And I'm off again

I woke this morning at 6:30, a chilly morning but bright and soon the sun was putting in an appearance.

At 9am I walked to the marina office to pay for my four night stay, it was cheaper to pay for a week (madness) so I told him to charge me for that instead, after walking back and sorting myself out I reversed out of my berth, winded, and was on my way again, the decision to go to Uxbridge for wood had been decided against when I checked online and found the store was out of stock, so it was a right turn and head for Rickmansworth again.

I picked up a hitch hiker as I left the marina and she hopped off when I pulled on to the lock landing.

Not much to say really, a pleasant warm trip so just a few pictures.

Nice empty canal, apart from the idiot jogger.

Nice Garden

Nice lock in my favour with a gate open

Nice little boat

Another nice boat, I like this style, I want one!

I arrived at ‘Ricky’ around 12:30, plenty of space so I moored just before Tesco, and once I had sorted myself I walked to Mount Vernon Hospital, to the minor injuries unit (for a sore lumpy tight knuckle joint in my left hand), it was further than I thought and up a very long steep hill to begin with, by the time I had reached the top I was regretting not hopping in a taxi, oh well only 1.6miles not too bad !

I waited just over two hours to be seen, so that was a pleasant surprise, the BBC would have us believe it’s worth allowing at least 5 hours. Anyway I was told my problem was that I had worked too hard all my life J (I am really sure that's what she said) and the ligament/tendon is damaged, with calcium building up along it, in a few years the finger will curl up (and possibly others either side of it) and be unusable, nice, they can operate but will not until it gets worse, nothing like a good bit of prevention eh! Just have to add it to the list, sore knee, sore hip, sore back, sore shoulder, at least this is one the left, all the others are on the right! So I trudged back to the boat feeling it was an afternoon wasted.

Shopping tomorrow to stock up again and then decide what I want to do for the next few weeks.

Mooring:

Totals this post: 4.5 miles : 5 locks