The last time we had seen them all together was in Dessau over two years ago.
We decided to cruise to Dunhampstead and eat at the Fir Tree.
The weather was awful before we set off, but it came out lovely in the afternoon and the photo above shows us moored up for lunch.
Alan had a go at steering.
And Aiden was a superb skipper doing loads of jobs.
Everybody helped with the locks and a thoroughly good time was had by all.
We have (yet again) had to dig deep in our pockets for the benefit of our creature comforts.
We decided to get a new cooker. More importantly we decided to get it fitted by a gas safe engineer. All ok so far. But to fit the cooker he had to condemn our Paloma water heater. It drew the air from inside the bathroom rather than outside the boat which is no longer acceptable.
We thought it was on its way out anyway and as soon as it went wrong anybody trying to fix it would have to similarly condemn it so a new water heater was purchased too.
Here is our new double flue chimney.
It only took us three hours to learn how to take the chimney off for the low bridges and refix it. That's five minutes to take off and two hours fifty five minutes to put back!
Anyway, we mastered it we think!
Just as we were setting off for home we then found the floor inside the saloon at the stern has gone rotten aghhhhhh! More on this when I have calmed down.
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