Visitors help out at the weekend...

Moored Devizes, Kennet and Avon Canal

It's a long way really to Swindon, one day hopefully we will take our narrowboat, but on Sunday we were very grateful to Ron, aka F_O_R often to be seen making a comment, for coming up from Dorset and taking me to B & Q to fetch some flooring stips.

Before that though, his large car managed to cart the old mattress from new No Problem to the local recycling centre along with the remenants of carpet that has been ripped up from the floor. In between doing all that we had time for some socialising, elevensis consisted of huge cookies which Ron brought along, lunch was homemade soup and for afternoon there were more cookies!..

Here, Ron and the girls Rhiannon and Megran.. I do hope I have spelt that right... It was great to see them all, the last time I had seen the family was a few years ago at Dundas Wharf a little further along the K&A towards Bath, although Ron popped in to Ely a couple of summers ago.. thanks Ron, really enjoyed our day..

While we did the running around Vic was left aboard NP Mk2 still knocking up the dinette.. a difficult design I have given him, but he has his head around it now and is doing well...

Blimey the weather changes again and this morning a blast from the North.. But we had other things to do today.. a trip to the woodyard for some more timber.. here we were a bit lucky, I commandeered a really nice guy with a nice big transit and asked if he would transport our chosen wood to the Marina for a fiver.. well, it isn't far, only about threequarters of a mile from the woodyard, but too far to carry stuff.. "Yep No Problem" teehee I love it when they say that.. ..

So Vic and the guy loaded the Van, and went off down the road towards the Marina while I walked back with Lucy.. Well I couldn't ask the very nice man to take muddy 'ol Lucy as well!!

After loading everything into Mk 2 we then went off in Mk1 to Devizes town wharf to dispose of the mountain of rubbish that had built up, plus take the rubbish for our winter companions Chas and Ann of NB Moore2Life.. but we hadn't gone far when there was a hold up.. a big hold up...

A huge dutch barge stopped under the bridge, we were going nowhere, so I slid in along side it and Vic went off to find out why..

Ah-ha a veggie cutter.. broken down in the middle of the cut..

Gawd and look at the mud on those towpaths again! We came to the conclusion by what was being said that the hydraulic jacks that are stuck down on the bed of the canal had stuck because they had run out of hydraulic oil!.. a wait of over half hour gave us time to have some lunch, then off to town for much needed water for Mk1.. Ha I noticed that going along the back fender was actually in the water!.. Goodness we must have been nearly out of water!..

Vic 'did' the rubbish and the loo cassettes while I went into town to get milk and the like.. before retuning back to the boatyard again.. brrrr is sure is cold tonight!