Retirement with No Problem

Nr Alvecote to Hopwas, Coventry Canal, 5 miles 2 locks

Now I don’t normally like to move on a Saturday, in fact it is very rare indeed that happens… but… The pins were pulled, would you believe at 8.30am, no that isn’t a typo, 8.30am!  The middle of the night for me that is by the way!

There was good reason.. Granny Buttons was just a few miles away, and would be turning towards Birmingham at Fazeley Junction, while we would be traveling straight across.  Trouble was, Fazeley Junction was ahead of us by 2 miles.  I knew that you see, because Andrew sent me an email last night wondering just how close we were to him.

It happened though…

Actually I quite enjoyed the early start this morning, was lucky too at Glascote flight of two locks, one had just come up, so both were ‘for’ us.

Then Fazeley Junction.. I always, always managed to bump the side on that bridge.  You know I can’t ever remember a time when I have come through there and not left a bit of paint.  I was trying very hard today to get it right, but I do have an excuse, a hire boat decided to come out from the water point just after the bridge and turn across my path to go to Birmingham, then decided better of it and reverse back… I really didn’t know what he was doing, and lost concentration at the last moment at THAT bloomin’ bridge!.. 

After ‘doing’ the services we cruised on through Hopwas to one of my favourite spots on the waterways just beside Hopwas Woods.. I couldn’t wait to take a quick look on the bridge to see if the red flags were flying, and came back to NP with a big smile on my face.. nope they weren’t!.. Ah red flags flying in this particular spot means that the firing ranges within the woods are active.. tis then it is a no go area! Tomorrow it will be a go area for me and Lucy for a long, long wander

I was delighted to welcome Andrew onboard No Problem, and we chatted a while about this and that for an hour or so.. Nice guy is Andrew .  Oh AND… I felt very special to receive one of the delights of Granny Buttons… a packet of buttons… no not for shoving on shirts, but for eating… and they are all gone now.. yum!