Retirement with No Problem

Moored Widmead Lock, Kennet & Avon Canal

I am surprised we are so settled.  Maybe our minds have just adjusted to the fact that we have to.  But we are very happy here, the mooring is a delight.

Yesterday we caught the bus to Newbury from the end of the footpath that leads to the Nature Discovery Centre in Thatcham, very handy.  We needed some milk and a couple of other bits and bobs.  Of course we timed it for lunchtime and found one of the two Weatherspoons.  Most will know I am a great fan!

Lucy and Meg keep me busy during the day in between a project which I have embarked on while waiting for winter stoppages to finish to allow us onto the rest of the canal system.  Unfortunately my New Year’s Resolution is not going to happen… In fact it is dire near impossible now.  Not my fault, honest! 

You will have to look at the front page of the blog down the left hand column to see what it is/was!

We have not seen a boat come past for four days now.  It is really quiet on this stretch of the Kennet & Avon.  The only other boat anywhere near us is Arundel moored about half a mile away.

Oh and I have been a bit of a BW unofficial volunteer Lock Keeper today, with no boats moving through the lock here it has got very bunged up in front of it as it is a river bit,  so I cleared the culverts of debris and flushed a lock full of water through.  I also cleared the lock bywater weir just behind us which was totally bunged up.

And Maffi, I also cleared 1 mile each way of any rubbish!  To be honest there wasn’t very much, just a small carrier bag full.  I have found the K&A towpaths pretty rubbish free.

I’ll think of something else tomorrow!