Turned the boat around north of Godstow bridge in order to start the journey home. We arrived at Osney Lock in Oxford to find boats all over the place. I had to avoid a reversing trip-boat who was escaping the melee - he informed us the lock was broken and would be out of commission for several hours. A phone call from Claire at this point told me that she and her brother were on their way to join us.
We waited for them at the East Street wharf and then had to try and direct the two of them to us when neither we nor they had a map! Anyway I spotted Claires car driving by while I was on the phone to them and they managed to get parked in a side street. We had a lovely couple of hours chatting, then took them through the now functioning Osney Lock, to drop them on the other side and make their way back to the car and home. We went a little further before mooring up for the night.
These are the voyages of Ken, Annie and dog Peggy. As we cruise we will try and keep the blog up-to-date - internet access permitting of course. Ceilidh is a 54ft cruiser style narrowboat. It was built by J Pinder Ltd for Black Prince hire boats in 1995.
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