Just after eight o’clock we left Pratts wharf and headed for Stourport. As we approached York St lock two boats pulled out in front of us. One of them then proceded to wind just above the lock. We had to wait while he winded, then wait to go down the lock behind him. It would
Another lateish rise and breakfast, then pottering about doing some odd jobs. About 10:30 we wandered up to the caravan site for a cup of tea with T & L. They were getting ready to pack up as they were heading to Cheltenham for a craft fair. After tea and goodbyes we went back to
A late rise, then Tres & Lins joined us for a leisurely breakfast at around ten. We needed to turn the boat around as we were going to Worcester later in the week. The weather looked OK so we thought that we would go for a short cruise up to Whittington Horse bridge and back.
We had arranged to meet Teresa & Lindsay at Wolverley. They are staying in the nearby caravan park for the weekend. Unfortunately the M5 was even more clogged up and slower than usual so it was rather late by the time we arrived in Kidderminster. I had worked out that we needed to leave the
We arrived about four o’clock yesterday and I immediately set about refitting the water tank. I climbed down into the tank void to clean it out and realised that I’m getting too old for that sort of thing. At one point I got to the stage where I wasnt quite sure how I was going
Yesterday I put the old tank liner in the skip, we tidied up a bit and went home. Today I contacted various companies about a replacement liner and found that Duratank had made the original and were prepared to attempt a repair. So this afternoon we dashed back up the M5 to retrieve it from
Off to Netto before breakfast to get some bread (and wine and other stuff we didn’t intend to buy) and then got stuck into today’s tasks. Heddi did lots of painting. The bow area in particular now looks much smarter. I tried to drill out the eight screws holding down the inspection hatch into the
Not going anywhere this weekend, we have decided to spend some time doing jobs on board. We didn’t do much today though. After a trip up the motorway in lovely bright sunshine we arrived about six o’clock. We unloaded, cooked a meal and played with our new clock radio/ipod docking thing that we bought from
We left at about 8:30. It’s usually around 3 hours from Kinver to our home mooring and we wanted to be away home soon after twelve. However things didnt work out quite the way we had planned. When we got to the first lock, Whittington lock, we were third in a queue to go down.