The Perfect Sunday-Ricky Festival,The Rex and Sunday lunch for dinner

To Rickmansworth for the festival. I'd never been before so was pleasantly surprised with the whole event-especially the number of boats of real character.....with some real characters on board as well

With Roy, who kindly drove, and his brother Joe we parked up within 100 feet of the White Bear so it seemed only polite to pop in for a pint. The White Bear which I used to visit in my youth is now Nepalese run and unlike many such ventures they seem to have kept the pub atmosphere whilst doing a good trade in food, both Nepalese and a Sunday roast

First up on the towpath were Natalie and Darron from Cowroast Chandlery who were doing a good deal on Fertan rust treatment so I had 20 quids worth .

Roy and Joe mingle with the crowds SAS style

There follows a photographic record of my afternoon including various boats,  tugs o' war** and a dish of paella. All most enjoyable.
** Involving some real tugs

Only a fiver! Excellent

That's inflation

Roy and Joe try to thumb a lift off Roger Allsop

Frederick Whittingham

Lining up for the first tug o' war

Enter Pacific

with as rough a crew as ever sailed into Rickmansworth

Looks like they've been boarded by Roy and Joe

Oh dear-there's gonna be a hanging!

Nice rope work Tom!

John Pattle , Pacific's owner looks focussed waiting for the off whilst son, Tom eyeballs the enemy

Pacific goes for it!

Heave!

but Russia wins the day

Returning to Berkhamsted it was a quick change, a drink with Pam's neighbour Pat and off to the wonderful Rex cinema to see Woman in Gold starring Helen Mirren. Sixty years after fleeing Vienna, Maria Altmann (Helen Mirren), an elderly Jewish woman, attempts to reclaim family possessions that were seized by the Nazis. Among them is a famous portrait of Maria's beloved Aunt Adele: Gustave Klimt's "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I."

An excellent film followed by an albeit late evening Sunday lunch in Gatsby's. Pam and I thoroughly enjoyed both the film and the meal and retired, very full and pleasantly knackered after the Perfect Sunday