Another blanket

Lots of small squares in blue, green and purple, I think I'll add a few pink ones too.

I'm joining as I go with the squares attached on the diagonal.

Rainy day

Wet and cold, but still had a great time, I didn't like the half an hour of sleet we had.

Sex on the canal

We were by now on the Ashby canal, very quiet and very rural.
The only things worrying me were the canal side signs saying 'Ashby Anal Society'.
I was concerned that it might be compulsory.
I eventually realised that some local wag had blanked out the letter c's on all these signs, it was a great relief.

Last year DD bought my L&M a padded lumberjack shirt, it is lovely and warm so he wore it almost continually throughout the holiday.

Unfortunately  when the sun peeped through the clouds the jacket proved too warm so he wanted it unzipped.

As soon as the clouds crept back my L&M got cold and wanted the jacket zipped up.

As he was steering this left only one hand free and he found it impossible to work the zip one handed.

Being a dutiful wife I was always there to lend a helping hand, unfortunately as I can't see to well the easiest way to do the zip was to kneel at my L&M's feet, this way I could clearly see what I was doing.

I thought we were getting some strange looks, but it wasn't until,  as we passed one boat someone on board shouted out 'If my wife did that when I was  steering, I'd crash' that I realised what it looked like I was doing!

From Sutton Stop to Stoke Golding

No pictures from this part of the trip, it rained all day, apart from when we had sleet.

On to Hawksbury Junction

We passed a VW graveyard, the were all sorts of other cars here too.

Ponies moored beside the boats.

Through the lock, there in only a few inches difference in the water level either side of the lock.

Under the bridge and round in a wide sweep to moor up at the visitor moorings.

Through the Newbold tunnel and on to Stretton Stop

A small swing bridge.

 

 We filled the water tank here, there were hire boats available, a shop, boats being repainted, lots to see.

There were liveaboard moorings here too.

Through Hilmorton locks to Newbold

 Many boats have wood burning stoves on board so they keep a stock of scavenged on the roof. 

We went through Hilmorton locks, luckily there was a volunteer lock keeper on duty who helped me.
We stopped briefly at Rugby to get supplies from Tesco, then on to Newbold, we wanted to fill our water tank but someone had moored across the water point despite there being lots of room on the visitor moorings.
We decided to tackle the Newbold tunnel in the morning so we moored up for the night.