Daft race

Unfortunately our villages annual raft race was cancelled this year due to the height and speed of the river Trent. It's a day for village fun (and lots of drinking and income for the local pubs) so it left a hole.

A couple of landlords decided to replace it with the daft race along the Trent and Mersey canal (a whole lot of water around our village.

Daft it was with a small fleet consisting of a bouncy castle, inflatable sofa, inflatable football chair, a boogie board, a lilo and un-identifiable green inflatable (possibly a pub freebie). I just hope they'd all had their jabs because the water looked more than a little on the brown side

I had a lovely chat with a guy who lives on one of the narrow boats (he wasn't quite the random weirdo I thought he was when he first approached me) and could have stayed out in the sun all afternoon chatting and drinking, but busy pub + children + canal = stressed mummy