The temperature last night dropped to 0.7°C so we were rather pleased that I fired the Dickinson stove up yesterday
A very late start today 11-30 as I had some carpet fitting to do first, The adhesive says outside or in well ventilated areas so it was doors wide open. I couldn’t finish the job as we ran short of adhesive, so we headed off to Atherstone to try to source some more. It was quite a slow run to the locks as just as we were about to set off another boat came slowly passed. I just love some of the gardens above Atherstone locks, what the owners do
Also what nature does, these swans and ducks looked more than happy on someone’s lawn.
The boat we were following pulled over and we carried on to the top lock where 2 Volockies and a few others set the top lock for us, there were also a couple doing litter picking. We went down 5 locks, meeting a lady Volockie at lock No.3 before mooring to try to find more adhesive, two carpet shops but no luck, then the Toolbox, one of those emporiums that has every thing you want and a few you don’t. Of course they had it, they even had a choice of makes. Job done and back to the boat. We had lunch while we were moored up before setting off down the rest of the locks. On our way down we met a pair coming up at lock 8, this was the second pair of the day as a pair of Bywater hotel boats passed while I was carpet fitting. Once we cleared the locks we moored for the night and I refitted and filled the lounge radiator.
Today’s Journey
4 Miles, 11 locks in 2¾ hours
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