On Saturday morning we
took a short cruise to Clifton upon Dunsmore where we will probably stay for a
week. My little brother, Richard, and
his family may be coming to stay next weekend and as there are locks about ½ mile further on at Hillmorton and it’s a nice
stretch of canal to walk south to Braunston it's ideal for visitors.
We moored by Clifton
Double Bridge as there was a good layby for Karen to park the car when going to
work during the week. Opposite us there
is a new pipeline being installed but I couldn’t see what it was due to be
carrying.
When walking back to Newbold
to get the car, the camera fell out of
Karen’s pocket and into the canal. Try
as we might we couldn’t retrieve it. We
could only assume it had very little metal in it as our trusty magnet didn’t
find it either. Anyway, that’s the
reason there is only one picture on this short blog entry.
With storm Katie due over
the rest of the weekend there wasn’t much boat traffic and we spent most of the
time catching up with our bridge lessons and walking. On Monday we went to buy a new camera and get
some summer plants for the boat. After
the winds had died down and the clouds cleared, the late afternoon turned out
to be glorious. We took advantage of the
weather and potted up some of our pots. It felt good to have lighter evenings too –
nice enough to sit outside.
When entering up our boat
log I saw we have now travelled over 1,500 miles since we moved on board at the
end of 2014. Now Karen is back at work
the distances travelled are greatly reducing but this gives us more chance to
visit the areas we travel through.
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