A better day than yesterday.

Well my postscript Tuesday was a bit premature, it rained all of Tuesday evening, it rained all of yesterday, and it was chilly enough at midday for me, yes me, tight old git that I am, to put the central heating on, what is going on with our lack of sunshine! I blame Brexit J

Anyway enough moaning, I did brave the rain and with brolly over my head walked into Pewsey, a 20 minute walk away but downhill, well one way anyway, but it was worth the walk, another very nice village but the weather meant I never took my camera, the weather also meant I never indulged in either of the pubs, I am more of a sit in the garden and enjoy a pint reading the paper type these days.

Today I had an errand or two, first thing was a fill and empty, so water in, rubbish and the other stuff out before setting off around 10:15, my plan was to get to Honeystreet (lovely name for a village) before midday to try and get a visitor mooring, it was only a short run of about 4 lock free miles.

Heading for the service point.

Because of the amount of moored boats (about 75% of which are licensed) along the route it took a bit longer than anticipated, at least the views are improving.

Hill Cattle, the grass must be tasty up there,

Alton Barnes White Horse.

I arrived to find a nice 24 hr space right outside ‘The Barge’.

My first job after lunch was to walk back a couple of hundred yards to a sawmill and try to purchase a gang plank, something I have been looking for since setting off in 2014 but not yet obtained due to various reasons, the chap said he had nothing the size I wanted but I could look around and see if anything was suitable, well I did, after 15 minutes or so of wandering around I found an old length of 225x38mm, wet and a bit waney edged but it would do, he cut it down to 2.1metres long and charged me £8 for it, so back on the boat I chamfered the edges (to avoid splinters) and drilled a hole (to pin it to the bank), I may paint the edges to identify it but at the moment it’s too wet.

Being moored right by the pub and with it dry, although very black overhead, I decided it would be rude not to have a pint, so I did, nice beer, £3.80 a pint, the pub menu could improve, unless you love burgers, I bought a bag of crisps as well, £1 for a standard sized bag of crisps, the country has gone mad, I blame Brexit J.

Tonights mooring.

It was getting very black overhead and windy too, I finished my pint and crisps and headed back inside the boat just before the rain began again!