A quiet few days at Ringstead

Weekend and today – Moored close to Ringstead Lock, River Nene

Not one boat passed on Saturday.. one or two on Sunday and today again we have not seen a boat..

We normally moor at the weekends because boaters are out and about from their Marinas enjoying themselves, but this weekend has been rather odd.  Even though we are on the Nene, I would have expected more boats about… never mind, I love it really!!

Here is No Problem beside the bank..

Along the top of the ‘bank’ is a lovely grassy track that stretches alongside the river and down to some lakes where fishermen have been camping out and spending the whole weekend trying to catch the biggest carp.  To be honest I have not seen any of them catch anything, let alone a carp, and they were fishing all night long too.  It is a really lovely area here, and I have done plenty of walking in the area.  I can’t believe the number of fields that has oil seed rape in them, seems the whole area is a sea of yellow…

Here I took a pic of Ann walking along a footpath right through the middle of one of the fields yesterday!..

Gave NP a bit of a ‘brush up’ yesterday.. it is amazing how much gets brought inside, plus Lucy's hairs on the floor everywhere.. I am so pleased we decided to lay the floorboards last year instead of having a carpet, it has made such a huge difference.  Much easier to clean through, and much quicker too!  We do have some loose mats which takes away the starkness of the floor.. Anyway I decided to take away the tiles in front of the fire while I was at it.. summer is here surely I thought!

Having said that, it rained off and on today, and each time we thought there was a break in the weather enough to move on down to Denford, it started to rain again.. so in the end decided to stay here ‘til tomorrow.  We will miss out on our stop at Denford, and go on to Thrapston where we have booked a Tesco Home Delivery for tomorrow afternoon.. The freezer is more or less empty too, so a visit to the butcher is needed as well. Definitely back upstream to Denford though for a few days afterwards.

I will update the Picture Albums shortly, there are over 60 pics in the May album already!