The Maltster's warehouse at Gloucester docks

We've had a fine day with my sister Rosie who drove up to see us this morning. She arrived in time for a strong coffee before we tucked into a varied salad lunch I'd prepared and then headed over to Gloucester.

The weather was intermittently drizzling and cloudy and sunny with none of the sequences lasting for long. We had a plan to go on a short boat trip leaving from the National Waterway Museum in Gloucester docks and heading south down the Gloucester – Sharpness canal.

I loved it, as I do most boat trips, with the sun by now shining strongly and the captain of the Queen Boadicea recounting a descriptive monologue about the docks, the canal and eventually the boat itself.  Apparently it was one of the heroes of the Dunkerque evacuation of Allied troops in 1940.

As we passed the old warehouses which still adorn the north bank of the canal he described some of there uses over the centuries. I was just pleased to be able to see and photograph them from this new and moving vantage point. The Malster's warehouse is sited beside the Bakers's Quay warehouse which was sadly burnt down last year, which I have featured before. I nearly blipped that ruin as an entry to the Derelict Sunday Challenge but I prefer to admire the Maltster's which hopefully will be fully and lovingly redeveloped rather than also being burnt down in an arson attack.

We wandered slowly home via a remote riverside pub at Epney on the banks of the River Severn, which was also delightful as we watched hordes of geese flying down from the meadows onto the sandbanks being inundated by the incoming tide