A Trip down memory lane to Newmarket..

Weekend – Moored Ely, River Gt Ouse

Beautiful weekend it was.. sunny blue skies everyday and very warm with it..

Steve, one of my blog readers popped by on Friday and brought some lovely cakes for us which we had with tea.. thanks Steve it was great to see you.  Then on Saturday Kevin and Deborah came by with their two huge dogs.. Kevin actually sold me a phone that had an orange everyday50 tariff on it.  This was before we had bought No Problem, and it was only by chance that Kevin found out that the blog he was reading could actually be the person he sold the phone to.. a quick email to find out and sure enough it was!!

So smashing to see visitors this weekend.. however we are still here and not on our way to Denver yet.. we think we might have a cylinder head gasket gone.. .  We have been having a few off and on problems with the water boiling over… not all the time, just sometimes.  Vic was sure there was air getting into the system, he would bleed it each day.. and we had yet another engineer take a look at it on Saturday, and he thinks that is what it is… It will be checked out tomorrow..

We went through Ely Riverside to the far end of the waterfront yesterday to get some water and do the loo cassettes just in case the engineer wanted to start his investigations today..

There sure were a lot of people around enjoying the sunshine.  The big dutch barge on the left with the huge sail mast is now for sale.  It was here last year, and it was being renovated by volunteers.  If it is moved after being sold it will be missed by many.  Lucy is improving all the time, and I took out her stitches yesterday, and I am exercising her as much as possible, walking in the morning and in the evening.  I caught the glorious sunset across the meadow towards Ely Cathedral last night too…

So today the engineer decided not to start today on trying to find a solution to our overheating, so Vic and I jumped on the bus to Newmarket to revisit some of our haunts of some 40 and 50 years ago! .  We didn’t know each other then of course, but Vic was here when he was only a young lad, he worked for Noel Murless, and the trainer that I worked for was Capt Boyd-Rochford.. the father of the top trainer Henry Cecil.  We wandered around Newmarket remembering this and remembering that.. then went to have a look at the stables that we spent our young days at.. Well Vic didn’t, but I did… Noel Murless had his yard at the top of Warren Hill, right at the top of this gallop that we both used to ride the racehorses up…

Ah we had a great day out today.. had lunch at the pub both of us used to frequent all those years ago.. went here, went there… lovely.

OK, off out now.. Going to ‘The Cutter’ to meet Mo and Vanessa on NB Balmaha.. they are leaving tomorrow.. so a couple of pints shared before they are off..