The Waterways Wanderings of Narrowboat “Just Heaven”
A walk along the river in the morning and a bit of shopping in Homebase for some things for the boat and then back to Tibberton.
Tres & Lins left for home, we stayed on board as we wanted to visit Kidderminster in the morning to look at a potential new mooring.
The day was cold & windy. We set off down the Tibberton locks. This was the first time we had done locks with JH!
Not long after we had started off it began to rain, so by the time we got to Worcester we were wet & cold.
Whilst Lins & I topped up the water and did a pump out(free, with cards we found on board) the girls cooked breakfast.
We moved on to moor by the Commandery and then spent the afternoon shopping in the city centre.
On the way back from shopping there was a sudden hail storm with huge hail stones.
Daughter Nikki & son-in-law Paul came to see us. We reversed back to the winding hole and turned so that the other side was against the towpath. An hour or so with the wet & dry and a few minutes with the paint roller and both sides were now ‘nameless’.
She still had the name ‘Leah’ on the side and the previous owners name. We were keen to remove this as soon as we could, but a little nervous in case we made a mess of it.
Friends Jan & Mike drove up to see us and while Mike and I went back to Hanbury to get the car Heddi & Jan attacked the lettering with wet & dry paper. By the time we had returned they had almost done one side.
We put a coat of primer over the whole panel and she was ‘Leah’ no more (on one side anyway!)
The other side would have to wait until the next weekend.
It was a cold frosty morning when we awoke. The plan was to move JH the 5 miles or so down the canal to Tibberton. That had been her permanent mooring. I had previously spoken to someone at BW who said that we couldn’t transfer the mooring, but we could stay there for month or so until we had sorted something else.
Not knowing how much deisel there was in the tank we stopped at Brookline Cruisers to top up. The guy there seemed not to want to serve us. You’d think that he’d be glad of business at this time of the year.
We got to Tibberton and found our mooring, the last of the line, furthest away from the pub!
Spent the rest of the day unpacking all the stuff and investigating the boat further.
We loaded up the car with all the stuff we had bought and headed up the M5.
It was dark when we arrived at Hanbury Wharf, so unloading from the pub car park was a bit tricky. We didnt know if there was any water in the tank so I pushed her over to the other side of the canal where there was a tap for the resident moorers. We topped up the water and pushed her back.
I ran the engine for a while to charge the batteries, we had a meal and went to bed in our own boat!