Pottering at Branston

We've had a quiet day at Branston, pottering about, with a trip to Morrisons first thing, then internet stuff and reading the paper back at the boat.

We did stir ourselves after lunch, it being very pleasant out, and washed the port side of the boat. It still has a long streak of tar down it where stuff from the chimney has run back along the gutter and dribbled down the side, but once the stain remover arrives we'll be able to get rid of that, hopefully. At least the dodge with foam between the two skins of the chimneys has worked a treat; we've had no further eruptions since then.

Big event of the afternoon, just after lunch, in fact, was seeing Granny Buttons passing by. Not only was iconic blogger Andrew Denny steering, he had as crew the fons et origo of the Pearson's Canal Companions, Michael Pearson himself.

Being Andrew, photos were taken of me leaning out of the side hatches waving a handful of the guides, all good fun and the kind of thing that makes life on board so worthwhile. You'd be unlikely to look out of your lounge window on a Saturday lunchtime in Spring and see someone whose work you've admired for years passing by, would you?