This morning we went down to the WWT to give the car a bit more charge. It dint work properly the first time. So we had to have a second walk around and a trip to the cafe while it did charge the second time. The afternoon was spent on various maintenance jobs. Heddi did
Yesterday Steve & Lori came round in the morning for a cuppa and to natter about old people’s health issues! Heddi went to her choir rehearsals in the afternoon. I turned the boat around in order to work on the ongoing problem of the water ingress around the side hatch. The Smart needed charging this
We have been to the dentist this afternoon, then drove straight back to here. With the Smart in the car park we walked up the towpath to Splatt bridge to get the boat and then chugged back to Patch bridge. Luckily there was a space for us on the non towpath side. So we moored
Our worst weather day. It started off very cold and by by the time we reached Frampton it was really cold, wet and windy. We had a real struggle mooring up as the wind was coming right across the canal and Heddi couldn’t hold the boat on her own whilst I hammered in the pins,
It had rained heavily during the night and was still raining on and off at breakfast. After consulting various weather forecasts we set off just after nine. It was dryish but cold with a strong wind blowing. I had intended to top up the fuel from the jerry can last night, but forgot. As we
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