Monday 1st
April
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Off We Go |
We spent the Winter on the Shropshire Union canal and the
Staffs and Worcester canal, it was a very mild Winter with just a few days of
snow and frost no beast from the east this year! I worked in Bristol again over the Winter
months for a different firm this time but still stayed with my friend Davina
and I finished last week. We are now
heading off on our trip for the Summer although we won't be going too far in
the next three weeks as we have our friend's dog Smuggler staying and they will
be collecting him Easter week. We
enjoyed being on the narrows again over the Winter but now it’s time to head
off up the canals to pastures new.
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Coming to another bridge |
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Smugs enjoying the trip |
We have been moored at Brewood over the weekend and this
morning we set off along the canal in lovely sunshine. We are only chugging a few miles to Wheaton
Aston. Smuggler sits out the back with
Kev and keeps an eye on everything.
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In Wheaton Aston Lock |
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Out they go |
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Coming to the water point |
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What a lovely boy |
We chugged on along the canal, it’s a nice straight section
and quite wooded. We then came to
Wheaton Aston lock. It was empty so I
filled it up and in came Kev and Smugs with the boat. I opened the paddles and down they went. I opened the gates and out they went on along
the canal and stopped at the water point.
I shut the gates and walked down to the boat.
Once we had filled up the water tank, we moved into the
visitor moorings.
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View from the Bridge |
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Lovely Spring Blossom |
It was then time to take Smugs for a walk so we headed off
along the towpath and up past the lock and down to the next bridge and up on to
a footpath for a bit then we turned around and came back.
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Me and Smugs on our walk |
We then had lunch and just chilled out for a while then I
walked up to the Spar shop for a few things.
When I got back, Kev went out with Smugs again and the sun was still
shining.
We are staying here for a few days now as we need to go to
Stafford for shopping and we can get a bus from here, then we will move a
little further on and so our adventure begins again.
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Moored at Wheaton Aston |
Happy travels! Love from Cat and Ang
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