And again we have changed our plans. We were all for going back to Branston today, and fully prepared to do just that, but we found out, after a phone call to Christine to see how her first night home had been with little 'un, that Colin ( Christine's big bruv) was coming on Friday after work to see his new nephew. As we haven't seen our son since dry docking at Easter, it seemed like a good opportunity to postpone today's visit and go tomorrow instead. So we are now moored on, what we call, the Morrison moorings near the Bass pipe bridge and road bridge 33e. Not only is this a good place to stop for Morrisons, but PC World happens to be right next door. Ian was after purchasing a new hard drive because he very nearly lost everything he had placed on the old one, photos included, and that would have been disastrous! Somehow he found a program on the PC to restore lost data so not all was beyond hope but he was not prepared to risk another failure, hence the new hard drive.
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| Nice red one |
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| Very slimline and compact compared to the original. |
On our return we found that Dennis and Margaret, Nb Icing, had found us ( there's no hiding from the determined) and tied up in front of the C&RT work buttie.
On the towpath standing guard over their chicks were the Canada Geese. Now personally I'm not a big fan of them. They are noisy, eat the crops from the farmers fields, congregate in fast numbers and worse of all mess all over the towpath. We complain of doggie do's but to me this is 10 times worse. It gets walked over the decks and into the boat without realising, ropes are dragged through it and takes ages to clean off of everything. Yes they chicks are cute and I've taken loads of photos of them but I do sometimes wish they would clear off back to Canada!
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| Goose poo just right for us to tread in. |
These last few photos were taken before we left Shobnall Fields. It made me laugh seeing the duck and swan eyeing each other up! The duck because of the duckling and the Swan because of the cygnets.
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