I'm back, if briefly

It was a great show, though not entirely hassle free. We finally left Crick today, and had a good run down Watford to tie just before the Welton Haven marina. It's a lovely spot, that claims to have a good 3 signal, but it's one of those erratic ones that just stops from time to time.

So I'm not going to do a great long blog today, and the blogs will probably be a bit short for the next couple of days (Braunston tomorrow). So, good things about the show:

• We had lots of Braidbars there, 7 on the towpath and two in the marina, plus loads of other owners came and saw us on the stand.
• There was a lot of admiring interest in Bunnies Warren especially from folk interested in reverse layout.
• We came an honourable third in the Favourite Boat in Show.
• The socialising was phenomenal. We had 19 for the pre show party on Sanity Again (still don't know how I did it), and then smaller groups ate together on Saturday and Sunday.
• Monday, Peter and Susan kindly bought us a meal at The Moorings (formerly Edwards), and some of those present presented me with an elegantly tied napkin in lieu of a Commodore's hat. Typically of the Braidbar Owners' Group, it was a very nice gesture done in a humorous way, and I was really quite flattered.

Less good:

• The hassle about the towpath moorings. I'll write about this at more length later this week, I think
• The rain on the Monday
• Martin Ludgate never showed up with the bottle of whisky we won in the Canal Boat christmas quiz, but no surprise there.
• We only managed third in the Favourite Boat in Show

More stuff when we're on a better connection, including some photos of the Washmatik system we've bought for cleaning the outside of the boat. It's simple, and it works!