Well its been a real mixed bag of weather, from early morning when we were woken by the wind and rain but thankfully I wasn’t in any hurry to get away this morning as I had a few maintenance jobs to do so it was almost 1140 am before we left, by the the rain had stopped, but in the course of the day we had rain wind, sunshine, hail and even a rainbow.
We only met 4 boat and I recognised the first two, Autarky and Lord Toulouse. Last time we were this way the cladding on these apartments was peeling badly, it looks as if its all been replaced with new white cladding.
On the north side of Hinckley someone is having a very cold November, I can’t even imagine what it must be like living like that especially this time of the year.
We stopped for a short time at bridge 23 so that Diana could visit the canal side farm shop, we will see how good their free range chickens are tonight. We have noticed that several of the bridges along here have bat boxes mounted on their walls, I have no idea how successful they are but they do have a picture of a bat on them for bats that cant read. Mind you its probably better than living in a tent.
At Sutton Cheney Wharf we were pleased to see all the visitor moorings on the plastic walkway vacant, I expected them to be full. In the morning we will take on water before continuing towards the terminus, weather permitting.
Todays Journey 8¾ miles, no locks in 3½ hours.
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