Day 3 (Mon 16/4) the scenery around the bottom of Hillmorton locks is in the process of being changed forever. We came through here about 18 months ago and there was a lot of civil engineering works going on. I spoke to a lady walking past the boat who said it was a new road from the M1/A5 into Rugby and they had started on a new bridge as you approach bridge 66 on the canal. All the lovely long gardens have gone to make way for it.
The new mooring at Brownsover Park
Our other surprise was the changes to moorings at Brownsover Park important for the closeness of the Tesco to bridge 58, for the heavy essentials. Last time we were here we had to put pins into the soft towpath grass - one of which was ripped out by a passing boat. This will no longer happen as a considerable number of rings have now been installed.The only down side is that there is no longer mooring allowed past the bridge as you head towards Newbold, CRT have rebuilt the towpath which really needed to be done.
We moored up in Ansty and had luckily just finished cooking when the gas ran out. No problem just swop the bottle over but to no avail.Thought the auto switch over valve not working therefore first priority is to get this sorted out in the morning as we have no other means of cooking except for the bbq.
Day 4(Tue 17/4) I was up at 06.00 to a very chilly morning with a strong breeze. First stop was Star Line Cruisers in Nuneaton who were very helpful and it was simple to fix. The gas had leaked out of the connection to the spare bottle over the winter, so after the purchase of 2 new gas bottles calm was restored with coffee. We are now moored up just past bridge 27 and the Atherstone lock flight beckons tomorrow.
I am writing this off line on my tablet using Microsoft docs and will then cut and paste it into the blog when we have a good 4g signal on Anne’s phone.
Day 5 (Wed 18/4) glorious sunny warm day went down the 11 locks of the Atherstone flight in lovely warm sunshine. Not many boats about and had the flight mostly to our selves.
I now have a problem with downloading the pictures from the camera memory card into the tablet. It doesn’t want to recognise the card reader for some reason. In fact it was playing up a bit the other evening and on pushing the connection in a bit harder it connected. Tried all that tonight and nothing happened. I may be only able to use pictures taken on the tablet.
Hopefully all this will post ok!!!!
Hopefully all this will post ok!!!!
