Last
night there was a lovely sunset and the sky was just amazing, lots of colours,
purples, reds, quite spectacular.
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| Lovely Skies |
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| Spectacular Night Sky |
Another
hot sunny day forecast and it was already very warm as we left our mooring and
headed along the canal, under the bridge and moored up at the services. We filled up with water and got rid of yet
more rubbish, don't know where it all comes from, but we seem to have so much
of it all the time.
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| Heading off along the canal |
When
all that was done we headed off towards the locks, we are going to do two then
moor up.
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| Coming to the first lock |
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| Coming up the first lock |
We
got to the first lock and there was a boat in front of us and one coming down
so I went up and helped and when Kev had tied up the boat he came up as
well. There wasn't another boat coming
down so we had to empty the lock and then Kev brought the boat in. By this time two more boats had turned up
behind us. The lady on the boat behind
us made no attempt to come up to the lock to help but the lady on the boat
behind them did so that was okay. We
were soon through there and onto the next one.
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| Out of one lock and into the next |
I
had to empty this lock as well then Kev came in and I filled the lock. The lady on the second boat came up to the
lock and it turns out they have only just got their boat and I don't think she
really knew what to do so will let her off for not helping at the first lock!!
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| Coming to the Footbridge |
We
moored up not far from the lock in what we thought was a lovely sunny peaceful
spot. There was another boat there and not long after we got there, he started
up a generator, so much for peace and quiet, so we untied and went under the
footbridge and moored up there and yes it was a lovely sunny peaceful
spot. A couple of boats moored up during
the afternoon but didn't stay long, then we were all on our own with just the
noise of the birds and the odd passing boat, lovely.
We
are staying here for a couple of nights now then moving on with a few more
locks to do which will take us to Atherstone.
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| Moored at Bridge 47 |
We've had one or two instances of people not helping at locks. There was a single handed chap following us at Fradley and he tied his boat up then watched from below while John did all the work to get us through. If he'd come up and helped he'd have got through quicker, and John would have helped him get his boat through too.
ReplyDeleteAs for generators! Don't get me started. It seems to be just our bad luck that every time we moor up, all the boats around us start running their engnies! Yesterday evening the chap who started his up did come and apologise in advance so I let him off.