30th August 2008

This reminded me of the three Vultures in Disney's version of The Jungle Book

Well it's been a week since we have written on the blog. It is now Saturday and we are in Fox Narrowboats marina, which is just outside March. We have been to the town and today we are going to find St Wendreda's Church which is a 14th Century church famous for it's hammerbeam roof which is decorated with four tiers of 118 angels with outstretched wings. Hopfully will be able to get some photos.

Thought we could get one of these, tow it behind us and call it "The Dog-house"

We have had an uneventful week and it has been good to travel back over previously visited territory. It gives us a much better idea of distances and suitable places to moor - mostly different to our outward journey.

The church at Outwell stuated on a very severe bend with a bridge which Christine navigated very well

We had a bit of a job going through Salter's Lode Lock. We were on the ebb of the tide and there was a brisk wind blowing. I wanted to try but managed to get the boat in completely the wrong position, so Tom had a bit of a disadvantage by taking over at the last minute. It is a really acute turn to get in and I wish we could do it all over again as I feel I would make a better job of it. (I don't think Tom shares my confidence).



Getting readyto set off for the tidal passage between Denver Sluice and Salters Lode

After Salter's Lode we moored up at one of the Well Creek Trust moorings about a mile outside of Outwell. Tom wanted to clean the boat and I walked into the village to get a paper etc. When I got back the boat was gleaming. However later that day, two combine harvesters mowed the field opposite, completely covering the boat inside and out with a fine layer of brown dust. We stayed on the mooring another day to clean up the aftermath.

And to think we were moaning about a bit of dust!!

We have been here two days, and in that time have had our batteries checked yet again, and have replaced four which hopefully will cure our lack of power problem. We plan to move on tomorrow but the weather forecast is terrible so could mean an extra night.
We have got plenty of time to get to Peterborough for Friday. I spent a lot of time yesterday on the laptop, especially as we are hooked up to electricity. We have now got our flights booked to Tenerife for 7th October - you can guarantee that we will have an scorching October now.