There are No Problems on the Kennet & Avon Canal
Moored Near Sulhamstead, Kennet & Avon Canal
Oh such bliss, moored for a day at last and doing nothing!
And if you cant read it’s No Problem.. This is Braunston’s version.. a lovely 70 footer that we had met on one other occasion a couple of years ago.. this is a lovely boat!
Only just got out there with the camera in time before they disappeared between the jungle that surrounds this canal! I got a lot done today, plenty of admin had piled up, and emails to answer, there just hasn’t been time such was the fun we were having on the Thames.. now time will stand still for a while.. well not really, just today because the family are due at the weekend and I haven’t even sorted out where yet!
In the other direction went working boat Nuneaton and butty Brighton.. lots of coal aboard, but we don’t need that quite yet!
Of course there was plenty of walking to do as well, just missing out on a hefty rain shower this afternoon.. I shall be sorry to leave this mooring we have here you know..
Sue
Updated 23rd January 2012
July 23rd, 2010 at 6:23 pm
How is that pub doing The Quiet man just out of reading? They were doing it up when we got onto the K & a and we moored there. The next day our progress was stopped by a fallen tree across the canal just past the first lock after the pub. A chap who had been moored behind us and had started at the crack of dawn wasn’t too happy. He had gone up the lock and even though the BW men had arrived to saw the tree down he decided to come back down the lock and wind! He then said he was going to go the other way round!!!! We were a bit gob smacked. ‘The other way round’ Did this mean he was going to travel all the way back and then eventualy get onto the Glous and Sharpness?! When we came back from Bristol it was the pub’s opening day and we along with Autumn Mist were looking forward to a drink. But it was only open to invited guests that day! After doing a number of locks that morning we were looking forward to a cold beer but our luck was out and the chap on the door wouldn’t budge!
July 23rd, 2010 at 9:56 pm
The working pair went past us this evening ( at Ham lock)..
They are going to the Newbury Waterways festival which is this weekend and then back down the K & A
A lovely sight ( and sound) they make!
July 24th, 2010 at 11:36 am
Cowroast marina at Fenny Compton on the South Oxford allow you to make own fuel declaration, not on your list. Happy cruising!
July 25th, 2010 at 9:20 pm
Talking of baptisms by the way – I was forcibly dunked a few weeks back when I got distracted by the director as I stepped between 2 boats up on the Macc. I went down between the steel hulls like a pinball and split my lip like a ripe plum on the way down. 3 stitches and I now have a beard. The worst part being the loss of all that expensive botox into the canal. But – yesterday the director herself missed her footing on the coal boat and had her own baptism – so all square.
July 25th, 2010 at 11:39 pm
Kate, The Cunning Man I expect you mean at Burghfield Bridge.. It is alive and well with plenty of visitor moorings.. a welcome stop now I would expect with so very few places to moor unless you are prepared to make one for yourself!
It certainly is a long way round.. I wonder if he actually did that.. There are so many jobsworth people around Kate.. we met one the other day at Windsor Castle wouldn’t stamp my day pass to make it an annual because I had come past him and the rules say I have to have it stamped before I leave! I did send it to Buckingham Palace for them to do it as he told me to, but I didn’t hear back yet… I won’t hold my breath!
Gillie,
We are at Widmead Lock, one of my favourite moorings just upstream on the non towpath side tonight.. should be by you tomorrow afternoon, we will let them vacate Newbury during the morning first..
Maureen,
Many thanks for that, will update shortly..
Ben,
Ouch!
Well it must have been quite difficult to keep the smile off your face!
July 26th, 2010 at 4:26 pm
Just filled up at ‘The Trading Post’ (www.canaltradingpost.com) on the Macclesfield nr Higher Poynton. Self declare allowed, currently 75p per ltr untaxed.
August 2nd, 2010 at 10:54 pm
Julia,
Many thanks for that, have updated the list..