A different sort of Tesco delivery

Friday (29th May) ... our Tesco order is due ... George has walked to the marina about a mile away to be there in time for the delivery.  Peter from the marina had offered to bring our goodies to us via his houseboat so that we could move to Medmenham meadow last week to ensure that we got a suitable mooring ...

 Here they come ... sitting the appropriate distance apart with the Tesco shopping on the deck ...

 George stands up to go to the back of the boat to collect the mooring rope ... and as Peter starts to bring Gypsy Willow over the channel ... suddenly ...

 it becomes busy!

 Peter continues the turn ...

 and along comes another boat!

Eventually Peter brings his boat alongside, the shopping is unloaded and after a cuppa ( goes without saying re distancing) and a catch up they return to the marina.  Thank you so much Peter and Karin for your help today.

Bank Holiday Weekend ...

Saturday (23rd May) started a bit cloudy and although we were able to sit on the deck we had several short sharp windy showers throughout the day

On Saturday when the Canadians came by with their young family the lambs were most interested but Mr/Mrs Canada Goose kept a wary glare on them

Out for a walk to the marina to collect some post we passed this crop growing in lots of fields - can't find what it is - anyone know - David Lewis?

At the marina we noticed that after the rain of yesterday the water was overflowing the weirs unlike it was when we left a week ago.

Back at the meadow (about midday) we were amazed at the amount of people around.

There's a dead, skeletal  tree just behind the boat and pair of pied wagtails were busy flying in and out of it all afternoon

7:20 on Monday morning and a hot air balloon rises in the clear blue sky ... it's going to be another hot one.

Both the river and the meadow was the busiest we've ever seen  with water birds, dog walkers, family outings and picnickers...

canoeists and paddle boarders ...

rowers and cruisers, both big and small ...

and wild swimmers ... lots of them ... from early morning until late afternoon

Later in the afternoon this lady came along telling George (I was currently on the phone to my eldest granddaughter) and said that she had a very good friend who I used to work with and who followed the blog so knew that we were moored here on Medmenham Meadow.  This is Glenys and our mutual friend is Catrin Morris who I used to work with at Dolgellau Hospital.  Thank you Glenys for calling by and saying hello and I apologise for not being able to have a proper conversation with you.  I'm sure you'll understand, my granddaughter is a deputy sister on a covid ward in Stockport Hospital and our conversations are very precious.

We whiled away the rest of the afternoon on the deck watching the world go by until ...

it was bbq time ... yeah!

As we were packing away along came these folk carrying ....  swans?

no motor, no paddles, no oars ... just swanning about!

And a magnificent sunset to end the day.

Day one in our new location ...

2:30pm Friday (22nd May)

7pm

8pm

8:30pm

8:45pm

9pm

Day two was very windy up to 67kph and squally showers and not very warm!

For the very first time ...

The days before we left ... Wednesday (20th May) ...

We took a walk to Medmenham Meadow to see what space there was like ... plenty and 'our' space was free too ... goody, goody!

When we were sitting on the deck later we were surprised to see swimmers coming up the weir stream and even more surprised when one of them stood up on a sand bank ... so we knew to be wary of that when we moved off.

We thought that they would have turned back once they saw the strength of the water coming over the weir, but no, off they went round the island into the lock cut

First cygnets too this year ...

and a pretty evening scene at 9 o'clock

Thursday (21st) was as the title states ...

I have always been very envious, even a little jealous ...

of other folk seeing the sight of cygnets riding on mum's back ...

let alone getting a photo of this event ... so I am so thrilled to have witnessed this.