Somebody stole my birthday ... again

Yesterday .... many moons ago .... coronation day ....we had one of those brown 9" Bush tellys with magnifying panel on the front (electronics has remained magic to me ever since)   All the neighbours came to our house and they were glued to the unfolding ceremony... I spent the day behind the sofa drawing pictures on the plaster caste on my broke leg !!!!!!!!.......and playing with the model Coronation coach and horses which I have still got somewhere...... not in its box though Ha Ha, trust me to play with it....
Never much gone for birthdays ever since Ha Ha...... HOWEVER how fitting this year to have all the boats out for the river pagent ......Thank you whoever organised that....
Having another 'clean day' with cosy fire at home making list out for what to find and see at the show tomora at the Crick Boating Festival.


And I couldn't resist including a few stills from the telly of the quite fabulous spectacle, quite stunning ...... in parallel universe, WildRose would have been there ....

The fabulous bells "They make me deaf you know"    

 The fabulous horse

 The Royal Barge ... Phew ..... thank goodness WR isn't this big !!!!!! would take more than 2 at 5ltr tins of bitumen and 2 at 8ftx4ft sheets of ply for the floorboards !!!! ....

 Smashing to see the narrowboats ... I doubt if I will have the bottle to attempt a river when I get afloat, but here the Thames Barrier was up and so there was little current and they glided along delightfully decorated and so colourful..
Dudley represented by President from the Black Country Museum.


Even a 60footer I think would be too big for me to have tackled, so WR at 35ft is just perfec.

Beautiful Barges ... seen lots of these in Amsterdam, lived on and all so different...........

                                                    

Then at Crick I met with a very helpful Ian of Kinver Canopies and he will be measuring up WildRose for her new deck covers in the not too distant future ...whooopydoooo ..... 
In the meantime I had better tidy up the workshops and find everything ... again Ha