Two weeks or not two weeks. That is the question – Day 7

Here we are, last Wednesday in June, prime mooring on the course, position A immediately opposite Remenham Club, on the first day of Henley Royal Regatta. What could be better? Nothing other than the fact there is no regatta. Thanks to Covid it’s been postponed until August by which time I will have been ejected from this mooring. Still I shall savour the atmosphere while I can. There are plenty of rowers about to pretend and if I make myself up a glass of Pimms……..

Can’t write a blog without mentioning the football. I have to admit to not watching it because POS wanted to watch Federer and she owns the remote control on this ship. Like everything else come to think of it. anyway I gather we won. Looks like Saturday night will be a good time to avoid public houses and the like. Think we’ll moor in a field somewhere, far from the madding crowd. Although it appears that after beating Germany, England’s name is engraved on the trophy. Many a slip ‘twixt cup and lip.

I have to say we both enjoy watching tennis and so far Wimbledon and other tournaments have delivered some exciting matches. We enjoy the nail-biting experience of following our Brit Andy Murray, until he loses and where he reverts back to being a ‘sweaty’. (If you don’t know a sweaty look it up in Google under a cockney-rhyming slang

On a boating subject, the EA do come up with some real corkers. The latest one would be unbelievable if it weren’t true. They have removed all the big fire-hose type hoses at the water points and replaced with back pressured taps to which you have to attach your own hose. They recommend a7ft hose. Unless you happens to own a 7ft long narrowboat every narrowboat has a hose at least as long as the boat. So my hose is 60ft plus. And because the back pressure doesn’t work properly with a long hose, most of the water goes everywhere except down the hose. And the modern expanding type don’t really work at all. As a result what used to take maybe 5-10 minutes now takes an hour. The river is not that busy at the moment but come July there are going to be some very very irate boaters. We’ve taken to stopping at any water point where there is a maximum of one boat waiting and topping up. I can see a situation later in the summer when filling up with water could take a whole morning. Ridiculous.

There’s more water coming out the pressure equalising valve than is going down the hose

Tomorrow is Teddy Two Tanks Day. Filling one and emptying another. No prizes for guessing for what’s involved. It’s a shitty job but somebody has to do it!