Thursday was spent mainly
on the boat – there was very fine snow all day but, with the wind, it wasn’t
much fun being outside. For the first
time we can remember, Buddy wasn’t happy in the snow and was quite content to
be stuck on the boat for most of the day.
There was a brief respite
when he came across a flock of fieldfares in the hedge at the bottom of the
gardens where we are moored. He suddenly
forgot the cold and was anxiously looking up at the trees hoping to find some
friends.
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Nearly home and Buddy
suddenly sees some fieldfares
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Talking about the
fieldfares reminds me that I must start using our new camera. We have spent a lot of time watching them on
the bushes opposite the boat and it would be great to get a good picture of
them.
We did pop out again
briefly in the afternoon and walked up several locks of the Hatton flight. It’s quite exposed where it climbs through
some fields so there were some interestingly shaped drifts of snow across the
towpath.
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Karen worked from the boat
on Friday morning and, after lunch, just as it started snowing again, she asked
me if I fancied taking her to visit all the gates in Warwick. I’m always game for anything that keeps us
outside in the snow so how could I say no – I’ll always be a child at heart 😉
There were very few cars
about and even fewer people considering it was a Friday afternoon.
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Northgate – snow beginning
to settle on the roads again
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We walked through all four
gates and, coincidentally, at Westgate, the final one, we realised we were next
to the real ale pub, The Old Post Office.
We needed to warm up and give Buddy a rest so we went in for a quick
beer or two. It’s a great little pub
with some quirky customers as well as customs.
For example, they only take cash and you are encouraged to bring in your
own food and takeaways.
It was snowing hard for
our walk home and when we got back we realised we had left the engine running
all the time we were out! We had
remembered to lock the boat up though and, fortunately, we don’t keep the boat
keys with the ignition key, so the boat was safe 😊
I mentioned the spare nut earlier. Karen found it in on the galley floor so it’s probably
from the fridge, washing machine or oven but, try as I might, I cannot find out
which and everything seems to be working OK and not falling apart, but it
won’t stop me worrying. It’ll probably
end up in the box of things that contains unknown items that I’m too scared to
throw away.
Now Friday is over it’s
time to update Karen’s countdown – five weeks to go before we get on our
travels again!
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The obligatory snow and
ice shot
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