High Summer in Burgundy - water levels are low but it's a lovely place to be stranded!

Virgule Salon de Tea at the gates of the Chateau in Tanlay

Here we are back in Tanlay.  It looks overcast in the photo, but its very warm and there has been a drought, so we're not able to cruise easily on the canal with water levels so low. We had a bit of that last time we were here and it's no fun moving through pea soup!  We keep getting conflicting updates, and visits from VNF staff but of course no one knows what is going to happen, that depends on whether it rains a lot in the new few weeks.

Blinds in wheelhouse at last!

I have spent ages thinking of a design for blinds in the wheelhouse that look good, and that can be taken down/away easily in the cooler months.  This is the result. I made them with left over material and some scraps of old William Morris linen (previously covering a chair) that Martin, upholsterer in Chagford, gave me after a rummage in his fabric left over boxes.

Blinds down - oh dear there is someone else in the photo of my lovely blinds!