Can You Keep a Secret?

Wednesday 4th July, 2012 in Great Bedwyn.
We were up at 6:00am and R caught the 6:44 train to go to Capture for the day. It was a cold, damp, drizzly morning. We have had no mobile signal at all on the boat while we have been here at Bedwyn. The only time we can get a signal is if we stand on the road bridge over the canal, and even then it's intermittent. (not that we are dependent on modern technology or anything!). However, standing on the bridge in the pouring rain to make a phone call was not an inviting prospect.

Simon and Irene left at 11:30 to drive home, leaving M to have a quiet day doing domestic tasks.
In the afternoon, M took the train to Goring to join R there as the Mikron Theatre was performing in Goring in the evening (usually in the open air next to the canal). They have toured the canals all summer for the last 40 years in their narrowboat nb "Tyseley," performing two different plays each year. This year's plays are "Losing the Plot" (about allotments) and the play that we saw in Goring, "Can you Keep a Secret" (about the rise and fall of the Luddite movement exactly 200 years ago this year).

Even though all four members of the cast were new this year, the production was well up to their customary brilliant standard. Fortunately they were able to stage the play under Goring bridge so that both them and the hundred or so members of the audience all stayed dry.
We left just as it ended in order to catch our train home and as we walked back to the station, we ran into Abbie and Dave out for some evening exercise, so they walked with us to the station. A super evening!
Today: Just 1.0 hour to charge the batteries.