Yesterday we spent the morning completing more domestic chores (slowly!) and had lunch early. Christine wanted to go to M & S in Banbury and Mike to B & Q. The first was because a couple of days ago we discovered that one of our bottom sheets had come to the end of its usable life and urgently needed replacing. The latter was to find some better screws to fix the rear door furniture and to avoid the problems of last week recurring. The early lunch was so that there would be enough daylight to allow Mike to use the screws as planned - which he did.
Today we spent most of the morning transferring 'stuff' to the car (we did have rather a lot in the fridge despite last night being a 'use up' meal). First, Mike did the task that he too often forgets - cleaning out the drains around the rear deck board. There have been a lot of leaves around in the past few days. If the channels and the drain holes become blocked then the engine room can quite quickly become inundated.
We were eventually ready to leave by 11:30 but when we set up the satnav, it immediately warned us that it was selecting a route to avoid delays followi8ng an accident on the A34. It took us through Chipping Norton and Lechlade etc etc to come onto the A419 around Swindon by the former Honda factory. Apart from a couple of road works in Banbury and the consequent tailbacks, we had a straightforward run. The grey and misty weather meant that there was little worth looking at despite being in delightful Cotswold countryside. We reach home just after 2 pm and settled back into land-based winter life style and schedules.
We may have a couple of nights at the marina in a few weeks time as a stopover en route to Rugby for an all-day meeting. By then the boat should have had its annual checkover by RCR.
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