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Not what Buddy expected to
find when he went through the bridge hole this morning
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Saturday didn’t start too
well for Sophie, my eldest daughter, as she hit a deer on her way to work at
4.30 in the morning. She was OK but the
car had a lot of damage and was not driveable and the deer was killed
instantly. In the interests of decency I
haven’t included a picture of the deer.
Fortunately for Sophie two guys stopped and help her sort things out
like moving the deer and calling the police and the breakdown company.
Buddy and I went down to
Reading on Saturday morning as Lauren, my middle daughter, was hosting a family
get together for the weekend. Karen had
been in Scotland for a couple of days so she headed to Reading by train. Lauren had bought some self assembly
furniture so she and I spent a few hours wrestling with that when I arrived but
we got the job done.
Before we drove to Reading
I ran the boat engine in gear and at
high revs for a while – apparently this is meant to be done every so often to
burn off carbon deposits amongst other things.
It’s always difficult to find somewhere to do this as you don’t want to
erode the canal bank, annoy neighbours or find your boat getting free and
careering off down the cut.
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Disturbing the peace on
Saturday morning. All three criteria met
– no neighbours to annoy, bank protected by metal Armco and boat moored
securely.
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As I mentioned the other
day there is a Polish family living in the woods just down from where we are moored
but I haven’t managed to find out any more about their circumstances as only
the girl was around on Saturday morning and she has very little English.
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Our Polish neighbours
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A few of our family stayed
at Lauren’s on Saturday evening and the rest came over on Sunday - well six of
our nine children were there, some with partners.
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Part of our family
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Amanda always makes a
pavlova for family get-togethers and this weekend’s one was as good as ever.
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Another one of Amanda’s amazing
pavlovas and a cheesecake as a little extra
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Before we left on Sunday
evening we did a few odd jobs for Lauren and she learnt how to use the electric
drill we had given her for her birthday.
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Lauren doing man stuff
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On our way home to the
boat we dropped Matthew (Karen’s eldest) off in Oxford and Catherine (her
middle one) at Rugby station.
It was a great family
weekend away from the boat and good to have a lot of catch up time with most of
our children.
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