Another day at city hall

Tuesday 8th June 2021

Another day on the river. The sun is out and it’s promising to be hot. This is a distinct improvement on previous times on the Trent – see www.jannock.org.uk/2005.html it was cold and wet – and that’s out of the water.

Today, the engineering boat that can help fix the problem at Gunthorpe lock is busy being moved into position from Newark. With any luck the engineers will be able to fix it, at least they can identify what the problem is and we’ll be able to find out if we can continue our planned journey, or if Brenda will cry because she’s been looking forward to this trip for so long.

 

Whilst tied up, she has no excuses for not completing her physio exercise whilst Graham got chance to carry out some cosmetic repairs to Jannock’s damaged paintwork.

We wandered up to the local Coop supermarket for milk and ‘had’ to go into the Stratford Haven, a Castle Rock brewery pub next door. Much better than yesterdays watering hole (sic). Few people about so social distancing was easy. The staff were very knowledgeable about their beers and ciders.

The Coop (next door) was quite large, a proper supermarket even, and had a good selection of local bottled beers, even stocked clothes and had a post office counter as well. They also stocked both Chinese and Indian, heat it yourself, take-outs as well.

We checked out menus and decided on the Bombay Bridgeford restaurant. We had a lovely meal including an Indian spiced lamb shank and a Railway curry, an Anglo-Indian recipe from the days of the Raj. It was very filling. We then spent the rest of the evening, back on Jannock, chatting to the nb Jerome crew + plus dog ( Harley not Montmorency)

G&B