Well I got it wrong again, the river is the actual boundary and we were in Newton Harcourt last night. This morning we walked to the garden centre in Westow crossing the river to get there. One of the reasons for the visit was to see their model village,
it really could do with a little love, maybe when the summer arrives I think CRT may have to contract to maintain the canal running through it, wit all the boats high and dry.
A bonus was the lovely Deli they have on site selling freshly made Turkish products. Don’t look at the sweet counter, you will get fat just thinking about them.
We finally set off a little after 1130, the nice dry towpaths of yesterday now puddles and mud. Some of the trees on the offside look like this, I have seen it many times before but don’t know the cause.
At Lock 20 there is quite a bit of land beside the lock and it has made me wonder what Bridge House Barns has planned, tea rooms maybe with outside seating? who knows. You can just see the lock bollard on the right of the picture.
I expected to see some progress with the tent erecting, but no change, just a wooden base and two doors standing in splendid isolation.
Although no boats had gone up the locks since we came down yesterday the levels were all over the place but non completely empty. The weather remained quite misty with very high humidity so working lock felt much warmer than it actually was and once back on the boat I felt quite chilly. I don’t have a clue what these tiny flowers were out along
the tow path. It wasn’t long before Saddington Tunnel came into view, another clean run through with no oncoming traffic.
The wood carver was still moored between the tunnel and Debdale Marina, The other trip I posted a photo of a carved horse head he had done sitting on the back of his boat. Just look how delicate this mouse is that he is working on at the moment.
Today’s Journey
6½ miles, 5 locks in 3½ hours
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