Testing the depth of the river

David and Mary joined us on Jubilee today to stay for the festival. This is one of the few IWA festivals they have attended without Kew. David being David, he dived straight in.

As he demonstrated, the River Great Ouse is not very deep here, even in the middle of the channel.

A vehicle familiar to me from my work days, a satellite truck, appeared on site near our boat in the afternoon. There was to be a live transmission as part of Look East. I didn't know the reporter, who had joined after I left, but it was good to see Steve Hubbard, the cameraman, again. There were two interviews as part of the live: one with someone from the IWA and the second with Alison Smedley. Alison talked about their historic boat Sandbach, but from inside a modern boat. Unfortunately no pictures of Sandbach were floated over the interview, so viewers would have been given a bit of a wrong impression. Oh well. It was three minutes of publicity for the IWA and St Neots Festival of Water.

In the evening we took part in the traditional quiz, compered as always by Martin Ludgate.

We came third equal out of about 20 teams, not a bad result.