It rained over night and we were awoken in the morning to the tings and tangs of the water droplets from the over hanging trees.  We made a quick exit as we wanted to get through the heart of Wolverhampton today. We made good progress through the various locks and stopped for some scrummy bacon butties. Autherley junction and our entry on to the Staffs and Worcester canal was somewhat underwhelming, and lacked the hustle and bustle of other junctions.

We moored up in good time at 4.30 and the arrival of a hungry pair of swans and two signets.  We didn’t feed them and paid the price of one of the swans nibbling on the side of the boat (do swans have teeth?!).  We tried hiding, Toby hissed and waved a big towel, we even banged ropes and fenders on the side of the boat…it was one nutty swan!  Eventually it did leave us and tried it’s luck at Casual Water who moored in front of us.