......a lovely day.
A beautiful start to the morning saw me moving away from
Polesworth at 10am.
Passing Stiper’s Hill where the boys with toys were out in
force, loads of white van man’s having offloaded the bikes either for
themselves or their sons and thoroughly enjoying what looked like a fun
morning, the photo’s not great, I didn’t put the specs on and it needed a bit
of zoom!
While in the field almost opposite more important things were
happening, eating.
According to Mr Google there was another recycling yard at
Bradley Green right by bridge 48, but I saw no evidence at all, I think it was
probably just a registered office address. My theory had been to moor there
overnight if I found it ready for Monday opening but instead I decided to head into
Atherstone.
With the sun shining and pleasant views not even the thought
of 6 locks ahead could diminish my feeling of well being, actually I quite like locks.
Arriving at the first lock which was in my favour I nipped
below for a quick comfort break, strolling casually up to the lock I found a
lady had started tuning it to her favour, ‘oooh where did you come from’ she
said, I pointed to my boat on the lock landing and smiled, nothing was going to
upset me today, not even someone turning the lock without looking first, there were four adults on the boat so after a quick chat I headed
back to mine in preparation, and went in after they came out.
The next two locks were in my favour due to the boat that had gone
down and at the fourth one I arrived just as another boat did wanting to come
down, the lock was still empty in my
favour again so the couple locked me through that one.
The fifth lock was a bit puzzling because some lazy so and
so had left the top gate open with the paddles up, but nobody had been in front
of me and it could not have been a boat coming down, so I guess someone had
moved off a mooring and gone up, not good from either a correct procedure point
of view but also from a water conservation angle, lazy person! Ah but don’t let
it spoil this lovely day Alan J
The next lock was full but a boat was heading down so I
opened the top gate and waved him in, he was on his own and asked how many more
locks he had to go before Polesworth, I told him six including this one, he
said ‘it’s hard work on your own’ I just agreed but it’s not too bad on single
locks, doubles are a bit harder.
After going through the lock I moored up , it is empty on
the visitor moorings, not another boat in sight, yet when I came down before it
was almost full, next weekend no doubt will be busier!
I wandered into Atherstone and topped up supplies before
settling down with a cuppa, the Sunday paper and Dire Straits on the CD player,
what a nice Sunday.
Totals today: 4 miles : 6 Locks
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