We had planned to start a bit later today, but were both awake anyway so ended up setting off about 8am as normal. The sunshine had abandoned us so it was thermals and woolly hats, in stark contrast to the previous days!
The cloudy skies soon turned to rain, so we thought bumbles to that and moored up to wait out the rain for an hour or so. Sarah made good use of the time to do some washing using the new twin tub (Wanda the washing machine) – whilst I got geeky and did some work on some android programming for Canal Buddy.
Once the skies cleared we set off again – the sky was still a little moody, but it gave a nice contrast to the scenery compared to before.
We stopped again briefly to fill up with water and get rid of our rubbish at Sutton Cheyney Wharf, and then stopped again at Ashby Boats by Stoke Golding to top up the fuel and empty the poo tank. Their pump out was quite unique, whilst James who helped us turned out to be a fellow techy, starting a course in Computer Science at Liverpool later this year so we had a good chat about programming and the raspberry pi.
We’ve moored for the night just over a mile from Marston Junction, so all setup to be back on the Coventry Canal tomorrow and get through Bedworth and Nuneaton. Once we get to Atherstone we’ll even have some locks to do, which might come as a bit of a shock after all these lock-free days!
Final job for the day – sorting out the beer/supplies cupboard 🙂
Novelty pump-out machine! Ex milk float or robin reliant perhaps? And a washing machine – on a narrowboat? !!!
Days 1 to 3 were rather later than 8am so I think it is a bit premature to call 8am “as normal”. Nevertheless it was a good effort Toby – well done. Shame about the weather it looks as if it will perk up again next week. We had two of the beer chocolates after lunch today and voted them a hit – thank you.
Very nice to meet you both Sarah and Toby! Give me a heads up if you’re passing us again on your travels! The blog seems a very good read and I’m especially interested in the technologically modified narrowboat, what a fabulous idea!