A embarrassingly short day's cruising... even for us.

There spaces when we left Cropedy early this morning, when we arrived here there was only the end that we had squashed onto when we arrived a bit later in the day than we had hoped to have arrived.  

We left very early to secure a space on the water point.  It's in a rather User Unfriendly position for full sized boats.

I had rubbish to empty, of course I did, and this was the sight that greeted me.  Shocking.

Later I called the local office of CART to report the situation, I had to leave a message as answering the phone at CART could be an optional part of their roles, I said maybe you'd like to reply to this prior to me putting the photos up on social media.  That got a response.  

The Contractors are in dispute.  The first thing David said to me when he saw it was they'll never pick it up from the floor, so that might be part of it.  Lets hope the dispute is resolved to the satisfaction of all pretty quickly in this heat.

So this is the water point.  we are back as far as we can not to hinder traffic coming through the bridge, but this boat wanted to "Wind" or turn around and our nose is unavoidably stuck out in his way.

He was a highly skilled pilot and completed the manoeuvre successfully and no taps or tinks.

We as you can see the sun was shining and we were loving it.  We wanted to not arrive in Banbury today but to stop beforehand.  So after watering up, we had a forty minute cruise to the most lovely spot.  Now we have done short days before, but this is one on the shortest...  is it actually a cruise in your mind Reader?  Or a repositioning of the boat as hurtfully said by Boat Sharer David Lewis?

Still laughing about it as we tied up, we decided to go biking, 
We visited the two tiny villages of Great Bourton and then Little Bourton where I spotted these two little treasures, hours of loving care has gone into them by someone.  

The Bedford Dormobile, a 1970 is 48 years old, thats from the encyclopaedia that is David Lewis, didn't have the interior still in place but nevertheless a beauty and I do so love yellow cars.

I know nothing of the bike, if you do please do share your knowledge.

We had dwinks in the garden at the Brasnose Arms back in Cropedy, then went back to the boat to sit the sun and read.

To my mind the prettiest cottages in Cropedy.

Over exposed due to non stop sunshine.

Wonderful mooring.

Later we heard voices and then the boat was rocking like being on the ocean....

It was like being at the Olympics.

Look carefully and see one older gent who was coming the other way when the races started.

These "Races" went on for over an hour.  Its a sport here for young and old, boys and girls, men and women.  My only issue is you get yer hair wet, I would have to wear a shower hat.

Supper was a chicken Southern Pepper curry from the range by HERE  by Spice Tailor, I keep one or two of these in the cupboard as they taste divine and keep for months.