…. and fifteen hours later I removed the phone from its rice nest, stowed in a warm place on the boat, and all was well. The condensation had completely disappeared from behind the lens but it was also completely devoid of battery and had gone into ‘super power saving mode’. All I could do was emergency calls, so I thought water had corrupted the phone further in the interim – amazing how the mind can over react!
R kindly swept and mopped the deck inside whilst I went and stocked up on some groceries – Wolverton is well catered for with Asda, Lidl and Tesco but the High St itself looks a little tired and basic in its provision. With the enormous shopping precinct at Milton Keynes a stone’s throw away I suppose this is unsurprising.
Food stashed away, it’s always a challenge finding space for a full shop, we set off in tandem towards The Black Horse pub at Gt Linford. R enjoyed the experience of helming a very different boat to ours. Just it’s length is a challenge in itself as you go round tight corners, invariably with an angled and low arched bridge to contend with. You really have to work the tiller hard so it’s quite physically tiring. Fortunately we only had to travel for an hour, so it was a very pleasant trip with the sun shining and warm on our backs. I had to make sure I didn’t get too close behind R or I risked bumping his boat if it slowed to take an unforseen corner. All went to plan and by 3pm we were moored outside the pub and able to have a chilled evening including taking advantage of their ‘two cocktails for £12’ offer Mon – Thursday. The pub is extensive and the food looked great but supper was already cooking in the pot for us. I did suggest returning for a nightcap of two espresso martini’s but as I had infact consumed much of R’s negroni as well as my own (the two cocktails had to be the same) I decided this was not such a good idea and we settled for an evening of Netflix and an early night!
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