Back in time and maybe a reason for the gap...?

My last post before the more recent late September musings was way back towards the end of April. In early May it was my mums 90th and she celebrated it in her care home, not in the way of previous celebrations sadly. It does play a lot on my mind and emotions my mums state of health. I guess certainly in my case projections into our own mortality and more critically later stages of life generate some fears and emotions. Maybe that's why I stopped blogging, wanting to be in the moment more or maybe not so keen to share the highs and maybe more lows than I was happy about? 

Anyhow I intend to catch up, and a lot will be off boat topics but its my thoughts and memories. My photos tell me just before my mums birthday I was on a 12 hour blood bike shift, the lovely BMW 1250 RT parked up in my chaotic garage.

I'll not post any pictures of my mum in her care home - here is one of her in her house she loved so much. She left one day on an errand and never saw the place again .... that is how fragile life can be.

A more boat related one. We picked up a short notice week on our Share boat NB Sylph ( photo is June 2005) so took Rachels Dad on it for a few days from Festival marina to Burton. Then swapped crew and my mum and her partner came back with us back to Festival park. The picture is mum steering the boat under the pipe bridge heading our of Alrewas. Ironically heading to Hunts lock where I was to live aboard on Percy for two years some 9 years later. 

I was working on a little DIY round patio project also early May. We had been on the look out for a used one for ages then while in a neighbours garden I spotted he had one stacked up he was happy to sell to us.

I was at the boat on the 8th May. Seems it was a grass cutting visit on the classic. I do recall a passing boater asking if he could take a photo of the bike and boat.