Yesterday evening after a short stroll to The Axe and Compass at Hemingford Abbot we sat and enjoyed a few pints of Old Hooky drawn straight from the keg to wash down a fine pork stir fry. Returning to the boat we were able to watch the sky change colour.
There is no perceivable flow on the river now. Setting off at 1030 we turned and headed upstream, we waited at Houghton Lock for a boat to leave and then we were assisted up by the locking crew of the Ladybird, the St johns Ambulance trip boat. I gave one of them my card so hopefully if he emails me I will have a contact for them. They do sterling work with the disadvantaged and disabled running about 200 trips a year.
Another hour or so saw us approaching Brampton lock and as we passed the weir outlet spotted a cruiser about to go up, as we trugged round the navigation channel I gave a couple of blasts on the horn as instructed and hoped they would hear us. When we got to the lock one gate was open and the chap was walking round to reopen the other, his wife had just spotted us, so they waited which was very good of them.
Just above the lock there has been a piece of land for sale for some time, it looks as if its now sold as over the past couple of weeks a jetty has been installed. Not a very big one.
While we were there Diana had a Damselfly land on her hand and it took a few minutes before she could work out it was eating a fly of some sort. It was very good and waited until after I had taken it photo before flying off again.
1 comment:
Great photo of the damsel fly!
Might be the same one that posed for me then scarpered yesterday!
Heth
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