Well, I have a nice hair cut a snip (pardon the pun) at £18.50 bit dearer then the £6.50 at Hilmorton but worth it.Post also came and that is all filed away. Our friends Pete and Carol arrived here yesterday so a session in The Bridge Inn ensued. I showed some restraint and only had 2 halves of cider and a coke Paul had 4 yes 4 pints of dark mild and had to get up 3 times in the night, serves him right I say. Was lovely to catch up with our friends again.
This morning it was back to the antique shop in the village and we now have a lovely old brass oil lamp which Paul has converted to electric. While in the village we also bought a couple of pots and plants for the roof of the boat.
Carol and Pete moved on this afternoon going just a bit further as Pete hopes to find a decent fishing spot. As we have decided to make a move tomorrow we will probably catch up with them again. I will be sorry to leave this lovely place everyone here is so friendly it is nice to go to a place where the residents actually speak to you and shopkeepers pass the time of day. I am sure we will find some other nice villages on this tranquil canal.
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- After years of working,Paul and I retired early. I worked in accounts departments and Paul spent 39 years as an Electrical Mechanical engineer in the industrial refrigeration industry. Paul also served time as a refrigeration engineer officer with P&O, to-ing and fro-ing to NZ. In 2001 we decided to move to Spain where we bought an old Spanish finca that needed total renovation. We took our 1500 Goldwing with us to Spain planning to explore the country. But because of the amount of work that needed doing to the finca we were unable to get full use of our lovely motorbike. So it was shipped back to England where it was sold. It took us 3 1/2 years to finish the house, by which time Paul was hankering after another bike so we bought a new Honda VTX 1300 cruiser which was a pleasure to use with our biker friends. In 2007 the writing was on the wall so we decided to return to the UK and bought our lovely narrowboat which was a big step for me as I had never dreamt of living on a narrowboat. Paul has had sailing boats in the past and regulary crewed on a Medway Bawley Gaffer and raced in many local events. We are continuous cruisers planning to explore as much as we can.
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