Visitors at St Neots and overstaying.. who me?

St Neots to Great Barford, River Great Ouse, 8 miles 3 locks

Mr Tesco actually bought our order right to the galley window today.. I took the glass out, and the bags were passed in from the huge trolly that he had brought down to the pontoon.. Good ‘ol Mr Tesco.. talk about delivery to your larder, he delivered to within 6ft of my larder!!

I was quite pleased that our delivery didn’t arrive until late into our 10–noon slot otherwise I would have missed blog readers Pauline and Gerry from Lowestoft, passing by on their way to their narrowboat Dash moored on the BCN (Birmingham Canal Navigations)…

It was lovely to meet you both and spend some time chatting.. Now you can see the pontoon that Mr Tesco brought his big trolly to as well!!..

Pins pulled then just after lunch, the clouds now covered the what was blue sky, but no worry, hey at last there was no chilly wind, it was warmer!..

First lock today was Eaton Socon, where we had to wait for two narrowboats to lock through… The first emerging Narrowboat was The Chequered Flag.. “Hey now I see you are overstaying the lock moorings” shouted Jane a reference to our overstay in Ely earlier.. Dick was laughing, and I gave them both a salute.. oh and one of my ‘special’ salutes … nice to see them again after meeting the pair in Ely earlier in the month….

Onward to Great Barford to meet good friend John Sinclair who is whisking us off tomorrow for a day out which I will tell you about later…

I am sorry if you live here, but this I absolutely hate.. in this day and age why or why do they build a complex like this……

It has a marina type moorings too, and very unkept it is.. I’m sorry but I just can’t see how this can be a ‘waterfront’ development.  But see the difference as we pass through the next lock at Roxton..

Now that is nice!