We had already checked out the time of the main service at the parish church - 10:45 - so we were able to have a gentle start to the day. (we looked up St Dionysius before we went!) We walked down and were in good time. There are many interesting buildings along the main street which is quite wide - no doubt a legacy of the time when this was a busy market and through route.
It was a reasonably conventional communion service that made good use of many different people resources. The sermon was preached by a recently retired priest from Hinkley.
Afterwards we were introduced to a couple who have retired to a boat which they keep in the marina over winter - actually Mike had been told about them by another contact at a meeting a couple of weeks ago but had forgotten this morning until we started chatting over coffee.
We next went to the shops for a few items which we could not get last night although the antique an craft fair in the market hall turned out to be only antiques so Mike again failed to find small beads for the water level indicator. By now we had decided to stay here another night - it is pleasant enough and at least we were able to receive TV last night!
Back at the basin we were invited for pre-lunch drinks on First Fruits - which went on til almost mid afternoon! We were given a good guided tour of all the feature which they had designed into their boat - Christine was certainly envious of almost all of them!
By now it was a brilliantly sunny afternoon and we opted to sit, read, 'fiddle' with computer things - that is, not do very much and the time fled rapidly away! At least Mike found out why his attempt to play a video using the USB interface on the TV set did not work last time - a simple matter of file formats and he had happened to pick one that was not supported (properly). The next attempt was confounded by picking 2001 - Space Odyssey which happens to start with several minutes of blank screen, just music!
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