Last night we ate at The boat House conveniently moored right outside the door, the place was just about deserted so we were able to sit beside the fire. The meals we had were again very good and 30% of the price of the mains. When we came out it had just started raining.
When I got up for my night time wee, looking outside everywhere was white with a good covering of snow, probably half had gone by this morning.
We set off at 11am to a really miserable misty, damp, cold morning.
At Braunston Turn we went straight ahead towards the South Oxford canal. The island at the junction is in bit or a bad way. I know boats hit the corners but that done cause the problems inside the brick arch. I wonder what the effect is on the bridge foundations.
Heading along the puddle bank the offside is very close to the water level, it looks as if CRT have cleared the undergrowth to inspect the area. By now the weather had detreated to very fine drizzle and much less visibility, but this was soon replaced by real rain, after that it did improve very slightly. The same wide beam boat is moored just before Napton Junction that was there when we last came this way which is surprising, as its moored with lose lines round the rail of the pilling, this normally results in them cutting through quite quickly and the boat going adrift. At the junction the seagulls were again taking up residence on the sign post.
Again it was straight on along the South Oxford, or plan was to moor by the first lock tonight and then go to Fenny tomorrow, but HS” have a stoppage for a month at Wormleighton starting tomorrow, so we winded at the last winding hole before the locks and moored here for the night.
Todays Journey
7 miles with no locks in 2¼ hours
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