Expecting guests for the return to Paddington this morning, we set about cleaning up after the night before, only to find the toilet blocked. The macerator pump was jammed. This is generally expected if some prohibited material has been dropped in, but nothing for it but to remove the toilet and dismantle the pump until the offending material can be removed. This is a messy job. First the toilet bowl has to be emptied for which purpose I managed to find a short length of tubing to act as a syphon, and No! I didn't suck on it. The stack of "dog towels" usually reserved for wet dogs came in very handy and the offending material was a ball of toilet paper. Clearly there must be suitable paper and unsuitable paper for electric macerator toilets. More research required!
The trip back went very smoothly. The weather was fine, Camden was as usual heaving with bodies and gongoozlers and once again I found the last vacant mooring at Paddington. Here we properly met up with our fellow Braidbar boat "Sanity". The guests left and I enjoyed some hospitality aboard Sanity before retiring to make the single handed journey back to Harefield tomorrow.
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