Rain stopped play!

Monday 11th June, 2012
Did we wake up to hear the birds singing merrily?  Hardly! We awoke to the sound of the rain hammering on the roof. This was the rain of the "stair-rods" variety, ie: vertical and unrelenting. The only consolation was that it was not the horizontal sort accompanied by high winds; however it did persist all day.
We always said that if it poured with rain, we would just moor up and pour ourselves a G&T. So, we decided that we would not move from our very pleasant and quiet mooring today.  There was, however, one slight problem - we discovered that we are quite out of 'T'. 'G' we have, but no 'T', so we have had a quiet and very sober day.
Our meeting with Peter and Nicole, which was scheduled for this afternoon, has been postponed until tomorrow when the forecast is for dry weather, so hopefully we will be able to take them out for a short trip.
This afternoon, we watched "Miss Potter", which is such a touching film although such a shame that it wasn't actually filmed at the appropriate locations in the Lake District (one does wonder if that was due to the National Trust being its usual, wonderfully co-operative self?).
As we finished watching the film, we heard a tapping on the side of the boat and found that our wine loving swan had brought his mate along, plus their seven offspring.

As it is probably frowned upon to encourage the use of alcohol within the avian community, we fed them bread instead of wine, but they seemed quite pleased with that. The youngsters in particular looked like they were having a "bad hair day" with all the rain. M said she knew that feeling.....
Today: 0 miles and 0 locks 3.0 hours charging the batteries.