Our nicely painted boat.
We are still at Wigram Turn Marina awaiting a service that should only take a couple of hours they say it is going to be done this week, but it would be nice to be given a date, or a day. It just beats me that in this country we put up with this customer service, but it the UK so we do, so we wait .....Unfortunately it not easy to go some where else as I have tried to ring other companies and they are reluctant to travel so we are tied at the moment.
Yesterday we visited the village of Southham a pretty village that dates back to 998Ad when it was a Royal Manor when Elthread the Unready granted it to the Earl Leafowine, it was believed to mint its own currency in the Medieval times as the locals found the currency that was used in the rest of the country to be too high and in the main street of the village stand a building now a pub that was the the Old Mint.
The Mint now a public house
Again this village has links to the civil war and claims by the locals that it was the the site of the first battle in that conflict, it also boast a few notable residents which include,
Steve Beeton , 1996 World Professional Darts Champion
Arthur Cox, who managed Newcastle United and Derby County football clubs between 1980 and 1993, was born at Southam in December 1939.
Trina Gulliver, nine times women's World Professional Darts Champion, who moved to Somerset in 2008
Steve Walwyn, guitarist with Dr. Feelgood, was born in Southam in 1956
Adam Woodyatt, EastEnders actor, had a home in Southam.
Just outside of Southam lies the home of Codemasters http://www.codemasters.com/uk/ The computer game developers of Grid and Dirt franchise.
We visited a few shops then returned to the boat, we then decided to pop over to Birmingham a 40 min drive away to see my sister Kathryn who also was looking after Josh her grandson, for coffee and a chat which was nice and pleasant afternoon, before returning back to the marina and our boat.
The Manor House now a pharmacy
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