Easter holiday - day eleven

Nothing spectacular happened today but then what would you expect when cruising through Tamworth for much of the day? After only a few minutes of cruising, the boat decided to grind to a halt. What appeared to be half a mile of very fetching blue nylon mooring line had wound itself tightly round my blades. Much cutting, heaving and pulling and it was finally all freed and we could continue on our merry way through Hopwas. Queued behind 4 boats at the bottomof the Glascote pair but then very little traffic meant we breezed through the bottom 2 locks in the Atherstone flight where we are now moored. Moored up at about 3.30 this afternoon - a first for us being so early! The weather fluctuated between pleasant and cold with nothing than required more than about 10-15 minutes of shorts wearing! Tomorrow, we should get back to Brinklow and arrange to collect my car from school and my fathers car from Trinity. I will need to make a fairly urgent stop at Rose for water and diesel first however.