It's been another day when it all came together, yippee. We made an early start from Tixall, and I managed to wind Sanity Again off the towpath and round to go the other way in one move, no going astern at all. She really is a very well behaved boat. We'd wanted to get away in good time so as to have a chance of a space on the water point, and were only just early enough.
I went under the towpath bridge (incidentally, is that arch a parabola or a hyperbola?), turned right and reversed up on to the wharf. Peggy O'Neill I and II were just finishing and pulled out, so we were able to pull right back out of the way. Good pressure here, so although the tank was down to a quarter full, we didn't take an impossible time to get around 600 litres in there. Nonetheless, other boats kept turning up as we did so.
By eight we were working down Haywood Lock, and chugged merrily on to Colwich on a bright sunny morning. Braidbar 91, Dalliance, was just coming up, so Sheila had a chat with Ken as they worked the lock.
By the time we were down, another two boats were waiting to come up. On we went, running a washload as we did so, and arrived at Bridge 69 to find the towpath deserted.
We've settled here for the afternoon and evening, as the weather has deteriorated. A fair bit of computing's got done, and similar indoor activities. It's still quite hot; I suspect we'll have some serious rain overnight.
One discovery: a website called Living on a boat, full of useful stuff on that topic. It's not related to any of the organizations, it's just a broad based resource, as far as I can see.
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