Redbourn Museum Steam Day 2

Huge thanks to our friends from the St. Albans Model Engineering Society for their wonderful support for the event

Redbourn Museum Steam Day

As usual we had a great day with tremendous attendance figure, possibly helped by SWMBO's 'appearance' on local radio promoting the event

Tennis Season Begins...

 

Chemist's Joke

Cat Walking At Napton

We saw this lady approaching and thought it didn't look like a dog on the end of her lead...

Here he is sunning himself on our back deck

Cropredy 3

Cropredy village

Use your imagination...

Cropredy 2

Canalside at Cropredy

Cropredy

Just before Cropredy we passed this ingenious boat - "Toblerhome"

Moored at Cropredy

Pitt Rivers Museum - Oxford

Behind the natural history museum is the Pitt Rivers museum which is unbelievable. It's crammed full with bizarre collections from around the world. It's very difficult to negotiate round the display cabinets as they're so close together.

The museum is in line for a top museum award this year.

Natural History Museum - Oxford

Very nice old building with light and airy display galleries

Amazingly, this bear had a sign saying, "Please touch me"

Thrupp

Next day we moored at Thrupp and met SWMBO's uncle for lunch in The Jolly Boatman.

Would be nice to own one of these cottages but parking is a nightmare in summer.

Lower Heyford

Found a nice mooring at Lower Heyford and had a wander to the village

Narrowboat Stella's Travels

This time we're travelling from Wigrams Turn Marina near Daventry to Oxford (and back).

The South Oxford canal is very rural with lots of wildlife and pretty villages.

Boat entering Somerton Deep Lock

Our namesake: Stella, moored at Somerton Wharf

Cat People

Cat people will understand this: