Weekend

Mike, as planned, went down to Limehouse in London for his conference of Diocesan Lay Chairs. The journey was very efficient despite the closure of the Dockland Light Railway which meant that he had to catch a c2c overground train from Fenchurch Street instead.

Christine collected the car and returned to Leighton Buzzard, grateful that she had taken her iPad with her to help find her route when the road signs let her down!

Back at the boat she found to her horror that our boat was adrift across the canal - probably as the result of a boat passing by too fast. We certainly saw several doing this over the weekend, despite being so close to a sharp bend under a bridge! It had been properly moored when Mike checked before leaving.

However, she was able to recruit a walker on the towpath to assist with retrieving the boat and she nailed it down firmly with an additional pin to secure the centre rope.

It was some relief that she had a phone call to say that the laptop was ready for collection (promo for Andy at Leighton Computer Services is proper here!)  and she set of to pick it up. Before being allowed to take it away she was invited to see pictures of his house in Istria which is clearly a proud possession.

On Sunday morning, Christine drove up to central Milton Keynes to attend the main morning service at the church of Christ the Cornerstone - which had been our home for the 1980's. she was pleased to be made very welcome and met with several people we remebered from those many years ago. It was great to feel that the church was so lively and welcoming, a credit to all those who worked so hard to set it up in the first place and, more especially, to develop it over the years since then.

Mike returned from London more swiftly than expected but that at least gave some time to catch up on these blogs