What a few days

 A few thing has happened in the last few days, first we went and bought a couple of more cupboards to use a storage in the bedroom, all was going well I made up the cupboards then went to mount them on the walls when the marine chippy came around and asked if I was having problems with my electrics, " no " I said then realised that none of our sockets were working and my trip switch on the main electric board kept going off, after trying different sockets on the pontoon and then changing the marina  electric fuses I then thought that I check where the cables were going on the boat, Yes you guessed it I had drilled through a cable whilst putting up brackets for the cupboards so took out the screw from the cable and lucky the electric came back on the night.

Next morning a trip to B&Q again to buy bits to repair the cable which I did after digging a big hole in the wall to find the cable , so cable repaired and wall cupboards all hung.

Saturday morning we decided to take the boat for a spin so we took a trip to Tewkesbury which was very pleasant 

 

Whilst on the River. Severn we went under part of the M50 , when ever we have driven over this we always are on the lookouts for Narrow boats which are either going up or down the river, so now we can say we have gone under this bridge 

Part of the bridge that not many people see the underneath.

We carried on to Tewkesbury where we moored up just outside of the lock which is the entrance for the River Avon , we spoke the lock keeper and he could remember for the family our first boat which we all hired the Gay Goblin , which for obviously PC reasons has been changed to just the Goblin.

We then had a shandy and a turkey baguette in " The Hop Pole " which has now been turned into a wetherspoons  pub .

This poor boat didn't moor up very well.

We then returned back to "Essendee " and proceeded to return to Upton on Severn, half way up we came across a narrowboat "Bumble Bee"which had broken down so we offered to tow them back to the marina we started to tie them up to our boat but then a rescue boat came to there assistance so we left them and returned to our mooring.

In the evening we went and had a few beers in Upton and listened to a very good Ac/Dc tribute band and the returned to Essendee and bed .