Hot day at Fradley

I really can't remember a day as hot as this in April in the last 57 years or so. We've had hot summers, of course, plenty of those, but this is still before Easter (even if that feast is as late as it can be this year).

We've spent the day loafing at Fradley, treating ourselves to coffee/hot chocolate and cake at the cafe while it was still comparatively cool this morning, and pottering about.

Almost all of the boats moved away in the course of the morning, so that we were left in solitary state:

Was it something we said?

but loads more arrived as the day went on, until by late lunchtime there were no spaces. One or two have moved on again since, so if someone turns up now, they might just find a slot.

So as not to spend the whole day unproductively, I changed the filter in the toilet tank breather, the old one having been wrecked by the overflow in the winter. Part of the filter had disintegrated in the liquid; Leesan are not kidding when they say don't get it wet.

We've decided to travel to Crick the long way round, in view of the stoppage at Ansty on the N Oxford, assuming that this Spring continues as dry as it has been.

After our dental check ups on the 4th of May, we'll head for the Trent and then up the Soar. This presumes that we don't need treatment, of course.

Here's another photo of Sanity Again, just to make up for the hard to see image in the last one:

What a nice boat!