Summer Saturday in Whittington

No surprises; we had a brilliant evening with Des and Gill last night, good food, good wine, great conversation. It was quite late before we got to bed so a lazy start this morning, especially as we weren't going anywhere.

I got a paper from the shop after breakfast, then a bit later we visited the monthly craft and food market in the Bell Inn car park. Here we got sausages, a piece of pork fillet and a couple of home made mini quiches to have with salad tonight.

Back at the boat we did some constructive loafing and reading and I spent a bit of time wrestling with the Yahoo website's way of handling photos. Like everything else about Yaboo, this used to be straightforward and intuitive but is now a dysfunctional nightmare.

Thanks to Des's expert input we should have something better in a while in the form of a proper Owners' Group website.

After lunch we took a walk down the towpath to Whittington bridge and then into the village and so back to the boat. I used the Garmin GPS to find that distance-wise, there's very little to choose between the two routes into the village. As mooring by Whittington bridge should be quieter being further from the railway, and it is on a wider bit of canal, we'll make a habit of stopping there in future.

Tomorrow, a lazy start and then on to Fradley and a rendezvous with Elanor and Sally.