Rain puts us back a day at Napton

Moored Napton, Southern Oxford Canal

It was a very wet day today so we decided to stay at Napton.  Tesco delivered a small order, and we watched out the window while narrowboat upon narrowboat moved up and down the Napton flight of locks.  The steerers had long faces, they were absolutely soaking.  I wondered why they were travelling.. spose they had a reason.

I wandered up to the village shop come post office during a short break in the weather at lunchtime to get some ingredience for a special meal this evening.  Well Tesco had delivered some diced turkey this morning.. I didn’t order it, it just was in one of the bags when I unpacked it.  Our meal tonight was a bit gormet.. it was yummy for sure.  Well it was nice to have ‘a day off’, and I fancied doing some cooking today.  I also made some gingernut biscuits and some shrewsbury biscuits, now the biscuit barrel is full..

Lucy is doing really well, over the weekend she started putting all four feet on the ground at walking pace, such a relief to see her actually using it.  For those not regularly reading this blog, Lucy had a horrendous accident back in May for which she has had two operations on a hip joint.  So now it is a slow pace walk for me keeping her at heal.  I do need not to overdo her though, I guess her pads will get sore as she has not been using that leg for so long. 

Here a view across to the windmill taken yesterday as we arrived at Napton.  There are a variety of animals in this field, always is, and we never know what is going to be in the field each time we arrive.  This time it was full of ponies and brown sheep.  There was one cow.. and Ann of NB Moore2Life took a pic of a deer lying in the field making the most of all the company it had.  I am hoping that it is put on their blog later.

We will go up the flight in the morning, the forecast is good.  It does mean we are a day behind schedule, but we will make that up somewhere no doubt.. heh better that getting a soaking for sure!