Droitwich marina

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

Worcester

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

Hempstead

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,

Purton

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

Patch Bridge

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

Splatt Bridge

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

Saul Junction

A day of visitors. Adam and Sian arrived at 10:30 and we took them for a chug up to Saul. We moored up and then retraced yesterday’s walk back to their car, then on to pick up our car. Meanwhile we had a call from Nikki saying that they were on the way. We told

Not Moved

A good day weatherwise. The clouds have gatthered a bit since first thing, but there’s still blue in the sky. Loads of bird song here. Our ‘Merlin’ song recogition app has detected 8 or 9 different ones. This afternoon I did a bit of maintenance. It started off with just scleaning up the locker where

Frampton

On the move today. We began by driving via Tesco at Cam to Splatt bridge at Church end Frampton. Conveniently there was space in the little car park not under a tree so we left it there. Then it was a walk back to Slimbridge to get the boat. After topping up the water we

Still here

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