A weekend of surprise visitors ...

We're still at our favourite, peaceful mooring and guess what ...

 it was bbq time (Thursday 21st) of course and summer solstice too!

A couple of hours afterwards as the bbq was cooling down ...

 we had our first visitors ... they're very curious ...

 This one actually licked the top and jumped away, startling the others ... the bbq fell over and George managed to retrieve it and persuade the cows to be on their way.

 The sun going down behind the trees 9 o'clock

George is playing with some coloured LED lights on the rear deck so that we can stay up there in the evenings but the lights don't quite reach the back of the deck where we would be sitting and they are also blinding if you looked directly at them ... time for a rethink.

We first walked into Sutton Courtenay back in 2017 when we saw this beautiful house being re-thatched

  and today (Saturday 22nd)  it was looking spectacular!

 It's a walk of about two miles each way through some lovely countryside.

 Just after 8pm the calves made a return visit ... they're a mixture of bulls and heifers ...

 and they just loved being petted ...

 so much so that ...

 they were reluctant to leave and once again had to be persuaded!

 Yesterday's dawn (Sunday) was very peaceful and calm, not a breath of wind.

We were having a 'clean-up' day and I had the vacuum cleaner out when I noticed through the window that a boat was coming alongside ... what the ** I thought ... who would do that without being invited ...

It was nb Milly M ... Maffi and the lovely Susan and not forgetting Molly too.  The vacuum cleaner was soon moved away and they were invited in for a cuppa and we had a lovely catchup too.  

They were on a mission and couldn't stay long but it was so good to see Maffi and the slimline Molly again and to meet Susan for the first time of hopefully many more.

Once they'd cruised away the clean-up continued and was soon accomplished and the remainder of Sunday was spent relaxing in the now very humid heat ... there are thunderstorms forecast over the next few days ... 

but for today (it's now Monday the 24th June) we shall be on the move again ourselves.