When I'm pootling about over winter and moving every couple of weeks, it is difficult to say definitively when I have started the new season's travels. However, this week there have been two significant things which enable me to say that I have started out: the first is that we are now into British Summer Time so it's not getting dark until 8pm and the second is that I've been through my first locks of 2014 and I am pointing South. Blisworth tunnel was very wet this time through, the wettest that I've ever seen it. This weekend the hire boats were out in force including one party that had megaphones to communicate with each other. I needed to replace the glass in my stove which had broken over the winter and I was also going to replace my bow and stern fenders but they are quite heavy and I think I will need some help with those.
Back home I did a little bit of gardening in the hope that I can make an impression before it has it's major growth spurt. I was very pleased to see that I have got newts back in the pond and there were also butterflies and bumble bees in evidence so back to where I started: it is Summer Time :-).
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