19th & 20th January
What a good weekend that was - did I say I was tired at the end of the last post? You should see me now.
Elanor duly turned up for dinner on Friday night, bearing the usual collection of post and my replacement LavNav, the fiendish device she gave me for my birthday which then broke down and has been replaced without demur by IWOOT.com. It goes under the toilet seat lid, and shines green in the dark when the lid is up, but red if the seat is up as well.
Very useful in the middle of the night.
Saturday (yesterday) was a family event and a half, a postponed bit of Christmas, really. We already had Elanor with us, and then Peter and Jan came bearing some goodies for lunch, and finally Graeme, Cathy and Daniel rocked up for a late lunch. Not their fault, they'd had a very slow journey of it from Lincoln due to the Trent being in flood.
So we had a great family lunch on board, and Peter and Jan were able to meet Daniel for the first time. Daniel as usual was incredibly well behaved, and held court with aplomb.
After Elanor and Peter and Jan had left, we had a very pleasant afternoon and evening catching up with Cathy and Graeme. Daniel experienced his first night in the side berth with its new cot side arrangement – he wasn't too sure of it at first, but settled quite quickly and then slept well.
He also gave us a relaxed start this morning, waking at five or so for a nappy change, and then joining his parents in their bed on the saloon floor for about another three hours kip.
What a star.
After they'd gone, we boated on to Lymm, getting here in nice time for lunch. The forecast is a bit dodgy for tomorrow, but we can sit it out here with shops and stuff to hand.
The afternoon has passed in a bit of a daze. Sheila was knitting and watching a DVD Cathy and Graeme had brought, and I did some more work on the photo album of last year's cruising – I'm about half way through it now, dealing with the floods on the Nene.
Soup and bread for dinner tonight, I think, after the pig out of the rest of the weekend, and an early night.
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