselves. A focus on getting moorings with electric. More days on our home mooring, with days out exploring Norfolk and Suffolk. A different holiday experience overall. 

[Mouldy]

21 hours ago, YnysMon said:

 . . . . . . . . . . Hope the weather will be kind to us. I have a hankering to do the things that we can't do when the dogs are with us - like mud-weighting.

We did think about using MS over the weekend, returning home on Monday morning, but it seems an awful lot of grief for a couple of days, when all our stuff is on NL.

Looking at the weather forecast, I’d say the river levels aren’t going to drop anytime soon.  Strong northwesterlies forecast for tomorrow and brisk winds from the same direction for the rest of the week aren’t good.  The BBC forecast shows northwesterly winds to last until next Monday.  Just hope the winds change direction before the next spring tides.

[YnysMon]

5 hours ago, Mouldy said:

We did think about using MS over the weekend, returning home on Monday morning, but it seems an awful lot of grief for a couple of days, when all our stuff is on NL.

Looking at the weather forecast, I’d say the river levels aren’t going to drop anytime soon.  Strong northwesterlies forecast for tomorrow and brisk winds from the same direction for the rest of the week aren’t good.  The BBC forecast shows northwesterly winds to last until next Monday.  Just hope the winds change direction before the next spring tides.

It very rainy and gusty here in Milton Keynes today. I hope it calms down before next week. Apparently the Met Office are promising high pressure over the weekend, so that should improve things. (Cross fingers).