{"id":2732,"date":"2019-06-15T20:49:32","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T19:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?p=2732"},"modified":"2019-06-15T20:49:32","modified_gmt":"2019-06-15T19:49:32","slug":"day-35-new-crew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toby200.net\/oliver\/?p=2732","title":{"rendered":"Day 35 – New Crew"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today we’re planning to take on new crew, in the form of my parents. Tomorrow Sarah will head back to Oxford for her supercharge drips – a whole week with the in-laws was clearly too much! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We’ll be on the Ribble Link on Monday, so this morning I checked the coolant and oil levels to make sure the engine is in good nick before we have to go out on the river. All looks good, phew!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We needed to get through one more lock and fill up with diesel and water, and empty the poo tank. It was really windy turning into the marina, and looked a bit hairy for a moment but we got in ok in the end. Talking of hairy, Sarah’s hair was looking rather windswept too!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Whilst we were in the marina filling up, we met Colin who has his boat there. Colin was on the River Avon last year, and found a camera that a certain person had left behind at a lock. After much palava, camera and owner were happily reunited<\/a>. What a coincidence to find him here, and just when Mum and Dad are joining us too! He’s also going on the Ribble Link to Lancaster, so we may meet again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having filled up, we then met up with my parents and had a lovely lunch on board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It’s Mum’s birthday today, so we also enjoyed some birthday cake, yum!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Suitable replenished, Sarah drove us in Zena (Mum and Dad’s campervan) to the nearby National Trust’s Rufford Old Hall<\/a>. We had a walk around the gardens where they have some topiary “squirrels”, and then the house itself. Of course, we also had to visit the tea room where I had a brownie and Dad had an Eccles cake – warmed and with butter melted on the top. Mum and Sarah enjoyed a pot of tea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n