I
had had a text from Diane last night saying that they would be with us about
9.30am this morning but at 8.30am they came passed – we were still drinking our
early morning tea in bed! They went on
up to Calcutt locks and waited there for us – Ray took the opportunity to catch
up on some work.
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| Our mooring spot last night |
At
Napton Junction the boat we had been following pulled over and there was a big
conflab over the map. It can’t have been
that hard surely – it was either straight on or right!
I
popped into Calcutt Boats and bought some more coal – we have had the fire lit
for the last two nights now and then we lost Muffin. Richard and I were just going to go searching
when I asked Ray if he could just check Ferndale out – yes Muffin was down
there eating Banjo’s breakfast!
Next
it was the Stockton flight – 10 locks.
We decided to tie the two boats together which gave us three people for
the locks while Richard steered the boats.
We were doing really well until we came across a slow hire boat coming
up which spoilt our record time!
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| Mary H and Ferndale tied together |
We
passed the Blue Lias which was ablaze with colour, we could have moored up
there but decided to press on to the bottom of the flight and go to the Two
Boats for lunch. As we got to the bottom
it started to spit with rain and got steadily heavier – we were all very glad
that we were done for the day and enjoyed our lunch in the pub.
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| The Blue Lias |
We
lit the fire as I felt really cold but later in the evening we had every
window, hatch and door open as we were way too hot!
Chambers
Bridge - Number 100 to Long Itchington
7.98
miles
13
locks
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