Friends Aboard NB Tacet: Napton & Present Swapping With Friends Back To Fenny

Friday morning and the weather was overcast but not raining so we had porridge for breakfast before going to the water point at the Junction of the Oxford and Grand Union Canal. after doing the necessary we turned right and headed along the oxford canal as we will be making our way back to Banbury for Christmas.
Our two son's Justin and Sam & sam's fiancee Rachel will be coming up Christmas Eve for a few days we are so very excited we can't wait to see them all again and have a wonderful christmas with them all.
We also have Roger & Anita coming to spend a night with us after Christmas it will be really good to see them as we last saw them in August, so we (roger & me) will have a few beers and the ladies will have whatever they want.

Braunston Junction

The cruise up to Napton was very pleasant and it's really lovely to be cruising this time of year as there are very few boats about in fact we only passed 2 other boats moving all day.
We moored between the bottom lock and the next lock up.

On Saturday we had Mike & Karel from N/B Jessy May visit us for lunch, Sharon had cooked a wonderful lamb casserole in the Wonderbag for us all and very nice it was to.
Mike & Karel have become good friends of ours since we first met them on the Llangollen Canal in May this year. We have had some wonderful times with them and their dogs. We also cruised with them for a while in August and early september.

Mike & Karel On Jessie May On Llangollen Canal

As usual the time went by so fast and after exchanging christmas gifts we said our goodbyes to them all knowing we will see them again in the early part of 2016.
We stayed put on Sunday and had a relaxing day doing not a lot.

Monday morning at 8.00 a single handed boat passed us and went up the locks, when we set off the first lock we came to the top gate was wide open and this was the same all the way up the flight consequently each pound was well down so a call to CRT to inform them was made and with in an hour they arrived and started to pump water down and one of the guys even prepared the last two locks at Marston Doles for us.

Marston Doles Lock.

We moored at Bridge 122 as we like this spot for the night.

Tuesday we woke to a very grey day but mild and set off to Fenny Compton which we plan to stay at till Thursday. We will use the laundrette at The Wharf Pub as we have some big blankets that won't fit in our washing machine.
We have decorated Tacet for Christmas we have two trees and some decorations up and it looks very festive we think.