So this is the blog of the water gypsies aboard No Problem at St Neots!!

Weekend and Today – Goldington, Bedford to St Neots, River Gt Ouse, 10.75 miles 5 locks

It certainly was a lot cooler this weekend.. out came the coats, and I very nearly got the gloves out too, but preferred to stay a bit cold than to succumb to autumn!

I like this bit of the river.. it twists and turns and keeps you alert.  There are by-waters going left and right, and sometimes you wonder if you have gone the right way.. the heart rate rises when the river becomes covered in weed.. “maybe we should have gone left?”.. but nothing much can happen if we take the wrong route anyway.. we would just go aground probably.. and there is always a reverse on the gear lever!!

Whittington Lock above in the pic, I am already down as Moore2Life approaches.. there is no hurry in East Anglia.. we think it is a big event if we see a boat each day.. so very quiet and laid back..

I was sad to say goodbye to all the places we have visited this year, Gt Barford….

Here we had the most fantastic ‘family weekend’, now we are heading the other way.. making our way towards winter..

But we will be back.  This evening we are at St Neots, and the river is quiet apart from a few rowing 8’s charging up and down.. yes right now they are charging up and down the river.. take note of the posting time!!..

So the reference to the title tonight.. “So this is the blog of the water gypsies aboard No Problem at St Neots!!”

It isn’t often I purchase a canal magazine.. they are quiet expensive and I can get all I need on the internet canal wise, but I got one this month.  I was a bit miffed by a certain Steve Haywood “The Columnist who speaks his mind”…

This guy is trying to be helpful to boaters who know nothing about their boats.. he has no patience with people like me and Vic..

“But if you think British Waterways are going to sit back while the canals get clogged up with retired couples living the dream, then forget the water, you must have taken up residence in cloud cuckoo land.  At the rate these cash-rich pensioners are selling up their homes and turning into water gypsies, it can only be a matter of time before there are regulations limiting it.  Or big charges levied for the privilege.”

Well Vic and me worked our b******s off for our working life… paid tax every year since we were 16 years old.  Never had a week of unemployment, and worked in excess of 8 hours per day.. now we sold our house and bought our boat and live the dream… we do it properly and follow the mooring code.. read a couple of years of blog, and that will be seen..

I have taken up residence in cuckoo land… If I am a water gypsie then so it be.  Actually that sounds quite nice.. maybe I should potter more on the system and limit my movements to a mere 2 lock miles a day…

Eat 'yer heart out Stevey boy, there will be no room for you on the system. so when you retire….  You will be able to sit in your garden at home on a sunny day, and sit indoors watching the box on a rainy day… enjoy that!