Can’t believe it’s the beginning of a new month and to be honest we didn’t do much out-of the ordinary. We’ve been in Leighton Buzzard at this mooring for two weeks and it’s time to move on before the lock ahead of us is closed for a couple of weeks. We also have agreed to meet up with James north of Milton Keynes to get some repairs done on the boat. I went shopping to stock up with enough provisions for the week ahead. Once we leave LB the towns ahead of us near to the canal are quite sparse. Good for isolation purposes! R was quite tired and dare I say a bit out of sorts but then I remembered he had had to take a few strong doses of antibiotics following his medical procedure, so he was likely to be feeling pretty ropey. I remember that antibiotics never agreed with his father so perhaps he’s following suit.
We enjoyed Zooming with some friends from home who encouraged me to elaborate on the reasons for my choice of daily bible verse, rather than just a one liner. I think the outcome will be periodic verses with a longer spiel so there may not be any for a few days whilst I process this idea. They were also really helpful in making us re-evaluate our trip and what we want from it and where we may go from here and how long might we continue travelling. It’s hard because although we are having an amazing time, we have not been able to do quite what we originally planned and I certainly don’t feel ready to go home – there’s so much more I would like to explore. R and I need to have a few extended discussions!
Our evening entertainment was a film called ‘Mank’ which was well written and interesting but quite a complicated plot, all loosely based around a true story of the making of the Oscar winning film Citizen Kane. It featured some well known Hollywood names such as William Hearst (newspaper magnet), Louis B Meyer, Orson Wells and the script writer Mankiewicz.
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