Getting Post in St Ives is annoying and Houghton Island

St Ives to Houghton, River Gt Ouse, 2.25 miles 1 lock

Blimey, and still it rains!

I collected the post this morning, and what a performance that was.  I went to the Royal Mail Sorting Office as I was told to do the other day.. “What is Post Restante Mail?”.. Can you believe that, even the Royal Mail people do not know what Post Restante mail is.  “No we don’t have it.. do you have the card dropped through your door box”.. “Eh?  I live on a boat!”.. I could go on, but I won’t..

So off I trapsed to the Post Office “No we don’t have your mail here, it is at the Sorting Office… Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

“I assure you you do have my mail here please look for it”.. “We don’t have it” “You DO, please go and find it, it has arrived I checked on the tracking!”

In the end he decided to get up from his seat at the PO Counter and go have a look.. “Errrrr I have found some mail for you”.. “Ah good, thankyou” … “Do you have some identification”… I had to smile, as if someone else would try to get mail at this Post Office .. I don’t think anyone else would be so patient.. But I had a feeling this jobsworth bloke chap would be asking me for ID.. so I took my passport..

Back to No Problem with it to sort some importent stuff that needed putting back in the post, and that done went back into St Ives to visit the, by now, very sheepish chap again before picking up some fresh fruit and veg from one of the best market stall grocers I have seen for a very long time.. then onward!!..

Past the lovely Hemingford Grey moorings then past the GOBA moorings which are being readied for the Regatta in the morning. ..

We can’t stop at either over the weekend because of the regatta, which is one of the oldest village regattas in the county, so we have stopped just short of Houghton Lock on an Island where there are some decent 48 hour Environment Agency Moorings..

I hope the rain stops sometime this evening, I really don’t feel like another soaking.  It makes the boat damp too when Lucy and Meg keep coming in wet.. It had better not rain down in Weybridge on Sunday evening, the Elton John Concert is in the open air!