A couple of days at Stoke Pound (Worcester & Birmingham Canal)

Monday 24^th and Tuesday 25^th April

Monday - We are off to do some food shopping today so we left Smuggler in the boat and walked to Morrisons and Aldi.  It is about a 20 minute walk from the canal so not too bad.

Our lovely pizzas

Our Gins!

I had a bit of an altercation in Morrisons as we bought some peppers which were priced up at one price but when we got to the till we were charged a higher price.  We went to customer service and told them and the chap came to the peppers to have a look and said they were priced correctly as there were two boxes of peppers the top box was the cheaper peppers and the bottom box was the dearer peppers, but obviously they had run out of the cheaper peppers and put a box of the dearer peppers there so people including us were being duped into thinking they were getting the cheaper ones when in fact they were paying the higher price so I told this chap that he was duping people but he wouldn’t have it.  I said to him that if they had no cheaper peppers they should take the sign down and he said Head Office wouldn’t allow that or I said that they should leave that space empty and he again said oh no we can’t do that Head Office wouldn’t allow that!  Aweful makes me so cross and he knew I was!

Gin menu

Inside the Queens Head pub

But we did get our money back and he gave us the peppers as well so I suppose that is something, I expect I am on their blacklist now!

We then went back to the boat, got Smuggler and went to the Queens Head pub for lunch.  In the week they do 2-4-1 pizzas and they are really good so we had them with the salad bar.

The Queens Head pub

They also had a gin menu so we tried a couple on there as there were some that we had not tried before and they serve them with lemonade and different garnishes so really nice.

We then just chilled out for the rest of the day. 

Tuesday – We are staying here again today.  The weather has turned cold and we are running low on coal so we walked back up to Morrisons and Aldi but they didn’t have any, so we walked to Home Base and luckily they had a bag so we popped it on the sack truck and wheeled it back to the boat.

Smugs enjoying the morning sun

It was a lovely sunny morning but it turned really wintry early afternoon and we had rain, sleet and hail, but only for a short period and then the sun came out again.  We are chilling out here for the rest of the day then an early start tomorrow as up Tardebigge we go!