Mooring in remote places in the middle of nowhere for the last few days on the lovely Oxford canal. I think this is still my favourite canal, lots of congenial places to moor in the countryside with wide towpaths so Barney and I can sit out and watch the world go by. Geoff is not an outside sitter!!!!!
So to Lower Heyford, our intended destination for Geoff together with Barney to have a quiet time with no nagging wife ask him to do things, whilst I swan off to Turkey with Emma and family for a week in a villa in the sun...….Geoff was invited but declined...…...
There are still things that need doing, such as pumping out the bilges......we are not leaning to post nearly as much as Geoff has pumped out several buckets but we think there is more to go.....
I am still trying to work my way through cleaning all the blinds from the grime accumulated over winter. Never ever but narrow blinds, they are the devil to clean.....
We were lucky on reaching Lower Heyford as the water point was empty, so we spent a good hour there filling up...such a slow tap! Even luckier as our preferred spot just beyond all the permanent moorings had a Petroc size space. So we are comfortably moored for the next 14 days.
There are downsides as the phone signal is almost non existent and the Internet signal almost as bad. It just seems to come through at certain times of day and you have to be quick to catch it!
The train station is just alongside and there are buses to Banbury, Kidlington and Oxford so not a bad spot to repose for a while.
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