Another brief post

16th & 17th May

It’s a rather unstable connection here at All Oaks Wood, so another summary post, I’m afraid. Highlights of the last two days:

The night before last we had a minor run at Hartshill in with a bunch of youths throwing stuff like lamp irons in the cut, so thought it prudent to move on to a new (to us) mooring just before Springwood Haven. After a good night’s kip, we decided to stay put for another day, so that Elanor could rendezvous with us with some post and an exchange of books.

This worked out OK yesterday, though Elanor tells us that the track down to Springwood Marina (where Valley Cruisers are based) is quite hard on a low slung car. There’s no longer a car park by Bridge 29.

We got some washing and brass polishing done on a very pleasant day, weatherwise.

After a rather broken night’s sleep, we did one of our flying starts today, setting off at 6 on a bright but cold morning. It was an uneventful but pleasant chug through Nuneaton to Hawkesbury Junction, where we refilled the water tank.

We had to wait for a bit of traffic to come through the turn, after which I’m pleased to say that I got Sanity Again through pretty smoothly, despite a boat tied in front of the Greyhound whilst a toilet cassette was emptied.

Then it was steadily on down the North Oxford. We could have stopped at Ansty, but we’ve pressed on to All Oaks Wood. There’s a mixture of lurkers and those passing through here; we’re only going to stop the one night before going on to Newbold for a couple of days and a trip into Rugby probably. Newbold normally has a decent connection, so I should be able to sort the blog out properly there.