Monday 29th July
It has been a day of sunshine and some fairly hefty showers and we have travelled 8 miles from Saul Junction back to Gloucester, taking a couple of hours. Ken got fairly wet a couple of times on the way here, funnily enough I found doing the ironing a strangely attractive prospect!
When we got to Gloucester we wanted to go to Sainsbury’s but just before we got to the moorings someone nipped in to the last space! We carried on to a pontoon in front of the light ship and pulled in. There was another boat moored there with a notice in the window – ‘Gone to hospital, emergency’.I looked at the signs and they said it was a mooring for boats waiting for Llanthony Bridge. We only wanted to go shopping so I phoned the bridge keeper at Llanthony Bridge to ask him if it was ok if we left the boat there for a little while. He seemed amused by the fact that I had even bothered to ask and said it was fine.
So we went off to Sainsbury’s and restocked (no spam for tea tonight!) then moved on to the dock. We are moored on the West Quay moorings where the wall is a bit high but it’s less noisy than the pontoons outside the bar opposite and the sea gulls don’t seem to fly right over head here so maybe I won’t have to clean the roof tomorrow. Mind you with this high mooring I wouldn’t have any problem getting up on the roof!
After putting the shopping away we went in to town for the usual reason. Tomorrow we will go in again, for shopping this time. Ken needs new maggots and I need new knickers!
I was talking about there being no spam for tea tonight and indeed there wasn’t. My ‘hunter gatherer’ husband has hunted and gathered and we had a very nice Zander which he caught last night. You can’t get much fresher fish than that!
A steak and chips at Wetherspoon’s is on the cards for tomorrow night, which won’t take so long to materialise I hope!
