Retirement with No Problem

Hartshill to Atherstone, Coventry Canal, 4 miles 11 locks

After meeting up with Chas and Ann on NB Moore2Life last week, they had to turn back today so they could ‘do the dentist’ at Daventry at the beginning of next week.. so after a fond ‘au revoir’ they headed to Braunston while we continued along the Coventry Canal towards our destination of Gt Haywood on the Trent and Mersey Canal.  We’ll meet up again soon on the Ashby I expect.

Lucy was fine this morning, and thanks too to Peter who suggested looking for one of those dreaded grass seeds in her eye.

“Lucy may have grass seed in her eye. Rinse it with cold tea – no milk or sugar – It can sooth the eye – my old springer cross was treated that way more than once.”

Some will remember back in the summer she had one of those pesky things in her foot which caused her to have to be put under by the Vet at St Noets to remove it when it travelled up her leg.  But she seems just fine now, her poorly eye is now nice and bright and fully open.

So after collecting post from Atherstone… oh and that was interesting too… the lady post mistress and her hubby had only taken over the Post Office a couple of weeks ago, and it was her first ‘Post Restante’!  “I had to get out the instructions” says she.. seemingly very proud to ask me for my ID.  Then she had some questions for me that weren’t contained in the instruction booklet - I gladly answered.  A very nice lady indeed.

Yeah, so after collecting post from Atherstone, we made our way down the Atherstone 11 locks narrow locks…

We enjoyed working through the flight together today, there were not too many narrowboats about, but we did bump into friends Pat and Shelia with NB Fair Fa heading up on their way to spending winter around the London area and later passing one of the readers of this blog, Terry with NB Albert also working his way up…

Apart from a grumpy fisherman complaining about Lucy being allowed to trot along the towpath beside NP, it has been a very relaxing day.  We stuck the pins in just below the flight around 2pm this afternoon, and spent the rest of the day just relaxing, and I finally caught up with getting this new computer to behave just as I want it to!

The only annoyance we have now is some rather large acorns dropping on the roof from the oak tree that we have moored under… I do hope we can sleep and don’t have to get up in the middle of the night to move away!