A later start today as it’s only about 5 hours back ‘home’. We shared Bevere lock with a liveaboard couple who were heading for Stourport. As we neared the first Hawford lock we could see a boat in there, so we shared with him, a single hander. But he wanted to go alone, so we
As soon as the bridge keepers came on duty we chugged up to Llanthony pontoon to do a pumpout. We then had to wait until 9:15 for Llanthony bridge, but we were soon in the lock and off up the river. It wasn’t good weatherwise. Not raining but cold and windy all the way. A
Teresa and Brian picked us up from home and drove to Purton. We unloaded the stuff, Brian took their car to the car park and we picked him up on the was past. Then a gentle chug up to Hempstead. We had intended to moor up for the night between Sims bridge and Netheridge bridge,
We have been here for the last four days. Josh and Ivy came on Friday and stayed til Sunday. Unfortunately the weather hasn’t been brilliant, but it was OK enough for us to take a short trip down to Sharpness. A walk in the sunshine provided the opportunity to throw stones into the water at
Teresa and Brian joined us for breakfast in the ‘Black Shed’. This was my birthday present from them. Heddi drove to Oldbury for her choir practice in the afternoon and I did a few tidying jobs on board. Tomorrow we will move down to Purton and then stay there until we head back to Droitwich
We have been at home for a few days following some Cutweb activeity. First we went home for Lizzie’s birthday, then back up to Saul from where we drove to Stonehouse on Thursday. We did a walk along the Stroudwater into Stroud along with Andrew & Sheila and Alan & Sue At lunchtime we met
The plan was to get back to the marina today and drive home, so we didnt want to be too late. We couldn’t get through Holt lock before 8:00 so we set off about 7:30. The first two locks at Hawford were hard work as usual. Then we did the next one on our own,
Another day of following boat, even though we made an early start. It seems like others had the same idea. Again we met the non cooperative boaters. This time at falling sands lock. There was a boat coming up and we were second in the queue behind the non helpers. They just stood back and
Another early start, we arrived at Bratch just as the volunteers were arriving. Much cooler today, but still busy with boats. We were following a private boat where the boaters didn’t want to join in to help at the locks. At most locks we just arrived as they were leaving, so we didnt communicate much.
Again an early start, but we encountered boats at almost every lock. The queue at the upper Swindon lock caused a few problems as there is nowhere there for oncoming boats to wait. An even longer queue at the Botterham staircase meant it took over an hour to get through. But strangely by the time