Saturday 1st June
Today we went off to Nuneaton on the bus and looking back in my boat log I discovered that the fare was 50p less today than it was when we went on 27th March this year! £5-50 as opposed to £6, go figure! Maybe it was because it was Saturday, I don’t know.
Anyway, it was all happening in Nuneaton today. There was the substantial market of course as there always is on a Saturday but there was a German Oompah band in the High St, an electronic set up in the shopping Mall, playing Knock Three Times by Dawn and a bloke playing Adele songs on a steel drum further down!
There were loads of people about and it was quite hard to get up and down the streets. We were going to go in The Tool Box (the really cramped hardware store) but it was rammed and we couldn’t even get in the door! We got a couple of really good pieces of haddock from the same fish stall we visited last time and 2 punnets of strawberries for £3. Then we went to Wilko’s for some sand paper, oh and I got a new washing machine ………… yes, it’s called two £1 buckets and a pair of rubber gloves!
After recovering in The Sir Felix Holt we went to Argos and bought a fire blanket, which is a requirement for our boat to pass the BSC and for some reason we haven’t got one. Then we went to Asda to get the necessary for a nice meal tomorrow night, steak, scampi, chips, peas and cream for the strawberries before returning to the boat.
Sunday 2nd June
Today is our 14th wedding anniversary and this year we have actually remembered it, hurrah! We have celebrated by doing some jobs on the boat getting ready for the BSC next week, we know how to live!
Ken checked the batteries (not for the BSC obviously) then put up the newly acquired fire blanket. I attached the, also recently acquired, labels for the gas isolation valve and the diesel filler. We also unpacked our new diesel siphon pump and had a play with that. God the excitement we have is just unbelievable!
A trip to the shop and then The Greyhound followed all this. The gongoozling and people watching opportunities were many fold with it being quite busy both at the pub and on the canal today.
This evening we have enjoyed the first course of our anniversary meal and nearly all the wine and I am now going off to do the strawberries. We have decided not to go to Coventry by boat but may go on the bus at some point this week. Tomorrow we are moving down to get water and do the loo and rubbish then we may go to Bedworth.
