Day 006 - change of plans!

OK, moored up at Aston - just below Aston Lock on the Trent and Mersey: a little way before Shardlow. A quarry on one side and a housing estate on the other - beautiful! Actually it's not quite so bad as the housing estate is a long way over fields and the quarry is over an embankment. No satellite signal and no terristrial TV signal either. Only 3 bars of GPRS signal so picture are all but impossible to upload - shame, as I have some nice ones for you from today but they'll have to wait!

Now the change of plans. Ever the ambitious, we have decided to return by another route. The plan now is to head onto the Trent tomorrow, (it is open and fine apparently,) and through to the Soar and then come back via the Grand Union Leicester Arm and back to Norton Junction via the Foxton locks before the final leg through Braunston. Although there's more locks and the weather forecast is, to say the least foul - we fancied the challenge and having come this far it seemed silly not to try it!

I've now tried several times to upload at least one of my pictures from the day but it keeps timing out and simply can't cope this evening so sorry - no pics tonight!

***Wednesday update***

Managed to upload the pictures for you but only just and it took several attempts for each picture - finally managed to do it with the laptop on the roof of the boat!

Makes you thirsty doesn't it!

Not sure if the pump-out station sign is linked in any way with Marston's brewery!!

They do like their murals in Burton, and very nice they are too!