Sunny Shepperton

We have added some more furniture to our boat, an oak stool which we will use as an occasional table and two oak trays, both from Habitat.

We are now moored up at Shepperton, but boy does this hot weather bring out the noisy rabble, we are surrounded my fifth or sixth formers who are totally oblivious to any boaters that may be around them, they communicate by shouting at the top of the voices in what appears to be an earlier civilisations entry into language. We had two groups last night at Kingston, one male and the other female separated by about 200 metres and shouting drunkenly at each other about who knows what, and this was at 3am. Fortunately they were on the other side of the river.

We came back up the river and straight though Walton as we felt that we could not in all fairness moor up there after having stayed there only a couple of days earlier. For Pink Floyd fans everywhere we think that this house boat belongs to Dave Gilmour.

Houseboat

I have to say that anyone either blogging or reading blogs in this weather deserves a medal or maybe having their head examining.

Today we did 8.97 miles and 2 Locks

Statistics so far:-

577.75 Miles, 466 Locks, 47 Swing Bidges, 27 Lift Bridges, 6 Tunnels.