At 9:30 we moved the car to Tyle Mill, walked back to the boat. At 10:30 we moved the boat to Tyle Mill, through a lock and a swing bridge, we emptied the black water tank and filled the clean water tank. This took us until midday so I made a sandwich for lunch so we could eat on the move.
We arrived at the next swing bridge, opened the swing bridge, let a day boat through, followed them to the next lock where there was a problem, a damaged and leaky paddle, we were stuck, it took two hours to fill the lock!
The day boat was able to turn around and head back, we just had to sit and wait. By the time we were through I was freezing, we moored up near Theale, it's a nice village but the moorings aren't that close to the shops.
We are on the towpath moorings so we could stay three weeks but there are lots of overhanging trees so no satellite and very limited solar.
We may move tomorrow, either to Burghfield or maybe just on to the visitor moorings, they are full at the moment but there may be space tomorrow. The visitor moorings are 48 hour but we can stay seven days as we had disabled status.
As we'd been moving there was hot water, woohoo I was able to have a shower, lovely.
I then cooked chicken chow mein for tea.
Tomorrow I need to walk back and collect the car and move it here.
6 comments:
Sounds good. Hard work. But good.
What did the dog (or isn't it dogs now?)think to all this activity?
It's a good thing you are so fit with all that walking back and forth! Glad you got to enjoy a hot shower.
Sounds like a lot of hard work but good, particularly at this time of year.
So much for lazing about on the river ;-)
It sounds like a lot of walking etc. Do you ever go to Aldermaston Wharf, I have never noticed if there are moorings there but I have waited for boats to pass by when the bridge is open.
Your life sounds idyllic but obviously has its drawbacks, you must be fit as a flea,lol
Briony
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