Great Barford.. A night out too

Moored Great Barford, River Gt Ouse

Had a smashing night out in the pub here right by the EA moorings last night. A fine meal it was too, and has gone to number two of best evening meals.. I must put my list up sometime   A very friendly pub is The Anchor, and it is very busy too, the landlady telling me that they served 51 meals.. not bad for a Wednesday!

This morning we crossed the river to moor on the lovely GOBA moorings dead opposite the EA ones.  It doesn’t have a nice edge to step off, and is a bit awkward.. but well worth it, with well over 8–9 acres of open parkland with no riverside path.. the dogs were in their element..

Here you go then, your first look at the pup Tilly.. it’s a bit out of focus, hey you can’t tell a pup to stand still you know!  I’ll get a better one later.

This morning I spent most of the time indoors on the computer.. I promised the family I would do a little project for them, and that has turned out to be bigger than I thought, and taking far too much of my time… still never mind.. it’s just that the dogs are putting me under pressure to walk, they seem to take turns to come in and ‘ask for walkies’ making me feel very guilty..

Later this evening though, I did take them on quite a hike over some lovely footpaths in the area, so now at last they are all flat out somewhere on NP..

My backyard today

Taken at dusk, and see that little boat in front of us.. well that is the electric boat I talked about yesterday… they did make it to Priory Marina in Bedford to charge their batteries, and all the way back to here today.  I chatted to the lady.. oh and not so elderly either!  Well my excuse for calling her elderly yesterday is that she was quite a long way away from me!

Anyway, chatting away, she told me that she owns Westview Marina at Earith, and although she and hubby are on their hols, they have been getting phone calls for the use of their crane!  The reason why is that their crane is the biggest crane on the Great River Ouse!   Their marina moorings are full, and they also run a caravan site.. I loved their little boat though, the top is covered in solar panels.  “We could go on forever in this weather” says she… Yep I have to agree with her on that, it has been glorious!