Market Harborough

Raining today (Saturday) and we are expecting Sue and Peter to come for the weekend. Sue and Peter arrive and after sorting out difficulties with overnight parking (thanks Mandy) the rain stopped and I went and reported to the lockeeper who said we could come down straight away but stop halfway. We started our descent of Foxton staircase locks. We had visited here on foot many times , but no brought a boat down. We got to halfway down and pulled over to let a hire boat full of youngsters who hadn't got a clue on what to do pass (thank goodness for the lockkeeper) . As we waited a lady came to report to the lockie and said she was Josephine. I immediately said no I was Josephine and we had a laugh and it turned out to be Josephine No 2, Mr and Mrs Watson (the new owners of Mo and Johnny's second Jojo!) We had a brief chat it turned out they were going to Market Harborough as well so we said we would meet up there.Thankfully there were not too many Gongoozerlers and we managed to come down the flight in just over an hour.

Someone let me out if this lock!

Does my bum look big in this?

It was quite windy in the basin at Union Wharf, Market Harborough but Andy managed to get Jojo turned and reversed onto a vacant jetty. We had previously rang and booked a place for the night, so that Jojo could go on mains electric and I could run the washing machine, joy of joys!
Low and behold after we had taken Sue and Peter into town to do some shopping we returned to see Josephine No2 moored next to us. It is a rare event to get the two boats together although we did sometimes bump into Mo and Johnny quite a lot when they owned her.



The two Jojo's at Union Wharf

Had a lovely evening with Sue and Peter and enjoyed Market Harborough, although the restaurants were very busy, quite a lively town. We ended up at Wetherspoons and then we got the last table, although food was good the place was very noisy. We came back to the boat for strawberries and cream, followed by some Madeira wine Sue and Peter had bought us to try after they had enjoyed the real thing on their recent holiday to Madiera.

Sue and Peter Key

Glenna and Tim Watson

Sunday morning we invited Mr and Mrs Watson onto Jojo No 1 to see inside as they were curious to see the difference between No1 and No2! Tim and Glenna were then returning to Crick mid week.
We untied Jojo and headed back to Foxton locks where Sue and Peter had left their car. Today the weather was much sunnier and warmer and thankfully not quite so much wind.

After a coffee and snack at the café at Foxton we bid them farewell and returned to the boat. We hope to go and see them in the winter and christen their new conservatory! Thanks for your company, hope Elgar was OK.