Karen’s birthday 2 May and she was 50. She decided not to make too much of it and has arranged to meet family when we are in Yorkshire in July. Howver mooring up lunchtime she was wearing her “I am 50” badges, the two boats we’d just come up the locks with suggested dinner in the evening, so we had the beginings of a party. Later in the afternoon a boat that had just come through the tunnel moored up behind us, they soon also got invited (could be the balloon with 50 today on it). As expected boaters will take any opportunity as a chance to get to together and have a dribnk even meeting someone they have never met before on the towpath who is ahving a birthday. After some chatting we also start to discover that we have close connections already, the canal is a small world.
So dinner at the Wagon was enjoyed, by our party of 8 as we celebrated Karen’s birthday and the rest of the pub watched Man U lose 3 – 0.