Quiet Please.

 So we were only home just over a week, had two nice family days with the grandchildren and their parents and then leaving London at 6pm.

This happened on the way up

Everso pretty but made driving a bit tricky.

 

We did that stopping overnight thing at the Days Inn motel on the M40, I have joined a membership group on their website by giving my email and then getting 20% off so I think this night was £37 and free parking.  Leaving a 90 minute drive the next morning to the marina, meaning we can unload in the daylight.

So after lunch we set off.  

Now for any newbies here, this summer we are meeting up with two boats, Lesley & Joe on NB Hogarth and Amanda & David on NB Caxton, but they are taking the scenic route from the Leicester Arm, via Leicester city and the River Soar, then joining this canal the Trent and Mersey, so in the meantime we will amble along slowly.

I do love a gateway.

We ended up just north of Weston, fabulous pub here, actually two if you include The Holly Bush at Salt and a mile stroll, but on this occasion we went to neither.  As we approached the line of nice moorings there were four boats, but horribly spaced out leaving Git Gaps.  In fact the first boat was half a boats length from the beginning of the armco, so antisocial.

  

As we approached, moaning to each other, one boat from the centre was gathering up their ropes to leave, just waiting for us to pass.

Result.

So we went in and positioned ourselves forward to minimise any gap, button to button as I have always thought you should on popular moorings.  

Books out and we lounged in the cratch with cups of tea in the warmth.

Horror of horrors, when the single guy returned later he put on his generator, but it was in his cratch for some reason not as often is positioned at the stern where the engine is.  

We looked at each other....

Well we put up with it and after only an hour he popped out and switched it off. Phew.

I had thought we'd have to move on.

This is my book, 900 plus pages, completely gripping from the first chapter and number 8 or 9 I think in the series, thank goodness there is another coming soon.

Dawn the next morning, David left to move the car and I popped my head out to see this, then back to bed to read!

and this.

Supper was roasted tomatoes and feta with rice.