You may remember that I said yesterday that Muffin hadn’t been eating
so Richard gave him the new food this morning and he wolfed it down!! Now what on earth do I do with 12 kilos of
food he doesn’t like!
Up through Shepperton Lock and a chance to empty what needed emptying! Along to Chertsey Lock to fill with water –
it took so long I reckon we must have been down to the last couple of
inches! I keep asking Richard if he can
put a water gauge in but it’s a job that never gets done.
We stopped for lunch at Laleham where there are some proper moorings –
not brilliant but perfectly adequate.
After a pow wow we decided to stay the night. We went for a nice walk along the Thames Path
to Penton Hook Lock passing the Queen Mary Reservoir Raw Water Intake. Thames Water abstracts from several intakes
(including Datchet, Laleham, Walton and Hampton) under its licence from the
Environment Agency which allows 1818 million litres per day on average over the
year. The Queen Mary Reservoir was once
the largest reservoir in the world and supplies western London and Surrey. It was completed in December 1924 and opened
officially by King George V in June 1925.
The grass is very parched in this part of the world – it wasn’t like
this when we left home 10 days ago.
However we passed a lovely flower bed outside a house which must be
watered every day.
In the evening we went to the Three Horseshoes in Laleham. Richard had been up earlier to inspect it and
found that we could take Muffin into the garden and that there were Morris Men
dancing this evening. We ordered our
food but it started to drizzle – everyone else went inside but we had to decamp
to the smoking gazebo! We had a lovely
meal and then sat and watched the Thames Valley Morris Men who hail from
Claygate! In my mind Claygate is nowhere
near the Thames Valley!! TVMM have been
dancing in Claygate, Surrey and further afield continuously since 1952 and
continue to perform each year at the Claygate Flower Show. They also dance
around all the pubs in Claygate on Boxing Day.
3.13 miles
2 locks
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