Penkridge

 We had quite a bit of rain last night, thankfully not while we were walking back from the pub, even if we were right outside the garden.
When we woke this morning it was fine and quite a bit of traffic about on the canal. The chap behind started his engine at the same time I did, I feel a bit better about mine now.We set off at ten past ten, a bit too early as it turned out because at eleven minutes past ten the sky's opened and it hammered it down, but since it stopped it has been a nice day, so an extra hour in bed would have been well worth it.This house has two very nice signs, one at each end of their property on the none tow path side, I wonder who B.W.W. is and what powers they have about people fishing the tow path opposite.
I have seen some interesting covers over the rear decks of boats in my time, from Fools and Horses three wheelers. Landrover cabs, even tents but this is the first corrugated iron shed I have seen.Things were a bit slow at Boggs Lock where they now have a set of stop planks specifically for that lock. When we arrived a boat had just gone down the lock and one was coming up while we were second in the queue to go down. It turned out that the boat that had just gone down was a Training Boat from Gailey  http://gaileywharf.com/training.htm  and they had winded below the lock and would be coming up prior to us going down. There were three people being trained and I would estimate the youngest to be mid 60s and the others probably well into their 70s. The chap doing the training requested we left them to it so they could work under his instructions. I must say he had a lot of patience with them, explaining every step of the way. I hope they all enjoyed their day and got a lot from it. We carried on until finally mooring for the night just above Filance Lock in bright ward sunshine.

Todays Journey 7½ miles 5 Locke in 3½ hours.