Happy 2015 everyone

I had a quiet night at the Hampton Court Palace moorings, a few fireworks early in the evening but by the time midnight arrived I was fast asleep.

This morning was very mild and as I only wanted to get to Kingston to look for a winter hat I didn’t leave until 11am, I moored up at Kingston Bridge as planned,

again on the free 24hour visitor moorings, and began to make arrangements for my passage onto the Grand Union first on the phone to Teddington Lock, that was simple I could go through whatever day I wanted to,  and for £8.75 I could moor the night before on the lock waiting area, next phone Brentford, Thames Lock, I had been warned you had to give 24 hours notice so I phoned in plenty of time, they were on answer phone as expected but as I started to listen to the message this blooming great cat appeared from nowhere and jumped in amongst the pigeons, the Lock was closed until 5 ^th January, ahem, no-one had mentioned they might be closed over Christmas and the New Year but they are J.

So it’s plan “B”, there wasn’t a plan “B” but there is now, tomorrow back to Shepperton, Saturday back to Hampton Court or Kingston, Sunday down to Teddington Lock stay overnight and Monday 5^th through that lock and on to Brentford, Thames Lock assuming they phone me back to confirm my passage, one little problem which I will ignore is my Thames Licence runs out on the 4^th and I won’t be off the Thames now until the 5^th, I will see if anyone notices.

So the blog will be quiet while I pootle upstream and then down again, unless anything momentous happens.

Total Today : 0 Locks 3 miles