A walk to the dressed well and fete at Holywell and then from The Waits to the GOBA Hemingford mooring aboard The Lady on a hot and sunny day *!!!*
*!!!* A good walk and shop around St Ives as I secure a good fresh water pipe (hose) and fitting to use riverside taps. Use it for the first time and it works fine at The Waits Quay. An outboard motor trip in the dinghy to L.H.Jones Boatyard to look at water fillings. Then with the family to St Ivo Pool and a swim. Then a long walk across field and ditches by an old footpath to Holywell.
The Well-dressing has just taken place and it looked beautiful with flower petals and small leaves used to create a spectacular montage of colour. On to Holywell Fete, many games and a cream Strawberry tea which was delicious. Back to the boat, stopping only for insect-bite cream (for the return journey alongside a potent brook) and fish and chips to eat when we arrived. We stow the dinghy on the davits, haul the sliding roof back and enjoy a cruise through Hemingford Lock to the Hemingford’s. The afternoon has turned hot and sunny and we moor at the GOBA moorings and, having put the kids to bed, Diana and I stroll through Hemingford Abbots and Hemingford Grey. It is the flower festival at H.A. and the village is full of directive signs. So many beautiful houses and gardens and one is supposed to be the oldest continuously-occupied inhabited dwelling house in England. Back to the ‘Mother Ship’ and after the news (where India has beaten The West Indies in the cricket final and nothing else happened) then to my bunk. This day, I bought a ‘Crook’ for walking and we saw the view from the Holywell Church Tower.
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