tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53103915918710492762024-03-19T09:01:52.721+00:00The Boys on TourMum and Dads travels around the Inland Waterways of England.BINKS AND BENJIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01492649756421938491noreply@blogger.comBlogger69125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310391591871049276.post-63597216766623773922017-05-30T08:05:00.001+01:002017-05-30T08:05:23.738+01:00Kennet and Avon (Day 47)Hi There<br />
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Quicker than normal post here as we've reached the end of the line that in this case is Bristol and are currently sat in the floating harbour.<br />
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Over the years we've heard loads of problems about boats seemingly moored for miles and miles along this canal and being difficult to moor, but we've not found this to be the case and have moored pretty much where we'd planned to along the way. In some places we've been lucky as there might have only been one or two visitor mooring spaces and an hour either way might have found them full, but then we do aim to arrive at popular destinations late morning by which time people would have set off and this seems to have worked for us. It also has to be said that it's not the height of the holiday season and whilst we've seen a lot more holiday boats these last few weeks there will no doubt be more around in the coming months. We've also used our gang planks quite a bit these past seven weeks as away from designated moorings can prove to be a bit difficult to get in tight to the bank. 100+ locks may seem a bit daunting, especially when you've got to do them again on the return journey, but when you do a quarter/third of them (29 at the Caen Hill Flight at Devizes) then the other 80 spread over seven weeks isn't probably much worse than our lock usage on other canals. That said though, we're planning to double back to Reading over about a three week period so Devizes aside will see us doing about 25 to 30 locks a week for our remaining time on here. So with that quick take on how we've found our time on here.<br />
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Anyway, back to our last few days.<br />
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Went for a walk along an old disused railway, but found that it wasn't completely disused! Not a sexy steam train, but it seemed pretty full each time it went past. It turned out to be a very popular cycle route as well with signage for Bath one way and Bristol the other.<br />
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Our peaceful mooring spot in the middle of nowhere, well two miles from the closest towns. Was it quiet though, no, as it seemed a magnet in the area and there were loads having a swim and a large open space above where Barbie's were in full throw. Weren't too sure about leaving the boat though, as we thought it might end up being a diving platform so Nicky took The Boys for a walk by herself.<br />
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Then the kids went, peace decended, had out tea, took The Boys out, but hang on what's this up in the open area at the top of a pontoon? Tent, music centre/deck of some thought, half a dozen people and boom boom rave music, I wonder how long this is going to go on for! So anyway went for our walk, got back, few more people now so just pulled the boat to the end of the pontoon and a bit further away from the access ramp and settled down to a bit of TV.<br />
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Then shortly after a couple turned up at our boat who turned out to be the ones that had arranged the gathering and were a bit worried about disturbing us and told us to come and see them if it got too loud. We thought that was nice and considerate so told them not to worry and just have a good time (that they did) and was still boom booming at half seven the next morning! Just as well I like rave music I suppose and Nicky just sleeps so no worries.<br />
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Early start the next morning in case we couldn't moor at the next visitor mooring at Hanham Lock as after that the river becomes tidal and you have to go right through to Bristol. The only lock of the day, assuming we can stop where planned and just so happened upon a holiday boat coming in the other direction who worked the lock for us.<br />
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And lucky us, one space that was probably where the holiday boat we'd just past had been for the night.<br />
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Early start the next morning as with the tidal section down to Bristol we had a window of leaving at 07:00 or midday and at £30 for a single nights mooring in Bristol Harbour we didn't fancy getting there half way through the day.<br />
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Whilst it wasn't raining it was a damp misty start, but quite quick as the tide had turned and was in our favour.<br />
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Netham Lock where we'd walked to the day before to speak to the lock keeper and stopping here to pay up for our stay.<br />
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Then it was off through Bristol to the docks to find a mooring space.<br />
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Only the one low bridge that gave a clearance of a little over two metres so we'll be fine.....<br />
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Yup, no problem, just a bend over job whilst going under.<br />
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Then aiming towards where we ended up for the night in the first couple of pictures.<br />
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So that's us once again up to date and as far west and we're going so it'll be about turn and back to The Thames now.<br />
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Onwards and upwards, or I suppose sideways when you're traveling East to West and Nicky's completed 105 of her 208 locks as well as 22 swing bridges so far. Now I say 208 locks as our book says there are 104 of them although they're numbered up to 107 that would make 214. To further confuse myself, I've logged us as doing 105 with 4 more to go that would then make it 109 so somethings not right somewhere. But then with having garbled on about it, do you really care???<br />
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Always good to see no mooring within 50' of a bridge, but I guess if you're a wider boat then it's okay!!!<br />
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The Boys walking with Nicky whilst moving forward, only a short hop to Bradford on Avon today.<br />
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The best bits of what you miss if you don't stop.<br />
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Only a short one back towards Bradford on Avon though as it's a bit warm.<br />
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Then after tea when it's a bit cooler they get another one.<br />
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Sort of got lost and came across Freshford and then Limply Stoke before finding the River Avon and just followed it back until we found where we were.<br />
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Any guesses what this could have been?<br />
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And then it's off again on another two mile cruise, but no lock this time 😁<br />
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Turning towards the Dundas Aqueduct, but mooring just on the left before crossing it.<br />
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And once again missing what's underneath unless you stop.<br />
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All moored up.<br />
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Now these things are a pain in the arse and whilst I fully accept that the waterways and towpaths are for use by all, if you're going to continually hit my boat with your oars then either try harder not to or at least wave, acknowledge or say sorry and not just assume it's your waterway and we're just in the way!<br />
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Fortunately, for Nicky, she wasn't even onboard when I manage to foul the prop with our own rope, talk about scoring an own goal, so just had to accept muttering to myself instead of having someone else to blame and shout at.<br />
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Two and a half hours later and then a call out to River Canal Rescue who turned up the next morning and spent another hour or so and all was sorted, other than the need to replace a stern rope!<br />
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Made it to Bath and walked up to a bit of the Skyline walk with The Boys.<br />
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They're not interested with views though, they just want to have a play. Eight and nine now and still pups at heart.<br />
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Nicky went on a tour that took her up the Bath Abbey Tower<br />
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And when she got back we went down the six locks that'll take us onto The River Avon.<br />
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Then a drop of 19' 5" in the last lock but one that I think is probably the deepest we've done so far on the network with the exception of maybe the staircase locks that take you up onto The Lancaster Canal as part of The Ribble Link. (See page tabs above of this journey)<br />
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And just when your not expecting it you come across a visitor mooring (on the left) so it's a 180 so we're facing up river<br />
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And that'll do us nicely.<br />
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Great views.<br />
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So there we are, all up to date and sitting just down river from Saltford. Aiming to be in Bristol in the next two or three days then I can start colouring in The Kennet and Avon part of our map as done. Then it'll be back track time although we won't be taking seven weeks to do the West to East journey.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif; font-size: 15.4px;">Day 1399 in the Badger Sett Narrow boat - 2982</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif; font-size: 15.4px;"> miles, 1890 locks and 1496 cruising hours further on from when we started.</span>BINKS AND BENJIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01492649756421938491noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310391591871049276.post-32120227691828910792017-05-12T12:21:00.000+01:002017-05-12T12:21:02.513+01:00Kennet and Avon (Day 29)Hi There<br />
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So Nicky's now done 89 of her 208 locks plus 17 Swing bridges that I hadn't thought about at the outset. So slowly but surely getting there. 29 of those locks coming in the form of the Caen Hill flight, but a bit more about those later.<br />
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Bit of an overcast day, but we're in a fourteen mile section without any locks so can just plod along at our two or three miles an hour.<br />
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Another one of the chalk horses, I think Nicky said there are about eight of them along the way.<br />
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Nesting time for these swans.<br />
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Moored up about midway along this fourteen mile section and Nicky's been busy washing and hanging out the washing on our whirly line.<br />
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Came across this on one of walks, it's called a Long Barrow and was only built a few years back as a burial chamber for ashes. Nicky checked, but all the spaces are reserved! Does she know or is she planning something for me!!<br />
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Quite a few wide beams on the canal and most of them seem to be hire boats. Full marks to a holiday boater taking one of these out if they're new to boating.<br />
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Passing some of the locals<br />
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Still on the lock free section, but still a couple of swing bridges to contend with.<br />
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Well at least this swing bridge doesn't look like it'll need opening and closing anytime soon.<br />
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Another day another chalk horse.<br />
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First look at the Caen Hill flight of locks at Devizes. Sixteen of the little beauties in this section with another six before and seven after when traveling East to West.<br />
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And seen from a bit further away on one of walks with The Boys.<br />
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And did you know that the pumps that feed the summit of the locks are solar powered.<br />
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Hang on, what's this, our youngest son has arrived for a few days with his family and friends. Well ain't that good timing as we've got a twenty nine lock ordeal ahead of us! Of course it wasn't planned, we just happened to get to the top of the flight the day they arrived. . . . honest . . . .<br />
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So it's The Caen Hill flight day<br />
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Our little man is keeping an eye on us.<br />
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Our sons friend Andy hadn't done locks before so he's obviously googling what to do.<br />
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All hands to the pump, well locks in this case as Nicky's on lock duty<br />
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And Dec's as well although our little man wonders why dad's all the way up there.<br />
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Certainly speeds things up when you've got four doing the locks instead of just one, in fact, we were catching up the couple in front quite quickly so they waited for us and then there were five doing the locks.<br />
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And then a peaceful colourful finish to the day.<br />
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The Boys do like their walks, but not when there's a cat about<br />
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They got past in the end though<br />
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With a water stop on the way.<br />
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And looking back at where we'd moored. How good is that, civilisation, who needs it.<br />
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It's a dog life being dragged out for walks all the time so time for a bit of rest and relaxation.<br />
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First signets we've seen this year.<br />
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Getting a bit close to a swan nest and a lot of noise and commotion there was to let us know he wasn't pleased with us.<br />
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So that brings us up to date with our travels and finds us moored below the locks at Seend Cleeve, one of the strangest named places we've come across, but there's no doubt a story behind it.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif; font-size: 15.4px;">Day 1384 in the Badger Sett Narrow boat - 2966</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman", times, freeserif, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"> miles, 1874 locks and 1486 cruising hours further on from when we started.</span>BINKS AND BENJIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01492649756421938491noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310391591871049276.post-32015975576258749852017-05-02T17:17:00.001+01:002017-05-02T17:17:53.417+01:00Kennet and Avon (Day 20)Hi there<br />
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Well we're on day 20 and Nicky's ticked off 55 of her 208 locks. We're about two days away from the Caen Hill flight that encompasses lock numbers 22 to 50 so that'll be a big chunk off her to-do-list until we double back and she'll have the pleasure of doing them a second time. Going downhill first that's always easier as you can just open all the paddles fully as opposed to locking up when a bit more time and care is needed.<br />
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So, what have we been up to. Well I think my last post was around Kintbury where we just happened upon a fuel boat selling 25kg of coal for a tenner that's not a bad price, so two of those came our way as temperatures were due to be dropping quite low.<br />
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What with the pounds being quite low with water and miles of crappy edges that could do with dredging we've not had great mooring places outside of recognised visitor moorings in the town's and villages that we tend to steer clear of. Not too bad normally, but not helped along here with locks being fairly close and every time a lock fills you go over a few moor degrees and the ropes start creaking when they take more weight of the boat!<br />
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Moored up on one of the said mooring spots with the back further away from the bank than it looks in the picture so it's gang planks on the front.<br />
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The boys usually struggle with the planks as they're a bit scared walking up in the air and tend to half walk, jump, leap, scrabble and how they've not gone in yet I don't know. Now we've been on the boat now for four and a half years and I've only just thought of putting some mats on the planks and hey presto<br />
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It's easy peasy with even time for a cursory look around enroute.<br />
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Easier mooring near Crofton's steam powered pump house that's still used today to get water from this level to the summit about five locks up.<br />
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The water coming up from the well below and<br />
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the boilers making it all work. It was a bit of a chilly day and this was certainly the best place to be.<br />
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A few more days on and moored near Pewsey where we stopped for two nights as there were some good walks around. Day one walk was off to see the chalk horse of Pewsey that you might be able to make out in the centre of the picture above, but if not<br />
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Then it's another day and another walk, this time in the opposite direction to see the Giants Grave and yes this one's up a hill as well.<br />
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Good views from the top though of the Vale of Pewsey so worth the walk.<br />
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Our destination ahead, the Giants Grave.<br />
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Remembered to bring some water along for The Boys as it was a warm sunny day so Binks having a drink<br />
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And then Benji not wanting to miss out.<br />
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Easier going down than up 😁<br />
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Not sure why, but not many boaty pictures this time so will try to do better next time.<br />
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Day 1375 in the Badger Sett Narrow boat - 2949 miles, 1840 locks and 1475 cruising hours further on from when we started.<br />
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BINKS AND BENJIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01492649756421938491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310391591871049276.post-44384083541502218652017-04-25T17:57:00.002+01:002017-04-25T17:57:59.708+01:00Kennet and Avon (Day 13)Hi there<br />
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Well it's day 13 on the Kennet and Avon Canal and Nicky's done 32 of her 104 locks so she's 31% there, although put another way as we'll be doubling back, she's only 32 into 208 and that's only 15% down 85% to go. That said though, it's not actually as bad as it sounds as we've taken 13 days to do the 32 locks so a manageable two and a half locks a day. Whilst we don't like having to keep to schedules, we need to be around Bristol at the end of May so ticking over at about an hour and a half cruising hours a day that should see us there there or thereabouts on time.<br />
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Anyway, back to our cruising of the last few weeks.<br />
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We've been on the go now for four and a half years and still coming across new things. Above is a turf lock that's a brick lock as you'd expect on the other side and just open sided to the bank on this side with some metal work to keep you in the lock chamber.<br />
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Then another day and another different lock, I suppose you could call this a scollop sided lock? And we've managed to pick up a travelling companion enroute.<br />
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In our mini convoy of two for a few miles and luckily in position two so they've got the honour of stopping the traffic to open and close the swing bridge.<br />
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A nice old mill that we weren't quite quick enough with the camera (well I say we, but as usual my blog would be lost without Nicky snapping away) as the shot from an earlier angle would have shown it off far better.<br />
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The Boys looking to where they'd prefer to be.<br />
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Another day and another cruising companion, well for a couple of miles that is until a nice spot to moor appears.<br />
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Then after mooring up it's out with The Boys for their couple hour walk and remember what I said about the weather, well it's nice enough for shorts, how about that for legs-n-boots and you don't even have to pay a subscription !!!<br />
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Decided to walk The Boys before moving today and came across Greenham Common. Not sure if it's the same one that used to be in the news way back to do with the American Airforce and bombs or something, but no sign of bunkers or anything so maybe not.<br />
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And how about this for a sculpture at the lock coming into Newbury.<br />
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Not a sculpture this time, but the real thing on a lock gate.<br />
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We do like a mooring with a view, but maybe best not to moor in a lock.<br />
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Would have been perfect though and unfortunately by the time we'd cleared the lock landing the view was no more so moved on a little further.<br />
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This was Nicky's 29th lock if I remember correctly.<br />
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And the last one for today and had planned to moor just round the corner until we found it was to shallow and had to go a bit further so just on the visitors mooring at Hungerford as I write this.<br />
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And today is Bink's 9th birthday so it was birthday cake time, well for the humans anyway, it was . . .<br />
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Doggy birthday treats for The Boys.<br />
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That brings us up to date on the cruising front and on the motorhome front, we've actually come across a few dealerships and had a look to try and narrow down what we're looking for or think we're looking for!!! It's like the old days when narrowboat hunting was top of the agenda.<br />
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Well that's us for now,<br />
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And so in signing off,<br />
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Day 1368 in the Badger Sett Narrow boat - 2937 miles, 1817 locks and 1464 cruising hours further on from when we started.<br />
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<br />BINKS AND BENJIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01492649756421938491noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310391591871049276.post-46555549339399739202017-04-17T19:58:00.001+01:002017-04-17T19:58:52.142+01:00The Tidal ThamesHi There<br />
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I've just put up another page tab on our blog for our trip on The Tidal Thames in February.<br />
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<br />BINKS AND BENJIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01492649756421938491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310391591871049276.post-31068560188959220262017-04-13T18:56:00.001+01:002017-04-13T18:56:34.451+01:00The Kennet and Avon CanalHi there<br />
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Well day one of Nicky's challenge and it's 3 locks down and 205 to go.<br />
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First lock of the day and a different sort of paddle gear to normal.<br />
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Yup, she's sussed it and she's off. . . .<br />
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Bit of manual work needed after the easy button operated locks of The Thames.<br />
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Until you get a traffic light! and of course it just has to be red<br />
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First time on The Kennet and Avon Canal for us and if it's as nice as it's been so far then we should have a good few months.<br />
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Day 1356 in the Badger Sett Narrow boat - 2912 miles, 1788 locks and 1447 cruising hours further on from when we started.<br />
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<br />BINKS AND BENJIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01492649756421938491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310391591871049276.post-21920356058567524702017-04-12T19:53:00.001+01:002017-04-12T19:53:50.257+01:00Bourne End to Reading and the stresses of boating !Hi there.<br />
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Oh for a stress free life, but even as simple a life as boating is, it still throws up its dilemmas and decisions. One of the worst being 'where are we going to be in ......' . Where are we going to be tomorrow, i can cope with, where are we going to be next week, getting harder and any further on from that, well, I couldn't even stab at a county. I'm sure many of you have had the same question asked of you and the 'but how don't you know where you'll be next month!!!'<br />
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Well this time our dilemma and decisions are more of our own causing and based around two events. Firstly, Nicky's decided to do a half marathon (she's never run before) back home in Jersey the middle of June. As I'll be staying home alone with The Boys we haven't got the added headache of where to moor the boat, but we still need to sort out flights from either Southampton, Bristol or East Midland airport, BUT, where will we be. Then, secondly, we've got some friends hiring a boat to do the Avon Ring at the end of July for a fortnight so we've then got to decide how to get from wherever we are when Nicky flies back to Stratford on Avon without having to doodle around for weeks or going like a bat of hell to get there.<br />
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So to cut a long story short, for those that haven't got bored by my ramblings and gone away already, is that we've deviated from our original plan of doing The Thames and are now turning left onto The Kennet and Avon Canal and off towards Bristol where we've booked Nicky's flights from. So if nothing else, we know where where we'll be for the next eight weeks, well, sort of. Then it'll be a home alone week for me followed by a six week trip back along The Kennet and Avon Canal, do The Thames that we haven't done yet from Reading to Lechlade, backtrack to Oxford, up The Oxford Canal, along a bit of The Grand Union Canal then down The Stratford on Avon Canal to Stratford to then do a fortnight around The Avon Ring. Oh the best made plans, watch this space....<br />
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In my posts over the next few months I'll be starting off with a countdown for Nicky, nothing to do with her half marathon though, just the number of locks on the Kennet and Avon canal she'll be doing (there and back). So at this point she's on 0 done 208 to go (chuckle chuckle).<br />
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Anyways, less of the writing and some pictures of our recent travels between Bourne End and Reading.<br />
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Our Bourne End mooring for the day with a walk forward to Marlow to check mooring options, about two and a bit hours and then a walk round the lake before setting off the next morning.<br />
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And that's us off for just a quick half hour journey to Marlow.<br />
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Moored up below the lock at Marlow for the night.<br />
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Then an even shorter hop the next morning with a lock in our favour, a lock keeper on duty and about a half mile journey to moor at Marlow.<br />
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Nicky with a day in the office doing the dreaded tax forms,<br />
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<span id="goog_462247447"></span><span id="goog_462247448"></span>And me, well I'm Benji's cushion for the day who still thinks he's a puppy and not a twenty something kilo dog.<br />
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Then once we've had our fun! it's time for The Boys walk<br />
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Very photogenic aren't they<br />
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And what we're assuming are Red Kites, are we right?<br />
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The romantic in Nicky, who credit goes to fot all the photos I use.<br />
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Moving every day at the moment, but only another half hour trip this time onto Hurley where some friends are coming down to meet us so a non moving day tomorrow, yippee.<br />
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Our friends, Chris and Maralyn. Chris fitted our solar panels about four and a half years ago now and stays in touch. One of our best ever purchases and paid for themselves about two years ago. Just not sure whether to sell them with the boat or transfer them onto our motorhome next year. Oh, decisions decisions.<br />
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On the move after our day of rest<br />
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Just passing through Henley on Thames as we've stopped there a few times before on holidays and running the cupboards and fridge down for our shop at Reading.<br />
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Getting close to the lock at Sonning<br />
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And moored up for the night just above it.<br />
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And of course, Nicky does like a sunset. Just a shame she's a sleepyhead in the morning and misses the sun rises.<br />
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And that's just about us, moved onto Reading this morning and moored just before the junction with the Kennet and Avon Canal that'll be our home canal until about the beginning of July I'd guess.<br />
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Day 1355 in the Badger Sett Narrow boat - 2909 miles, 1785 locks and 1445 cruising hours further on from when we started.<br />
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A quick walk for The Boys first though who managed to photo bomb Nicky's shot of Windsor Castle.<br />
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And again!<br />
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Not this time though. . . .<br />
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No rest for the wicked at our next mooring spot through as a bit of spring cleaning, or in this case rubbing down and painting, was on the agenda.<br />
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Binks snoozing outside and<br />
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Benji looking very comfy in the cratch.<br />
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Back on the move after two days of decorating<br />
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Heading through Maidenhead after making a pit stop at Lidl for the weekly shop on the way past<br />
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And moored up for the night at a far more cost effective £0 per night 😀<br />
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Currently at Bourne End, having walked forward to Marlow to check out the mooring spots for tomorrow. Certainly won't be one of the £12 a night ones though, prefer to just chuck the anchor overboard and bob about for the night!<br />
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Day 1347 in the Badger Sett Narrow boat - 2896 miles, 1779 locks and 1439 cruising hours further on from when we started.<br />
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Sunset on the mooring at Hampton Court<br />
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First bit of new territory for us since February, all of about five minutes above Sheperton Lock<br />
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A walk with Aaron (and Nicky of course, but someones got to take the photos for my blog)<br />
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A warm sunny day and a river to play in, perfect for The Boys<br />
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A well earned rest<br />
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BINKS AND BENJIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01492649756421938491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310391591871049276.post-63032222737713363392017-03-22T12:02:00.000+00:002017-03-22T12:02:15.272+00:00We're still around and The Ribble LinkWhen we set off on our travels around the waterways network, the plan was for it to take about two to three years. We now find ourselves four and a half years later on and our somewhat longer than expected journey is still not complete, but we're slowly getting there as you'll see by our map.<br />
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Currently down on The River Thames, Hampton Court to be exact, with red being the colour for 2017.<br />
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A nice photo of our home, Badger Sett that is not Hampton Court, that I borrowed from Carol and George's Still Rockin blog.<br />
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A while ago now I saw a phrase on a blog somewhere (Can't remember whose so I can't pay them credit) but it stuck in mind and went something like 'Days without a name and time without a number' and pretty much sums up our life aboard these past few years. Terrible when you have to date and sign something though as I even struggle with a month and a year sometimes yet alone a time and a day!<br />
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Anyway, to ease myself back into this blogging lark I thought I'd just cheat a bit and start by putting on a couple of extra pages with photos of some of our 'Adventures' . The first one being The Ribble Link that we did way back in September 2013.BINKS AND BENJIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01492649756421938491noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310391591871049276.post-32927460144324569182015-09-06T10:13:00.001+01:002015-09-06T10:13:38.044+01:00Have you missed us?Hi There<br />
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It's been an embarrassing 4+ months since I last posted, how bad is that? The <strike>excuses</strike> reasons for this come in many shapes and forms.<br />
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There is the 'I can't find the time' one. . . but then I'm retired, get up (for some strange reason) about six in the morning whilst Nicky's banned from showing her face until nine so I can have my 'Me Time' so I don't think that one can really hold water.<br />
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There is the 'I struggle with my internet data usage'. . . which actually happens to be partly true. Our two year contracts with Three for our phone and 15g internet were up so we did contracts for another two years. Both came with 4G at no extra cost, what a bonus, not. Since then we've struggled with data, but each month we'd maybe have Skyped more, watched a bit more catch up TV and put it down to some other factors. Nicky kept saying maybe it's 4G, silly woman, what does she know, backtrack, clever girl, she was right. . . One month when we'd used up our 15G allowance we went and brought a 3G PAYG sim. Nicky at this time said that we'd really been struggling with data and the guy said that 4G does in fact use about 25% more data. So for the last few months we've fiddled about with some phone settings (stopping automatic updates, disabling both 4G and 3G and sticking to the basic internet access option, changing some settings in Facebook so videos don't automatically run and thinning out some of the rubbish that turns up as well as a few other bits and pieces) and on our 15G contract sim I simply took it out of the 4G modem that came with the new contract and put it back into the old 3G one. Consequentially, Nicky's not data watching/limiting what she does on a daily basis and I'm still sitting with about 9G of data and about twelve days to use it up.<br />
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Anyway, I digress, so back to my <strike>excuses</strike> reasons for being a bad blogger.<br />
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There is the 'Have we really done anything that'll make it an interesting blog and worth someones time reading'. . . this I think comes down to sometimes taking what we've got for granted. Coming up to having lived aboard now for three years and you sometimes forget to appreciate what you've got outside your window on a changing basis and the lifestyle that we're in the fortunate situation of being able to live. This comes home sometimes as hire boats wizz past, actually quick side issue about boats wizzing past, I actually find boat owners far worse than hire boats for cruising past faster than they politely should, you know the ones, the ones that find anything else better to look at that's not through the window your sitting at, but not all boat owners I hastily add. Quick side issue over and back onto This comes home sometimes as hire boats wizz past. . . and you think of the many hundreds of pounds they've parted with and a week later they pass you on the way back and we've probably only moved about three hours in that time! So whilst this is maybe a weak excuse for not blogging, there is some basis of fact and maybe our norm might be interesting to others.<br />
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Anyway, starting to get bored of making excuses now and believe me there are more, but I think I'll just accept that I'm a bad blogger that 'could do better' and that sounds like something out of one of my school reports!<br />
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So then, onto some boaty bits. My last blog found us just outside of Walsall on the Birmingham Canal Navigations. Since then we've moved onto and down the Staffordshire and Worcester canal to Worcester. Doubled back a bit and went up the Droitwich Canal, up the Worcester and Birmingham Canal to Birmingham, out of Birmingham on the Birmingham and Fazeley canal, the Coventry canal, the Trent and Mersey canal, the Bridgwater canal and onto the Leeds and Liverpool canal where we find ourselves at the summit by foulridge. And in the 127 days that this journey has taken us, we've cruised for 165 hours, covered 306 miles during which time we've (Nicky) has worked 283 locks. So in terms of lock miles, (miles+locks divided by hours) that's 3.56 per hour that's about the norm.<br />
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Some Graffiti, or is it canal art, on the Staffordshire and Worcester canal.<br />
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A lock pound overflow, different to what you'd normally see.<br />
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Just onto the River Severn at Stourport<br />
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Worcester Cathedral.<br />
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Now, we had A bit of excitement in this lock on the River Severn as the side of our boat caught on the lip of some bricks and as the water went down the boat didn't and tipped at a worrying angle. The lock keeper hit the emergency stop just as we slipped off the lip and we certainly rocked and rolled quite a but before settling down. Only one breakage inside, a vase, but loads of stuff to put back on shelves and in cupboards. As you'll see from the next photo, there's not much to get caught on is there!<br />
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On the Droitwich Canal and encountering the lowest tunnel so far. As we were coming up to it a guy said that the marker board for the tunnel height is very accurate, but as the chimney only just nudged it I knew we'd be alright, right?, no wrong, it is really a very accurate guage as our chimney found out.<br />
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Time for blacking, so into the strops we go for lifting out.<br />
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Trying to teach The Boys to climb up the steps, but a bit steep so ended up carrying them up and down for the week we were out the water.<br />
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The annodes from a few years ago, plenty of life left in them so that's a cost saved.<br />
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And the business end of the boat.<br />
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Blacked and on the way. . .<br />
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Someone's homes got a bit wet.<br />
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In a tunnel on the way to Birmingham and the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel.<br />
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Gas Street basin in Birmingham where we stayed for a few nights. Binks woke us up one night, but whilst drifting back to sleep the boat seemed to be a bit rockier than usual. Yup, we'd been set a drift. Only the one mooring line though, Binks must have made them think twice about casting off both.<br />
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Back out in the country and time for a laze.<br />
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A fuel boat appears, how good is that.<br />
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As our eventual mission is to cover the entire network, we need to travel up all the dead ends knowing that we'll need to double back when we get there.<br />
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All's not bad though when you come across places like Anglesey Wharf at the end of the line, but that's to do with the blog title so needed to slip it in first and will just quickly rewind a few days to get us to where we are.<br />
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Firstly, I'm pleased to say that we're a bit more back with our normal travelling regime and in the last ten days we've cruised for just five hours and the weather has been glorious. Well glorious as in sunny days, but mid range temperatures and a bit of a breeze has made it a bit cool at times, but hey, anything but rain is good.<br />
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We've only really just started out on the Birmingham Canal Navigation's (BCN) part of the network and whilst there has been some built up parts that we've just traveled to get through, there have been some nice scenic places to moor inbetween. I think I read somewhere that these navigation's cover a hundred or so miles of canals so should keep us interested for a few months yet and so far so good.<br />
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One of the walks we found was around Hay Head Woods at Longwood Junction on the Rushall Canal that seemed to cover a fair old area and many of the paths (as seen here) were lined with Wild Garlic.<br />
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Just up from here was another nice place to walk around called Park Lime Pits and . . . .<br />
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'Mums pointing that photo thingy thing at us again so make sure you sit up straight and look forward or we'll be here for ages'<br />
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And Benji ready for a snooze after a hard days <strike>work</strike> walk.<br />
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So another day another mooring spot that found us next to Clayhanger Common near Brownhills, although we were a little cautious as we were a bit closer to civilisation with quite a bit of passers by so only did a quick half hour walk around this one before setting off the next morning.<br />
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Now back to Anglesey Wharf. Coming into the basin it didn't look like there was going to be anywhere to moor, and the approaching canal didn't unfortunately offer up any particularly special spots so we thought it would just be a quick stopover.<br />
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The only possible place in the basin was in the water inlet from the reservoir above that you can see to the left of the house in this picture, but we weren't sure if it would be deep enough.<br />
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Luckily the water was though so we were happy to reverse back slowly whilst being able to keep an eye on the depth of water.<br />
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It was only when we were almost up to the (possible) mooring point that we saw mooring rings so hopes increased and yes . . .<br />
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enough water, so safely in for the next few days.<br />
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Looking down from the dam above with . . . .<br />
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the reservoir called Chasewater behind. This took about an hour and a half to walk round and found adjacent to this was Chasewater Country Park<br />
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Deers.<br />
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We've also had a birthday recently as Binks reached the grand old age of seven. Birthday presents came in the form of a bone type treat that Nicky brought and a boiled egg, the latter being one of his favourite treats although these are few and far between.<br />
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And yet more good walks in the shape of Persall Common this time.<br />
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So we're just on the outskirts of Walsall now and heading towards Wolverhampton that we'll do over the next three or four days as there seems to be some recommended safe mooring spots along the way so we shouldn't have to do it in one hit. We are then apparently coming across the Wolverhampton 21 (according to a chap we were talking to whilst doing a Tesco shop at Brownhills) that's a flight of 21 locks in the space of two miles, but that was on page 50 and we hadn't looked that far ahead so Nicky, there's some exercise heading your way ☺.<br />
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Well it's fast forward time as the more upto date I think I'm getting with my blog the further back I seem to get. So here we go, we're setting off from Stratford-on-Avon on a whirlwind trip of our last 26 days during which time we've cruised for 38 hours, yes we've busted all our records and have averaged an hour and a half a day compared to our more leisurely hour a day, during which time we've covered 61 miles. This trip has been a bit lock intensive though, having done 101 of the buggers, although largely singles and quite a few on close flights that speed things up. In terms of lock miles per hour we've managed 4.26 compared to a normally recognised 3 so we've cracked on pretty well.<br />
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For the non boaters out there, a lock mile in cruising terms gives you an idea of how long a stretch of canal will take you to travel along it by simply adding the number of miles and the number of locks then dividing that number by three. So a simple example (so I don't need a calculator) would be that if you planned to travel for 3 miles during which you'd encounter 9 locks then you'd do 3+9 = 12 and divide that by the rule of thumb 3 lock miles per hour 12 / 3 = 4. The 4 being the number of hours you'd expect to take to travel those three miles and nine locks. Just having checked my log, our average annual lock miles since we set off on our journey in 2012 have been 2.7 in 2012, 2.7 in 2013, 3.0 in 2014 and 3.9 so far this year.<br />
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From the above you'd have now learned three things. Firstly lock miles, secondly that I can do 3+9 / 12 without a calculator and thirdly and more importantly is why I can't get up to date with my blog as at the top of the page I was promising to set off from Stratford-on-Avon on a whirlwind trip, yet I don't even seem to have got as far as casting off!<br />
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Anyway, we're off this time (honest) and a few pictures from our trip up up the Stratford-on-Avon Canal.<br />
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Pretty distinctive bridges on this canal and although you probably can't see by the photo, both halves of the bridge raise up (or would have done in the olden days) that I've not seen elsewhere on the system we've been on so far.<br />
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Me on solo lock duty as David Baily's at it again. Shouldn't complain though as my blog starts out with Nicky's camera to choose the photo's around which I then base it.<br />
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Oh bloody hell, I've got to make a decision, don't like them, but hang on, memory to the rescue, we've been to Warwick, so problem averted, it's left to Birmingham for us and up the Grand Union Canal.<br />
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We'd moored on the outskirts of Birmingham with the plan of travelling through it in the one day and some eight hours of cruising and no, I wasnt looking forward to the prospect of a normal weeks worth of travelling in one day. Luckily spoke to a boater though who had just come through and told us about a 'secure' Canal and River Trust mooring point next to Star City near Salford Junction. 'Secure' as in a chest high gate that some lads vaulted over that evening and hung around, but we weren't leaving the boat unattended so no problem there. The Boys gave them a good old barking at and whereas we'd normally tell them to keep quiet we just let them get on with it. It was a useful stopover though that split our travelling into a five and a three hour day that was a bit better.<br />
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So we're now on the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal and aiming for Fazeley junction that we've passed through before but on another canal so this will be an up and double back trip.<br />
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Looks like someone didn't have enough land, so built an extension, over the canal.<br />
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Through we go.<br />
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Whilst on this section of canal up to Fazeley there were quiet a few nice mooring points, the best of which was next to Kingsbury Water Park where there was hundreds of acres of lakes and plenty of walks for The Boys.<br />
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So fast forwarding as promised and we've made it to Fazeley Junction, doubled back and now back into Birmingham<br />
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We're on The Birmingham Canal Navigation's (BCN) now and oh bloody hell, what's with the signs and multiple multiple choice at that this time. Don't even recognise the names, just know we're keeping to the right so I guess we're going to Perry Bar and Tipton I suppose!<br />
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Slight digress here, although a bit related to this last point point of not knowing where I'm going, but a chap asked me when I was in a lock the other day where I was going. I thought about this question and simply pointed ahead of me and said 'that way'. Clearly not content with that as an answer he persevered and asked, but where are you aiming for. There was nothing for it, I was under pressure now, clearly had to come up with something better than 'that way' so consulted the Nicholson's Guide, found where I was, had a look what was ahead and said confidently 'Page 59' and that was the end of that conversation!<br />
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Digress over and now travelling under Spaghetti Junction as most have never seen it before.<br />
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And a final picture for this blog, travelling up the Rushall Canal section on the BCN having negotiated seven of the nine locks of this section with no or limited water and planning to moor up above the final two locks. And moor up we have for the last four days with fields with horses on one side and a yellow carpet of rapeseed on the other.</div>
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BINKS AND BENJIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01492649756421938491noreply@blogger.com2Longwood Junction nr Walsall52.586214 -1.982919000000038152.509049999999995 -2.144280500000038 52.663378 -1.8215575000000381tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310391591871049276.post-35434211276957500122015-04-19T08:24:00.001+01:002015-04-19T08:24:21.359+01:00The River AvonHi There<br />
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Well after the 'excitement' (aka A mishap and a close shave in my previous post) of our day travelling upto Tewkesbury and onto the River Avon, let's hope we have a nice uneventful spell.<br />
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Firstly some news for you, Nicky's leaving me, but the worst of it is that she's only going back home for a holiday and will be back . . . . Therefore, we want to be off the river before she goes so we are making a pretty quick dash to Stratford-on-Avon. Well I say a dash, but we've still got two weeks to do forty-two miles, but a dash it is in our book based on our normal travel regime. The River Avon isn't part of the Canal and River Trust so we needed to get an additional licence to travel on this waterway, the cost of which differs for varying periods and we opted for the two week one at £60 which I didn't think was too bad. A word of caution though, if you travel outside of the season then none of the sanitary points are open, although we did luckily find one midway that seemed to be getting ready for the season so managed to sort ourselves out. The thing I would recommend though is purchasing a little booklet that they do, about £4.00 I think it was, that tells you where the mooring places are, a bit about the places on the way, but probably more important, was the navigation notes about shallows, bridges, and diagrams of locks, the approach route, weirs and their flows all of which were useful.<br />
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Now I have to admit that we weren't sort of looking forward to the River Avon as we hadn't been too keen on the small stretch of the river Severn that we'd done (Worcester to Gloucester) as recognised/safe mooring points were sparce and resulted in quite long travel days and therefore missing out on a lot of the surrounding area that you just end up cruising past. I have to say though that it didn't probably help that the weather was pretty windy and wet as these made it seem a lot bleaker than maybe it would on a summers day. Well be doing the upper part of the River Severn later on in the year though so watch this space.<br />
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But back onto the River Avon and concerns rapidly disappeared as moorings were frequent and nice as well.<br />
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Weather wise, pretty much couldn't have been better as you'll see by the photos, with only a few overcast days and not much rain about either.<br />
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Now you'll remember above that we were hoping for a nice 'uneventful' spell, but that wasn't to be. For the boaters of you out there, particually the all year rounders, you'll have the Stove going 24/7 as your main source of heat. It therefore becomes a problem when you manage to break the glass door and won't be able to use it until fixed. How I managed to do it I'm still not sure as I open and close it many times a day, but somehow this time I must have let the handle drop against the door a bit harder than usual or it had swung round and actually tapped the glass, but the end result was it was cracked. Not just a little crack though, I'd managed to do it in style and the pane was split into about four pieces although luckily still held in place by the glass clips so the fire and smoke was at least still contained.<br />
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I managed to find a stove place on the Internet that was in our general area and whilst they didn't do glass they did recommend a glass place in Evesham where we had just travelled up from the day before so at least it was close(ish) by. We were also lucky that we were moored at Bidford-on-Avon (the picture above as it happens) and whilst I'd been on the phone to the glass place, Nicky was on the Internet and found that a bus was leaving in about ten minutes to Evesham.<br />
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So off I went, caught the bus, found the glass place, got my two pieces of glass (got a spare piece whilst I was at it as we'd been ideally placed and managed to sort the problem quite easily this time, but should it happen again and we were miles away from anywhere then it would be another story). Also managed to get some glass seal tape from a chandlers as I wasn't sure what condition the existing one would be in and headed back to the boat. Changed the glass, old seal was okay(ish) and would have seen us through, but changed it nonetheless and whilst the stove was cold took out the firebricks and gave the chimney s sweep as well. So to cut a rather long story quickly short, about five hours after my accident, the stove was again alight and heating up the boat.<br />
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Now whilst our stove is our primary source of heat, we do have diesel fired central heating and radiators in the boat, so we wouldn't have exactly gone cold although the stove is better as its a dryer heat compared to the rads. There's a cost implication as well as the diesel burner uses about half a litre an hour and as we work on the basis of a litre costing about £1.20 then that's 60p for an hours heat that doesn't sound too bad said like that, but try that for eighteen hours a day (£10.80) seven days a week (£75.60) and compare that to our stove with a combination of wood and coal that comes in at somewhere between £17 and £23 a week and there's good reason to steer clear of it as much as you can.<br />
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So a happy ending and the peace of mind of having a ready to hand spare should I manage to break it again sometime!<br />
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So it's the next day and we're setting off from Bidford-on-Avon and negotiating the archway through the bridge (complete with arrows so you go through the right one) and whilst it might look a bit tight, we saw a wide beam come through the day before so our mere 6' 10" beam will get through fine.</div>
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As I mentioned above, we were lucky with the weather, particularly the rain and all the water level markers along the way were on green. Green being fine to travel, Orange be aware and look for somewhere to moor up and Red just dont move. That said though, you still had to be wary of the weirs even at these safe water levels and it didn't take much if you got distracted to find yourself going where the flow wanted you to be.</div>
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Okay, so we almost made it without incident and we're about two days travel away from Stratford-on-Avon and it rained one night, pretty hard and pretty long, but just a nights worth but enough to put the water into the Orange section of the level the next morning. So we thought we'd just take The Boys for their walk and see what it was like in a few hours time. A few hours time equals Red, so I guess were not moving today. </div>
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It was back into the orange (and dropping) the next morning so we set off, but found it pretty hard going against the flow so moored up again after the next lock for the night where the level was well into the red. Now here's the thing that I find strange, the water level markers are placed in the river section below the locks, but not above so you set off when it looks okay, by the lower marker, to find the water above the lock is in the red 'once' you've travelled along that section. Fine if you're travelling down river, but clearly not up!</div>
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So having now lost a couple of days we needed to do the final stretch in one go to get us to Stratford-on-Avon in time to moor up and get Nicky on the train the next day. The river by this time was green markers all the way, but it just goes to show that one nights rain cost us two days so it's just as well it didn't rain longer or heavier.</div>
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Last weir and only one more lock and that'll be us tieing up for the day.</div>
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So we're now in Stratford-on-Avon, well I lie slightly as I'm still behind with my blog and were actually up on the Birmingham Canal Navigation's (Tame Valley Section) at the moment, but when we were in Stratford-on-Avon this was my home for nine days whilst Nicky went back to Jersey. </div>
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Whilst it's designated as a 48 hour mooring in the basin I'd contacted Canal and River Trust about staying on for an extended period and they kindly didn't have any objections so I was settled in a good location, close to shops and access to good walks for The Boys.</div>
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Well that's me for now, one more catch up blog should see me back on track and you fully up to date with us.</div>
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BINKS AND BENJIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01492649756421938491noreply@blogger.com2Witton, Tame Valley Canal (BCN)52.514517 -1.883369000000016121.825883499999996 -43.191963000000015 83.203150499999992 39.425224999999983tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310391591871049276.post-2018869166023734932015-04-03T09:23:00.002+01:002015-04-03T09:24:58.175+01:00A mishap and a close shaveHi There<br />
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Well, slowly but surely, I'm getting up to date with our meanderings.<br />
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The lift bridge into Gloucester Docks wouldn't be ready to open till 9 o'clock, after which the bridge operator come lock keeper would then let us out onto the River Severn so we could make our way back to Tewkesbury and onto the River Avon.<br />
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So, firstly 'The Mishap', or should I call it 'My Phones Dunking in Gloucester Docks' . . . . . . I'll just start off by setting the scene for you first.<br />
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There was a sanitary point right before the lift bridge, so we moved up from our previous nights mooring a few hundred yards back to empty the toilet cassettes (we've got three and as we don't move very far very often they are useful to have and we find that we don't have to travel in order to find a sanitary point, but can just sort ourselves out when we happen across them) get rid of the rubbish and top up with water. The water was the first thing in mind as we hadn't topped up for about nine days so it was going to take a while and we wanted to be filled up before the bridged opened, so I was in water filling tunnel vision mode as we moored up at the sanitary point. Nicky jumped off with the centre rope and secured that and I jumped off and secured the back rope. Now there is a bit of a clue here as to 'what happened next', anybody spotted it?<br />
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So remember, I'm in water filling tunnel vision mode here, which is probably an evolution based thing as apparently us blokes can't multitask although I always look at it as me doing one thing well whilst Nicky does multiple things badly. Take making a cuppa for example, (I know I digress, but bear with me) I set out to make us a cupper and enter my 'cuppa making tunnel vision' mode and stand poised waiting for the kettle to boil before springing into action and completing the primary task in hand. Nicky on the other hand puts the kettle on and then multitasks and so in setting a number of parallel universe alternatives in addition to the real world task of just concentrating on my cuppa.<br />
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So parallel universe alternate one is that the kettle boils, starts whistling, starts screeching and eventually I run to put the kettle out of its misery. End result - I end up doing my own cuppa.<br />
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So parallel universe alternate two is that Nicky's multitasking is close to hand, which is good news for the kettle, my ears and the water successfully makes it into the cup, BUT along comes multitasking mode elsewhere resulting in parallel universe alternate two splitting into alternate three and alternate four.<br />
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Alternate three being the cup sits there until completion of multitasking mode. End result - I end up with a cold cuppa.<br />
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Alternate four being that I take over. End result - I end up doing my own cuppa.<br />
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So hopefully this goes someway to explaining this multitasking phenomenon and more importantly, why it doesn't work and therefore demonstrating why men are clearly superior in having managed to evolve into the beings we are.<br />
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Anyway, digress over, remember I'm in my water filling tunnel vision mode and the boats alongside, I've got the hose out, opened up the water tank, fitted the hose to the water point, turned it on, let the water run through for twenty seconds, leant into the boat to put the hose into the tank and then moved back onto the pontoon, onto the pontoon, onto the pontoon, bloody hell . . . . . where's the pontoon . . . . . splash.<br />
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The clue above for anybody who didn't spot it and I'll repeat it for readers ease 'Nicky jumped off with the centre rope and secured that and I jumped off and secured the back rope' . . . . . yup, the front rope hadn't been secured so as I'd leant into the boat to put the hose in the tank the momentum had caused the front of the boat to drift (unbeknown to me) out from the side and hence nothing to stand on when I stepped back and therefore the resulting splash.<br />
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So I'm now floundering in the water and struggling to get back in into the boat, Nicky's inside somewhere, the waters dredged quite deep in the docks and canal here unlike normal canals that you could just stand up in, here you can't, but luckily we've been wearing our lifejackets, but of course you don't bother putting on a life jacket when you're only moving a few hundred yards do you so here I am in the water in floundering mode minus life jacket. Luckily Nicky then came out and with much screaming, concern and rushing to my rescue - NOT (would have done if it had been one of The Boys that had fallen in) she checked her makeup, flicked her hair, totted towards me with a look of 'are you meant to be in the water ' before finally grabbing a handful of my jeans and giving me a wedgie in the process of rescuing me and dragging me up onto the pontoon.<br />
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Now I know this has dragged on a bit and you may have forgotten by now, but what's this got to do with 'The Mishap aka My Phones Dunking in Gloucester Docks' , well simple really, the phone was in my pocket and still lives to tell the tale after being opened up and dried out.<br />
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The title of this blog was 'A mishap and a close shave' and don't be lulled into a false sense of security thinking that that's all over and done with, no, the close shave is yet to come. . . . . .<br />
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So moving swiftly on, I'm now dried and changed, everything is ship shape, I've got my life jacket on . . . the lift bridge opens, we move through into the Docks, into and through the lock and we're onto the River Severn and heading for Tewkesbury. Not a very nice day though, very windy, pretty much head and side on all the way, the water level was quite high and close to its mark that would have closed the river to boating so we've got a strong flow to contend with, but we're on our way nonetheless.<br />
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Here's a picture (yippee I hear you say, a photo at last) of the trip up and whilst you can see the water is quite choppy, it doesn't probably do it justice as to how rough it really felt. We did the trip down from Tewkesbury to Gloucester in two and a half hours, this return journey took us four, although all things considered, pretty good I suppose.<br />
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So, the end is in sight, we've gone through the last lock on the River Severn and we're moored up on the landing stage at the Tewkesbury lock that'll take us onto the River Avon. The lock keepers at lunch so its cuppa time, can't remember whether I bit the bullet and did it myself though or risked Nicky's multitasking alternate universe mode, but I remember enjoying the end result.</div>
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I thought the best plan of action would therefore be to go past the lock, give the engine a bit of wellie whilst hard over to try and bring the back out against the wind, that would result in the front coming round and the boat then being broadside to the flow of the River Avon and drifting sideways(ish) back towards the lock and then trying to judge when and how fast to go forward to get into the lock so I don't get there too early or even worse, miss it altogether and in the back of mind I'm thinking I'm a bloke who can't multitask!</div>
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So as to the 'close shave', well the problem was that the screws holding the gear/throttle leaver in place had vibrated loose over several years and when I'd put the engine into neutral whilst going into the lock, it had decided to pop out that bit further so that I couldn't re-ingage forward. Had I been in forward and couldn't get into neutral then I'd have had a good bash (sorry for the pun) at breaking the lock keepers gate and probably worse, what if it had happened anytime in the previous four hours whilst heading up the River Servern as this would certainly been an anchors away blog title.</div>
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BINKS AND BENJIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01492649756421938491noreply@blogger.com4Lowsonford, Stratford on Avon Canal52.308996 -1.727250000000026421.823476 -43.035844000000026 82.794516 39.581343999999973tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310391591871049276.post-38431384578705162232015-03-20T10:28:00.001+00:002015-03-20T10:28:18.238+00:00Solar EclipseHi There<br />
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Just a quickie.<br />
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Turned out not to be the best conditions to take a photo of this mornings solar eclipse, well with my little camera anyway.<br />
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But, as luck would have it, there wasn't much wind about so the water was fairly still and the eclipse's reflection was in the water right outside the window that made it photographically possible for me.<br />
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BINKS AND BENJIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01492649756421938491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310391591871049276.post-77529204417457810882015-03-19T11:09:00.001+00:002015-03-19T11:09:26.531+00:00Gloucester and Sharpness CanalHi There<br />
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Still playing catch up on my blog, so this one brings us to about three weeks ago.<br />
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We'd booked the River Severn Upper Lode lock keeper for ten o'clock on the Thursday, but received a call back putting us back an hour as there was a spring tide (between Tewkesbury and Gloucester Docks is tidal) that day. The River Avon lock keeper also advised us to hold back another hour once we'd gone through so we weren't travelling with too fast a current.<br />
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The tide was just on the turn as we went through the lock so moored up at a water point about ten minutes downstream. Having moored up, filled up with water and had a cuppa only left us with about ten minutes before we were due to set off.<br />
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It was a cold, windy and wet day, but whilst we've been on The Severn we've been travelling with the pram hood (Our stern cover) up so I was at least kept dry. Happier to travel without the sides on though in strong winds so it wasn't on overly pleasant trip down. The twelve mile journey took us about two and a half hours and with the pleasure of a 20mph+ side wind for the duration made it one of those journeys where you just want to get where you're going. As we approached Gloucester Docks you could clearly see the high water mark on the trees and it had dropped by about five foot from its high, so I think the delayed start and topping up with water was no doubt the right thing to have done.<br />
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Moored up here in Gloucester Docks and . . .<br />
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Our view out of the window and wouldn't you know it, not a breath of wind the day after we travelled . . . . . typical!<br />
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Not that you can actually see it, but we put simple secondary double glazing on the inside of our windows this year. Simply a sheet of plastic that you cut to size, stick it to the window frame with double sided sticky tape and use the heat of a hair dryer to make the plastic go taut to get rid of any wrinkles. Cost about five or six quid from Wilkinsons, but what a difference it makes. We've got a thermometer that we keep on the shelf between the dinette and kitchen all year round and tend to glance at it on a daily basis. I would say that the overnight temperature in the boat is on average about five to eight degrees warmer than I'd normally expect it to be so we'll be getting another packet for next year as soon as we come across another Wilkinson's shop.<br />
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Nicky had found out about a guided tour the next day of an excavated section from Roman times that turned out to be outside/under the Boots store. From the precinct you can look into part of it through a glass panel set into the paved precinct, but extends further under the building. It was quite interesting really, complete with Roman soldier as the tour guide.<br />
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This was a section of the city wall built by The Romans.<br />
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And a horse pool where they used to walk the horses in to wash them. Apparently they also used to submerge the carts as well so that the wood joints wouldn't dry out and cause the cart to fall apart. The lighter area in the far left of the photo is from the daylight coming through from the glass section set into the precinct. It's certainly worth a visit and is arranged through the Gloucester museum if its open at the time.<br />
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Gloucester Docks is the start of the Gloucester and Sharpness canal and whilst the swing bridges along it are all manned, that saves the hassel of having to do them ourselves, the downside is that as with the locks, they are closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays so we had to plan our trip down to Sharpness and back with that in mind.<br />
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Had a bit of a bonanza on the way down in the form of some wood piles . . .<br />
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The upside was a good old stock up, the downside was that it took me three hours to cut and split it and the other upside is that we're only just about to finish it now so we've had about three weeks worth of daytime/evening heat for our efforts.<br />
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You might just be able to see Badger Sett to the centre/right of this picture just down from the tower and to the left is The Severn Estuary. It is possible to actually travel down the River Severn in a narrowboat from Sharpness and gain access to The Kennet and Avon Canal that is something we plan to do, but not a part of our immediate plans so it's doubling back to Gloucester Docks for us on this trip.</div>
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There is a designated site of special interest next to the canal at Sharpness in the shape of various boats and barges. In an attempt to manage the erosion of the Severn Estuary, a number of vessels were run aground in the early to mid 1900's and left to fill up with silt and become a part of the banks structure.</div>
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It was then a hightail it back to Gloucester Docks once the swing bridges opened up again on the Thursday so that we could get through the locks on the River Severn before they closed on the Monday.</div>
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It was a pretty chilly time on this canal and perminantly windy (that wasn't helped by the canals exposed nature) and didnt help the chill factor. That coupled with needing to travel more often than we usually do so as to not get stuck more than necessary by the bridge/lock closures on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, made it not one our most favourite canals, but one that we will visit again when we set out on our Severn Estuary expedition one day.</div>
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Well another month has past since my last post and that was only a roundup of 2014 so I've left you all really lacking on what we've been upto.</div>
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The first month or so from when we returned to the boat in January was a bit of a drag as work we'd asked to be done on the boat whilst we'd been away hadn't been so we had a two week delay sitting in the marina. Not all bad though, as we had the comfort of water on the jetty, electric hookup, and an elson point so we had a few weeks without having to consider life's essentials had we been out and about on the canal.</div>
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The plan had been to head up to Birmingham as the flight of locks at Tardebigge were closed, but having the two week delay changed our minds and we headed south instead. We managed to get through the flight a few days early as it turned out that they weren't closed anyway, but then got held up by an overrun on work taking place on Astwood flight instead.</div>
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Throw into the mix a number of below zero nights further added to our slow progress by another ten days or so as we were iced in on and off over the next few weeks.</div>
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Well and truely back on the move now though having travelled through Worcester and onto The River Severn where life jackets, pet floats (aka life jackets for The Boys) and anchor all got brought out and ready for use.</div>
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Moored here at Upton-on-Severn with the water level pleasantly low and therefore not much flow.</div>
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You'll notice that we are moored on a floating pontoon and you can see by the pictures just how far it can ride up (see the upright poles that the pontoon is attached to).<br />
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Just three other photos to put the potential rise in the rivers water level into context. If you look at the wall in the centre of this picture, you'll see that there is a flood gate that can be closed and the water level clearly comes higher than the wall as its height has been increased by a glass barrier.<br />
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The aforementioned flood gate on the left and additional glass barrier on top of the wall for added height.<br />
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And looking down to where the water level currently is. Its hard to imagine the volume of water that must be present to increase the rivers height so much and we just hope it doesn't rain too much whilst we're on it.<br />
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We came across some commercial traffic whilst on the river with these barges transferring ground between two points a few miles apart.<br />
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Pictured here being loaded<br />
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And then loaded and underway, notice how much lower it sits in the water when full.<br />
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We didn't realise until the Monday that the locks on the River Severn are closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays over the winter so made a pitstop at Tewkesbury on The River Avon. As the waterway was very quiet (aka we seemed to have it to ourselves as nobody else was travelling) the Avon lock keeper let us moor on the lock stage for a few nights whilst relieving us of £2 a night as we were on the Avon Navigation that is not covered by our Canal and River Trust licence, and £3 a night for the mooring. Not too bad I suppose and Tewkesbury turned out to be a really nice town with some good walks for The Boys.<br />
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I'll bring you fully upto date in installments, so as to not bore you all at once and will say by for now.<br />
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I've been meaning to get around to doing a review of our 2014 travels so here we go.</div>
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Firstly, our colour coded map of the waterway network with blue showing our travels in 2014. (Yellow = 2015, Green = 2013 and Pink= 2012)</div>
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We started off the year north of Wigan on The Leeds and Liverpool Canal and headed east with the intention of doing some of the north-eastern waterways. That was until we got to Burnley where a wall had collapsed into the canal and it had been blocked off and drained whilst the work to sort it was underway. Faced with the choice of waiting for a month for the canal to reopen, we decided to backtrack and our journey for the rest of the year went as follows:</div>
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Down the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, onto The Bridgewater Canal then down The Trent and Mersey Canal, cut across The Middlewhich Branch of the Shropshire Union Canal and then down The Shropshire Union Canal, east along The Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal and back onto The Trent and Mersey Canal to the end of it before doubling back to go down The Coventry Canal taking in The Ashby Canal on the way past then onto The North Oxford Canal cutting across a section of The Grand Union Canal before heading down as far as Oxford on the South Oxford Canal, then backtraking back up it to connect again with The Grand Union Canal and headed north then west up the Stratford and Avon Canal towards Birmingham and then, finally, down The Worcester and Birmingham Canal to Alvechurch where we moored up Badger Sett whilst we went back home to Jersey for Christmas.</div>
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So putting the above into some sort of context, it took us 307 days to cover the 630 miles and 341 locks. The journey took us 322 hours, so roughly one hours travelling a day at about 2mph. Our general cruising hours pretty much covered our electricity needs (charging up the batteries) as our solar panels looked after the rest with us only clocking up 27 hours of running the engine throughout the year to specifically charge up the batteries. Our solar panel setup cost us a little over £2,000 in January 2013, but will have paid for itself during the course of this year.</div>
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As to some other utilities, we emptied our cassette toilet 84 times, filled up with water 74 times, went through 5 bottles of gas and 34 bags of coal.</div>
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Who says I'm not a caring husband, I brought Nicky a washing machine didn't I?<br />
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Our wood store for the winter.<br />
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Bink's, one of The Boys on Tour, aka our travelling companions.<br />
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Trying to get a group shot with The Boys took some time.<br />
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The aforementioned collapsed wall and drained canal.<br />
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One of Nicky's sunsets.<br />
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My attempt at French bread.<br />
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Benji, the other Boy on tour with us.<br />
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Yup, another Nicky sunset and believe me there are many many more, but I've left it to two in this selection of photos.</div>
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All in a flap.<br />
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Nicky's attempt at Brioche (much better than my French bread)<br />
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The windmill near Napton junction on the South Oxford Canal.<br />
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Whose for the stocks then?<br />
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Okay, one more sunset, but the last one, honest.<br />
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Hitching a lift.<br />
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Last play of the day for The Boys.<br />
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Our solar panels, wouldn't be without them, could do with one more.<br />
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Back from a walk.<br />
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At the top of the Ashby Canal.<br />
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And that pretty much sums up 2014 for us.<br />
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As far as 2015 goes, we are currently just north of Worcester and heading down to Gloucester after which we will heading back up towards Birmingham as we plan to cover the network in and around The Midlands until about July/August way when we then hope to head up to the north-east again, baring of course any walls falling into canal obsticals!<br />
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Day 730 in the Badger Sett Narrowboat - 1409 miles, 796 locks and 740 cruising hours further on from when we started.BINKS AND BENJIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01492649756421938491noreply@blogger.com0Worcester, Worcester, UK52.193636 -2.2215750000000352.1157725 -2.3829365000000298 52.2714995 -2.06021350000003tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310391591871049276.post-66053914241627748372015-01-13T08:51:00.002+00:002015-01-13T08:51:34.902+00:00Winter Visitors<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A frosty morning and visitors at the hatch, mum, dad and a single signet going through the change to white. The signet is a really grumpy bugger and hisses at The Boys every time we walk past him. Now a hissing swan isn't that much of a strange thing, but it's usually the protective parents not their babies. I guess this one must have had some bad experiences since spring time.<br />
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The swans weren't our only winter visitors though as our son Aaron came to stay with us for a week with his girlfriend Emma.<br />
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Monday was 'home alone' day for me whilst they all set off to Birmingham for the day. Emma was full of smiles on the way back, possibly looking forward to seeing me . . . .<br />
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Or more likely, a successful days shopping judging by the amount of bags that came aboard.<br />
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Now my 'home alone' day consisted of walking The Boys followed by getting some tree rings with our trolly from about fifteen minutes up the canal and then splitting them into logs. Each trip (walk up, load up, bring back and then split) took about 45 minutes and I did four trips in all, but the end result was worth it as I think I probably got about five weeks worth of logs to add to our existing stock of part seasoned logs 😁 so should be okay for part of the 'Artic Winter' that's apparently on its way.<br />
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Travelling up the Lapworth flight of locks and it's amazing the difference a few extra pairs of hands make and managed to do fifteen locks in a little over two hours. We are back onto nice single ones now and they weren't overly deep either that makes life a bit easier and quicker.<br />
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Day 707 in the Badger Sett Narrowboat - 1396 miles, 664 locks and 728 cruising hours further on from when we started.BINKS AND BENJIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01492649756421938491noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310391591871049276.post-4701115845240390262014-11-26T16:57:00.002+00:002014-11-26T16:57:55.311+00:00A Frosty Start<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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First sub-zero temperature of this winter, about -2 I think it was, with the resulting morning frost.</div>
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Day 691 in the Badger Sett Narrowboat - 1379 miles, 675 locks and 723 cruising hours further on from when we started.BINKS AND BENJIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01492649756421938491noreply@blogger.com2Lapworth, Solihull, Warwickshire B94, UK52.339016 -1.762603000000012852.319614 -1.8029435000000129 52.358418 -1.7222625000000127tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310391591871049276.post-14465942893992940082014-11-21T14:15:00.004+00:002014-11-21T14:15:59.296+00:00Well I'm Back<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Well, actually, I haven't been away, just AWOL on the blogging scene that probably won't come as much of a surprise to my regular readers of my non-regular blog. . . . . . </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">I have got a new toy call a hudl that is a tesco tablet. I don't find the keyboard as easy to use as it is on a laptop, but luckily enough I can just talk and it types in what i'm saying, which I have to say is quite good. Whilst my laptop is still alive I find I can only get about an hour's use out of a full battery. It is less of a problem in the summer when there is plenty of light for the solar panels, but in the winter months we need to charge up whilst travelling and sometimes we don't travel enough. As we can only use it for about an hour we can also only watch part of a film, part of football match or formula 1 if we watch over the Internet before having to plug it in to charge it up again. </span></div>
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Having been so long it's a bit like a time warp going back over these 'old photos' that reminds me that I keep meaning to go back to the start of my blog to reminisce one day.<br />
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Benji getting bored when we were Skyping one day, all they could see was a hairy chin.<br />
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When we eventually got down to Oxford Nicky's mum came for a visit and here they are before they set off on their day out around Oxford, whilst I was allowed to stay home alone with The Boys ☺. Well I say stayed home, but I took The Boys for a quick walk that ended up as about five miles of the River Thames and that was one way. . . . . . .<br />
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And here they are with a have to be done selfie whilst on their open top bus tour.<br />
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Unfortunately for the chap in the punt it was his pole that got stuck in the mud and was left behind. Not wishing to embarras the guy further we quickly moved on (NOT) and just stood there watching him paddle back to retrieve it.<br />
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No photo or video, but there was one other couple that had given up on the punting and decided to just paddle, unfortunately for them something had got lost in translation and one was paddling forwards whilst the other was paddling backwards! I wonder if they're still there.<br />
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Grooming time for Binks.<br />
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But Benji prefers to take his lying down.<br />
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Getting cooler so the stove is starting to go on now for a few hours and here is our tea cooking in the ash tray. Jacket potatoes if any one is confused.<br />
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Nearly off the Oxford Canal now, having spent about five weeks on it and have to say it is a very pretty and rural canal. Food wise though, if you are planning a trip, Banbury is the only place where there are proper supermarkets so be sure to stock up. So here's our mooring spot for our last night and with a probably well photographed wind mill in the centre of the picture.<br />
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And a close up to make it a little easier to see.<br />
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We have hummed and haared (don't know if this is how it is spelt but hopefully you'll know what I mean) about getting a 'pram hood' for Badger Sett since we brought it and finally decided that we would. We think we have got about four more years before we would have completed the whole network and sell Badger Sett and felt that we needed to get it now or not at all as they are not cheap to buy.<br />
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For anybody who is wondering, the next instalment of our travels will see us move from boat to motorhome and swap England for Europe, but that's a couple of years and a few blogs away yet. That is unless I get my way and do 50/50 now with the summer here and the winter away, but the boss is saying no at the moment.<br />
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Oh what to do when there are two dogs and only one patch of sun.<br />
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We clocked up our second year of living aboard on 4th October so had our anniversary meal at a place called the Blue Lias on the Grand Union Canal. Our last anniversary was spent way up north on the Lancaster Canal and there was me thinking that we didn't travel far. And look, they even put the flags out for us. . . .<br />
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Okay then, not funny, who took the water away last night?<br />
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Ended up securing extra ropes in the night to help us not go over, but in the end the bottom was fairly level so it was okayish, although some stuff was falling off shelves.<br />
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Took a walk up the Hatton Flight with our friends Alan and Tina from Jersey who came to stay with us for a week in Warwick. Still good weather for November.<br />
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Dragonfly sculpture just off to the side of one of the top locks.<br />
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Looks like The Boys have had a better offer so we are dogless tonight.<br />
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And of course, the Narrow Boat game had to come out. Guess who won, yes Alan, guess who came last, yes again . . . .me 😬<br />
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Don't know if it was the boring company or too much beer (probably the latter), but it's forty winks time for me.<br />
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Warwick Castle on another glorious November day.<br />
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And that just about brings us up todate and finds us moored at Lapwoth where we are meeting our son Aaron and his girlfriend Emma tomorrow who are staying with us for a week.<br />
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And after that it will be a quick chug to Alvechurch Marina where we are leaving Badger Sett whilst we go back home for a month over Christmas and the New Year. I will endeavour to get a post done before we go back and then a year end roundup when we are back home.<br />
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Day 687 in the Badger Sett Narrowboat - 1377 miles, 645 locks and 718 cruising hours further on from when we started.<br />
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