Monday 20th June, 2016 in Yelvertoft Marina.
Today, we returned to MM. We left Reigate in the pouring rain - and arrived at Yelvertoft in lovely sunshine. The journey took some time - one bus, three trains and a taxi - but eventually we arrived at about 3.30pm. Across the marina is the blue narrowboat "La Tortuga", owned by our friends Sua and Andrew.
M, who had been fretting that the geraniums in the bow would have dried out in our absence, declared that the weather gods had obviously been kind and rained on them. When we left, they were without any blooms at all but now they have burst into bloom and look lovely. Thank goodness, said M.
It was wonderful to be back on board. We had a lovely time in the Lakes looking after Christine but we did miss MM.
Yelvertoft Marina's publicity "blurb" proclaims it to be a "Rural Idyll". It certainly is blissfully quiet, peaceful and remote. M admired the poppies and the yellow flag iris in bloom.
We enjoyed a gentle afternoon catching up with little domestic chores. R fitted a new lockable fuel cap to deter diesel thieves (twice in the past we have had quantities of diesel syphoned off from MM over the winter).
It was a beautiful evening, beginning with a lovely sunset.
As we were about to go to bed, we saw the moon peeking over the hill behind MM's mooring. We rushed to photograph it but, perversely, just as we walked up the hill, it disapeared behind cloud, never to re-appear. A shame, because this was no ordinary full moon but a so called "Strawberry Moon" - a Full Moon on Mid-Summer's Day - that only occurs every 70 years or so, the last occasion being 1967. It is apparently named "Strawberry" because it marked the beginning of the strawberry season!
We both slept well, occasionally peeping through the bedroom curtains hoping for a glimpse of the moon - but in vain.
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