We are flying the Tassie flag as normal now. It always gets a few curious stares, being a bit different from the normal ensign flag.

We shared the first couple of locks with a lovely couple in a widebeam, it’s name summed up life on the water for them.

Then it was onto Staines, for a stop and shopping at the Sainsburys superstore. The next couple of reaches are well populated, so you are viewing everybody’s back garden, most of them immaculate.

There are also plenty of houseboats, or rather house barges about.

Then onto very familiar territory to me, Chertsey and Weybridge, where the River Wey joins the Thames.

We’ve carried on downstream a bit and dropped our pins in the original Desborough river course, rather than the cut. It’s a lovely sunny afternoon, we’ll stay the night and see what the next couple of days weather is like. We can then decide to carry on down the Thames to Hampton Court or retreat up the Wey to Pyrford and home.