As we were passing our old mooring at Roundhill Wharf we saw that NB Aurora was getting ready to leave. We had a quick word with them and discovered that they had finally sold the apartment at Roundhill Wharf and were moving their boat up to Audlem. They were intending to live on the boat for a few weeks until the new house was available.

The bridge under the road at the bottom of Kidderminster lock has been a target for grafitti for many years. It was also dark and dirty, but now it has been transformed with new mural depicting the decades from 1920s.

This is a vast improvement, I hope the local youths don’t think that they can improve it by adding their own contributions.

We got to our Kinver mooring just after twelve and spent a couple of hours doing odd jobs and cleaning the boat. We expected Aurora to come past as they had followed us through Kidderminster lock, but they must have stopped off somewhere on the way.

We left at about 14:30 as I had a blood donor’s appointment at 17:00.