Today we left Hawkesbury in relatively calm weather wetties on just in case. Through the stop lock and onto the Oxford weather still ok so wetties off, wrong move, 5 minutes later I was running around like a headless chicken putting wetties back on getting the dogs off the back into the boat (nothing smells worse than a damp dog, well Pauls socks come a close second). The rain was really hammering down, there were 4 boats in a line and endless boats coming the other way and as each boat passes you smile and say "Hello" as if it is the most normal thing in the world to be on the back of a boat in the pouring rain. I can understand hire boaters having to be back at a certain time but us, we could have just pulled over and moored up are we mad or what. We eventually threw in the towel at 2pm moored up just past bridge 34. It is a good job we have putting the canopy up down to a fine art we just about managed it before the heavens opened again and there was thunder and lightening, quite exciting really.
Will get to Rugby tomorrow Paul has a list of bits to buy so he will be busy for a few days. He is fishing again but he cant be that lucky to catch something 2 days on the trot, it is normally more like one every 2 weeks. Is he doing something wrong I ask myself.
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