It was a funny sort of day leaving home about half nine in fine weather and big black clouds, it wasn’t long before we had a few very short light showers, lots of places the road was completely dry. Then it got out really nice, the outside temperature hit 13°C but as we got to the Midland heavy constant rain and the temperature dropped to just 5°C as we got to the boat the rain stopped and the temperature managed to get back to double figures for a bit.
Two fifteen saw us drop the mooring lines off and head out onto the cut, turning left towards Fazeley. I met the first boat of the day at the first bridge hole, no longer any bridge, the surprising thing was he had his TV aerial on top of a mast on his roof, so he couldn’t have come very far as there are lots of low bridges.
I just love the way this house is painted, not only did they go up to the boundary they also did exactly half the chimney. You can see from the photo what the weather was like then.
When we got to Glascote lock again the bottom offside paddle was up a couple of clicks, however when we came to empty the lock we could only wind the same paddle up about one and a half turns before it came up solid. As we made our way to the junction the weather was getting cooler and cloudier. One thing I don’t recall seeing before is the signpost at the junction, maybe it was buried in the hedge, as you can see the newer one is a few feet to the right . As we passed the old CRT offices we were discussing where to moor for the night, stop here or carry on to Hopwas, it was turning cool and spitting with rain so we pulled over opposite the old offices and water point. we had only just finished tying up when it started to rain properly, so that was it for the night.
Todays Journey
3¾ miles, 2 locks in 1¾ hours
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