BRIDGE FOURTEEN

I have a dream mooring here at Bridge 14 where overhead a bus runs to Nuneaton twice an hour.  If I go only to Attleborough on that bus I have a 20min turnaround with an excellent Co-op.  I have two shirts in for embroidering to enhance my onboard image when my plan gets launched and I have complimented my wardrobe from Nuneaton charity shops.   

Today (Tues) I planned to have sausage egg and chips but ended up having a boiled egg for breakfast, a "small-chip-open" for lunch and a sausage roll for afters and another for after.  My stomach was satisfied it had had sausage egg and chips.  For dessert I had handpicked plums and blackberries from the bus stops.  There are two trees by one bus stop with luscious bullace type plums and the other bus stop  juicy fat blackberries.  At either stop you pick your own. The plum trees grow in the grounds of a social stratum which knows how to negotiate mortgages and the social welfare system and lease everything from air-conditioning via prestige cars to cable tv. 

Since I am going to the airshow on the morrow I wanted to ensure the larder was ba re, not buying in any food to go bad in this swelter.  When the heat was gone out of the day I went to Attleborough Co-op and got bananas at 5p each,  a bread stick for 10p and a bottle of Ginger Ale for £1.30.  Talk about all costs and no cost at all

In other news the gas went out just as my afternoon coffee was coming to boil.  Suspecting the bottle was empty I changed over and then had a look back through the logs to find the bottle may have been running since May 2023.  I don't keep tight records but have a history of gas bottles lasting a year so no surprises.  After changing over, I tested the nozzle pressure of the 'empty' to find it high so I will have a look further when I get back.  The most important thing is to always have gas spare.  Never leave an empty empty.  Trade for full ASAP. 

 I have been to and from the airshow, moved the boat to Atherstone to facilitate the acquisition of four new Varta Duals two for Pentargon and two for Wavy. They are bought online for delivery to an adjacent click and collect depot and a man with a van trollies them to the boat for £20. All agreed. The batteries are now ordered but delivery is delayed til the w/e as they only have ONE actually in stock.  I decided to take the train to meet Diane in Cambridge Tue 30th with option on breaking the return journey at Peterborough.  Tomorrow is to be a heat wave day.