Visiting Wolverton took me back in time as it was probably our nearest town when we lived in Deanshanger. It seemed busy enough and I was intrigued to see a large queue of people, even in the rain, waiting patiently outside Tesco. It became evident however that the queue was not to go into Tesco – there was a small outside market selling bread, vegetables, teas and coffees etc, under Tesco’s covered walkway. It obviously has a loyal following, which is good to see.
Leaving Wolverton behind we deliberately went and moored up by a winding hole at bridge 77. A winding hole is where you can turn a narrowboat around. There is quite an art to doing this and I am very grateful that R knows what he is doing. All I have to do is follow instructions. Not that we want to turn around today but tomorrow is a different story.
Our great excitement today is meeting up with friends who we first got to know when I was expecting our first child, nearly 33 years ago. As they live relatively close to the canal they very kindly said they would collect us for the night (they are in a low risk area so allowed to do so), give us food and lodging, get a load of washing sorted (they even have a drying room so we didnt need a tumble dryer – i had images of all my socks shrinking!) and we could have as long a bath as we wanted! We had such a happy evening. Old friends can be like old slippers. You just continue on from where you last left off. Topped the evening off by watching ‘Yesterday’, which gave us some light hearted entertainment. We even had the luxury of an extra hour in an extremely comfy bed!
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