Busy at Braunston

Moored at Braunston, Grand Union Main Line

After a visit to the excellent butcher here in the village, jumped on the bus and visited Roadpro this morning to pick up the satellite system for our boat. A Kirsten sky dish, very small that works very well on narrowboats. Even with movement of the boat it will still lock on to the signal and produce super pictures. Just got to be in line of sight of the satellite for it to work 100%, so probably mooring in the woods would not be a good idea!

Branunston is very busy with most mooring spaces taken up. We have a 48hr mooring here, so will have to vacate the main centre on Saturday and move to the outskirts where there are 14 day moorings if we want to stay for the weekend. There are wardens who patrol daily and note the names of the boats moored, so I dont think we will get away with more than we are allowed.

Also today have seen the fridge we would like, and after a check on internet prices for the fridge, we were pleased to see that the chandlery here at the bottom lock is the cheapest, so tomorrow we will back down and get that on board.

As for the canopy, AJ are so busy at the moment they have asked me to take the cover to them and come back in a weeks time for the repairs to be done....... darn that means no front cover for a week and it is due to throw down some of that wet stuff again. So tomorrow early it will be carpets up and items stowed away inside the boat. It will feel strange not to have a cratch cover on the front I am sure! Still got to get all the curtains down for their wash, sheeeeeesh it's non stop at the moment.