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Saturday, 21 July 2012


At last the river is open yet again for navigation and now we have to contend with moving debris that have collected with the high water and are now being released with the opening of the locks, some big stuff too.
4 metre log

There are now quite a few boats moving up stream for the Bedford River Festival this weekend, which is a massive bi-annual event and takes up the whole embankment, with stalls, fare ground rides and boating competitions.



 We do expect to see a lot more as the day goes on as I understand the festival is fully booked. At times over the last three weeks it looked likely that it would have to be cancelled but EA have managed to get the water levels down sufficiently for boats to navigate the last section and the infamous engineers bridge, (well done guys). During the last few days we have had many boaters riding down in their cars to inspect the river levels, all of whom have been planning to visit the festival and I have given them my mobile number, so that they can call to get an update on the level through Great Barford Bridge.

Good luck to the guys from the Bedford Boat Club who are in the competitions this weekend.

We have decided to stay here for a few more days as Karl (my son) and family are coming to see us tomorrow (Saturday), and as this is an easy spot for them to get to, it makes sense. Whilst here we have made some good friends from the village, Martin and Clare, who walk their dogs each day and we have been lucky enough to spend some time with them, taking Socks along to have some socialising with them.
Clare, Cindy, Martin and Jess

This morning Clare has taken Sally into town with her shopping in the car, which is very kind of her; also we are expecting a council tax bill, seeing as we have been here so long. We have also spent some time with another couple of boaters named Nick and Polly on NB, Thomas Ryan 2, who like us have had a scare or two travelling in the floods and are prepared to wait it out until the river slows down a little.
Thomas Ryan 2

Nick, I will get you Polly tomorrow


It’s ok going upstream pushing against the flow, but running with the current downstream is a bit more difficult on some of the sharp bends, so he is being sensibly cautious (there is no point taking risks when there isn’t any need to).

On a final note today; my niece Shona is taking part in the show jumping at the Royal Show at Stoneleigh, so we wish her good luck for the show and the future.

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