Offgrid living on UK waterways
Not Sumerton this time, more up toward King’s Sutton. Close to Banbury.
Close to the M40 as well. Constant sound of the motorway here. Still, it looks nice. There’s not many boaters around, as like the title says, it’s in the fields.
It’s a nice stop. It makes a change being almost completely on your own. The solar panels like it here also and with the lack of hedges or trees make the whole day a charging day.
Continue reading “In the meadows”My time in Somerton Meadows finished. What a pretty place it is.
Whilst walking back to pick the car up on my first night. I took these photos.
I’ve not seen a glow-worm in the UK for years.
These were just under the railway bridge on the towpath close to Heyford. When you pick them up, they’re about the size of a wasp! They don’t sting like one though, they were fairly docile. I put him back on his leaf after having a quick look at him.
Just goes to show, not all the insects have died out…. Yet.
I stayed in Somerton for the full 2 weeks and left on Sunday.
I don’t think it rained once but the farmer did put the cows back in the field which meant we had the additional obstacle of cow-pats to negotiate. The bull was in there too. I only saw him once: when I was bringing my shopping and laundry back. I didn’t want to walk around the cows, which were all bunched up, so I shooed them out of the way. To my surprise, in the middle of the bunch as the cows moved out of the way, a big bull stood looking back at me!
He’s fairly docile specimen. I think he thought I was going to round him up using his nose ring, but I just continued forging through the cow heard with my heavy shopping bags back to the boat.
View’s down onto the floodplain.
It’s a nice spot.
Continue reading “Somerton and 9 hours in Aynho”
