It was a lovely Autumn morning, bright but cold. We still have our summer duvet on and I
wanted to change it but Richard says the nights are going to get warm over the
next few days – he had better be right!
We pulled pins at 10.15am and set off.
I had been hoping that that there would be lots of big juicy
blackberries this year as there had been so many green ones earlier in the
summer but sadly it seems that the small green ones have just ripened. I had hoped to make jam but I think it would
take me ages to pick enough.
The locks were really busy and we were following a single hander so I
ended up doing most of them twice though more often than not there was one
coming up so someone to help. At
Dashwoods Lock a hire boat pulled in behind us.
Mrs. Hire Boater came up to the lock but she didn’t have a windlass –
fat lot of good that was. When Mary H
was in the lock she appeared with her windlass and stood at the top gate
waiting for me to struggle to open and close the bottom gate. Now I call that plain rude to watch someone
heaving a full length single gate. At
the next lock she did the same – I was so mad but I knew if I said something to
her I would probably regret what came out of my mouth!
As we approached the lift bridge at Lower Heyford a lady walking across
it started to talk to us, we couldn’t hear her so she shouted, we still
couldn’t hear her so in the end she used hand signals as she was offering to
open the bridge for us! Two totally
different types of people!!
It was getting quite hot so as no-one else was moored at Kirtlington
Quarry we pulled over and got the chairs out.
It was a lovely afternoon but once the sun went it got quite chilly.
Today’s photos are some that were taken during the summer as I didn’t
get round to taking any today – too busy crocheting!
6.72 miles
4 locks
1 lift bridge
Linda, I love your self-control in that situation. There must have been some karma there - your kept your words and were rewarded for all of that
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