Wow it’s
July, it's been just over three weeks since we set off, its only writing the
blog that makes me remember what day it is.
We are going into Tewkesbury today but there’s no hurry as we have all
day. Its bright and a little breezy,
Derek was warm but he had been walking dogs and getting the paper and its up
quite a steep slope up into town. At 9:20
a Tug came through the lock, it was called Billy, its funny that tugs seem to
have a masculine name and lots of NBs have feminine ones, modern ones that
is. I think it could because when they
were working boats like tugs the names were given by the skippers who of course
ruled the roost. The modern NBs are
usually named to persuade Mrs. NB that its a good idea to own one, or is that
just me. ???? Had a lovely day, we
walked into town, Derek having had a talk with the Lockie telling tales of the
2007 flood. A NB is above where we are
moored, on dry land and has been since the floods last November, in 2007 it was a lot higher and lasted for 17 days, phew that’s a lot of water. The Lockie said they could only get out of
their bungalow by boat and they had to move lots of moored boats to safety till
the waters subsided. Tewkesbury is a
lovely place, lots of quaint buildings, charity shops (just for me) antique
shops and trendy ones too. We had a
coffee and a cake (with Derek so cake is compulsory) and found lots of bits and
pieces in various shops so I was very happy.
Back to the boat, we had lunch and I finished painting the roses on the
bottom of the back door panels, whilst Derek had a nap. I went back into town to look at an antique
shop I had missed and left Derek to do the hovering and run the generator for a
while. I had lovely chat to the man in
the antique shop, well it was three floors of a mill like building, called the
Coach House. There is a festival of the
Battle at Tewkesbury in July and he was painting a life size figure of a knight
and I told him I had been painting roses on the boat, he showed me the figure
and it was really life like and very impressive. He asked about the boat and the journey we
had been on and was very impressed with it all.
I went to the tourist information centre and got a 50p pamphlet telling
you all about the Battle of 1471 and the festival they have to remember it, it
sounds great, battle re-enactments, a medieval market, jesters, jugglers,
dragons, the works and not a drop of blood spilt, that must be a bonus. Unfortunately it’s on 13th and 14th
of July so we will be elsewhere, we do intend to bring the kids back here after
we collect them, so they can see how lovely it is. When I got back to the boat for teatime, the
couple from the boat now moored behind us, NB Lamprey came and had a long chat
with us about their boat and how they came to boating 17 years ago and their
involvement with the Boating Festivals along the canals. They are going to the Festival at Stratford
on Avon in a week or so, needless to say we are quite pleased we will not be
there for that as it’s certainly not our scene.
Anyway each to his own.
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