What a way to spend a day.

Today is my 60th birthday! How did I get to be that old? I don't FEEL 60! Well,ok, when my knees are giving me jip, I suppose there were times when I feel older...but  I'm not ready for old fogeydom yet. I can remember when being 30 sounded positively ancient...as Sandy Denny asked "Who knows where the time goes?"  But what better way to spend the day than on our boat, on the canal. It's been very windy but at least it stayed dry. We certainly met lots of boats along the way. Hire boats,just setting off on their canal break,  day boats full of enthusiastic people who forgot to tie them up, and didn't notice they were half way across the cut! Plus there were plenty of people taking their boats out for the first time this season. So the canal not as quiet as we've been used to of late, but it makes it interesting. And now my other half is cooking me a nice dinner and opening a bottle of wine. No better way to spend the day. Apologies to friends and family who can't be with us. We'll celebrate later in the week.

are we having fun yet?

Didn't it rain?!

So after a day in the marina, me and my gammy leg finally set sail this morning with Mike doing all the running around (no change there, I hear him mutter!). Of course, as soon as the bow of the boat exited the marina , the rain began. Not just little spit spotty friendly rain, oh no ! Big, fat,soak you to the skin in two minutes rain! But hey, we're out on the boat and heading off towards Stone after a six week enforced no boating hiatus, so who cares? And it didn't stop there. We passed through bands of rain and brief spells of sunshine when we steamed gently. So May is the new April, I have a new knee and we're back in business. Moored up for the night beyond Sandon lock and at the centre of a typhoon. Ok, slight exaggeration, but very windy. Woodburner alight, wine opened and stirfry on the horizon. Woohoo!