Day 011 - the penultimate day!

Should be home tomorrow - all being well!
Set off this morning in glorious sunshine and moored up this evening in glorious sunshine - the holiday must be coming to an end! With the beginning of British Summertime today, maybe the weather has finally woken up and realised what time of year it is?

An easy and painless trip through the Watford staircase locks and on towards Norton Junction only stopping to collect some wood to throw on the fire as were fed up with the smell of coal and wanted a bit of wood smoke to sniff! Of course, after collecting the wood, one has to cut it up...

...Through Braunston tunnel, passing a big old thumping working boat and butty and then the turn. I have never seen Braunston so clear of boats. Just one sollitary little boat moored up with noone around, (and not much chance of anyone being on it either by the looks of it!) and then back out into open countryside finally mooring up just before bridge 87 on a lovely stretch and with the sun still shining. 16.5 miles, 12 locks and 2 tunnels later after 6 hours cruising and the pork jobs are sizzling nicely in the oven and the wine is chilling in the fridge!

Tomorrow - home! I'll take dad to collect his car from friends at Market Harborough, do some shopping, get diesel and a pumpout on the way in, take on water, hoover and clean the boat and then start thinking about school on Thursday and the marina open day on Saturday.

Oh and during this trip my outdoor temperature sensor 'mysteriously' disappeared from the side of my boat! I have taken the opportunity to do something I have wanted to do for some time now and ordered a complete home weather station which will allow for rainfall and wind speed measurments to be wirelessly transmitted to the panel inside the boat! It should arrive this week hopefully to school. This is the one!