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Crick Boat Show.jpg) Sunday 28 MayThe Bank Holiday weekend started with rain yesterday. Reports from the Crick Boat Show were of a very muddy car park in the fields so we weren’t looking forward to that for our trip today. In the end our problems started before we got there. The road for the last mile and a half from the motorway to the boat show was closed because of a fire in a local factory and had been since the previous evening. There was nothing on the internet travel news before leaving home and we heard nothing on the radio travel news before arriving. The last mile and a half took a 10 mile detour and nearly two hours. At least the car park wasn’t as muddy as the previous day. We were rather disappointed by the show. It seemed rather crowded but that was because there wasn’t much space for visitors between the stands rather than there being lots of visitors. Some of the stands were professionally laid out with helpful staff but others were just a pile of wares on an old table with someone sitting reading a paperback book in a deckchair and making no attempt to sell anything. We left by early afternoon. .jpg) Rather than heading home to Bristol we travelled further east to Thrapston to meet Sue, Vic and Lucy on No Problem and Chas, Ann and Molly on Moore2Life. It was nice to see Lucy who was quiet and subdued after her ordeal with her broken back leg but really very well under the circumstances. We had originally planned to help with a lift home from the vet’s hospital for Lucy but poor communications from the vets meant we were a day too late. It was lovely to everybody again and to discuss the latest news. We sat at a picnic table next to the boats moored on the Nene. It is pronounced "Nen" to rhyme with "pen" as we were upstream of the bridge at Thrapston – and is pronounced "Neene" to rhyme with "queen" on the downstream side. In the 90 minutes were were there we watched the boat rise over 20cm (8") and then lower to the original level as the water flow on the river changed. Posted on Sunday, 28 May 2006 at 14:54 Comments (0) |
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