Retirement with No Problem

Devizes to All Cannings, Kennet & Avon Canal, 6.5 miles 0 locks

Leaving Devizes this morning I was looking forward to the run to All Cannings.. it’s very rural and overgrown..

Yep, that’s the way through there!  It’s a good job there are very few boats cruising this waterway at the moment, and I don’t know how two wide beams would manage to pass.. but there is something about it that is so remote and serene.. to be honest I secretly love it, but that is foolhardy.. leave it like this for much longer and there will be no channel at all.. Talk about ditchcrawling, this is close to it!

We managed to pick up some odd bits of tree just outside of Devizes, I spotted it in the other direction a couple of weeks ago.. handily it was still there.  It’s been chilly in the evenings with the promise of a ground frost for us this evening.. we have yet to get any coal on the roof, but I resisted to light the fire tonight for the first time.. I’m trying to hang on to summer!

This swing bridge is destined not to be swung again by the look of it.. but there are a couple more between Devizes and All Cannings which are in very good order..

With wood chopped I got down to some admin aboard, catching up with some mundane stuff which I had shoved under the seat (my ‘to do’ filing cabinet) for the last month or so.. a nice break though when Barry and Sandra came through with Northern Pride on their way to Pewsey, stopping for a bit of a catchup..

Disappearing along ‘the jungle’ it would be the last time we would see them as they are selling the boat in a couple of months after visiting London.. they are on their way back to New Zealand at the end of the year..

Deer, falcons, herons, kingfishers, swimming grass snakes and tonight a clear sky with no white light.. It’s no wonder I like this bit..