Well what can I say about the weather except that it is bloody freezing. At least we don't have the snow they have in Kent so I suppose we should be grateful for that. Managed to get to Daventryon Friday before the snow came down so I have some food.
Our friends Betty and Graham arrived here late yesterday (Fri) and Graham was frozen made them a hot drink to thaw them out.
Windows are performing well, but we do have a bit of a problem in as much as when Paul fitted the first one it was a really tight fit so the subsequent ones he shaved a sixteenth off, now we have found that the acrylic has shrunk due to the change in temperature and so now the windows aren't a snug fit allowing a bit of condensation to form. But will this beat Paul of course not, he already has a plan so until this can be put into action he has put tape along the top of the errant windows to keep them in place and this has cured the problem for the time being.
The frozen up window is in the kitchen.
Double glazed
Saturday morning we popped to the Gongoozlers for breakfast and on the way saw a couple of shared ownership boats trying to make their way through the ice causing havoc as at one point the leading boat lost steerage and smacked into a moored boat. They got as far as the road bridge where the ice was very thick and eventually gave up trying to make way and then proceed to reverse back to the marina where they moored back at the same place they had left.
At about 4 pm we heard the ice cracking and blow me if there weren't 3 boats coming down from Hillmorton, the lead boat was a hireboat and at one point they were making no headway at all so they gave up and pulled up in front of us. Seeing their dilema the other 2 boats did the same thing so now this stretch of the canal is full.
Last night we met up with Roy and Barabara nb Wells Fargo for a bit of a bash, there were 18 of us in all at the Boathouse pub formerly the Millhouse. We were pleasantly surprised the food was very nice although it could have been a bit hotter and their normal menu looks okay too, a vast improvement on the food when it was the Millhouse. We staggered back to the boat around 11.15 having spent a very pleasant evening. Thank you Elizabeth and Peter nb Bella for your company on our table.
Today is sunny and very crisp, the canal is still frozen but of course since the boats came past yesterday it is now at least 6 inches thick in places. Gosty Hill is due tomorrow they were seen at Calcutt yesterday so hopefully they will be able to get to us before Christmas and then onto their home mooring for a well earned day off .
Paul has made his weekly connection to his brother in Oz via Skype and it is 30 degrees in Perth thanks for that Eric. Have found that since we put the dongle on a broom handle we have a half decent
signal here in Braunston which we never did 
before.These pictures are for you Eric just in case you didn't believe your brother about the state of the canal.
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