A windless trip to Godmanchester

Remote below Offord Lock to Godmanchester, River Great Ouse, 4 miles 1 lock

They are very brave, those with tupperware tart carts I mean, to go into a lock and let me come in afterwards.. I wondered if I had trusting eyes, or maybe they needed a bit of a touch up done on their boats.. an insurance job if I had bumped them.  But I took it steady and the ‘torpedo’ fitted in well with the tart carts.. everyone was very friendly too

Hey, you can see the roof well from this pic, looks good eh?  Vic did a wonderful job on it.. well I did help a bit and fetched tea at his lordships request

Not a puff of wind today which makes for good boating on NP.. just sit back and let her go with the flow as they say.  Actually there isn’t much flow at all on this river at the moment, in fact while I was fishing yesterday it was flowing back upstream!  I guess they  must have been taking some water off the river for the reservoir half a mile upstream from us.. but it was odd to see it flow the other way!

Godmanchester is a lovely town.  It has a Post Office, butcher, baker and general store, oh and a couple of pubs too.  It also has a smashing fish and chip shop.. I know that because I tested it out for our tea tonight.  Godmanchester, it says in my Imray book, is arguably the oldest town in Cambridgeshire, possible dating from the Neolithic settlement of farmers developing the light river soils and gravels.  There you go then!

I believe the bit about the gravels though.. loads of old and new pits, and again walking this afternoon came across yet another of these lovely Nature Reserves that are all over the place along this river.  It is a lovely town though, full of timber framed 17th century houses, a real delight to wander round.  We didn’t come here on the way up river, but we are very pleased we stopped on the way down.  The moorings are lovely too, off the main river in open parkland where we are the only boat here on the visitor moorings .. so no passing boats today!

Here is my backyard today….