Hot, hot, hot at Cookham

A great mooring place in the intense heat we have been having.   As we were able to move back a bit after the first night, Petroc was mostly in the shade.  We spent most of our days sitting under the numerous trees on the shore. We did have to venture out but tried to restrict it to early morning or later in the afternoon.  Barney was not that keen on the heat so he and Geoff did the walk to the shop in the morning for the paper and any other essentials.  Cookham seems to be a lovely village full of pubs and speciality shops but if you take a slightly longer  walk towards the station there is a store.

We must have the only non swimming Labrador.....this is as deep as he will go!

On Thursday we had Anne & Keith to visit and they joined us in keeping out of the heat.  They did kindly take me to do a shop at a nearby Tescos which was necessary but could have done done without it in this weather.  I needed provisions as we were due to be joined by Giles and tribe for the run down to Windsor on Friday.  However events overtook us.  The forecast said Friday was going to be hotter than Thursday and then Giles household had a sad day as the vet had to come to put a much beloved Parga to his final sleep.

We also visited the Ferryman pub in the evening which is the closest to the moorings and the only one of the village pubs to have riverside seating.   It was still very warm outside so we elected to sit upstairs in the air conditioning.  A good meal so can recommend.

So we stayed put for Friday.   Forecast is for rain...Hooray!!!!   We did have a little apology for a thunderstorm later in the afternoon and some rain....but it didn't try very hard.

During the afternoon we had EA officials visiting the moorings handing out an information sheet on water levels etc.   They obviously had the big boss (4 stripes) with them as they were all very smartly dressed in uniform and obligatory life jackets.  We had a long chat with the deputy....only 2 stripes....

Onward to Windsor tomorrow