As promised by the Met Office, the weather has improved a great deal, and we've had a pleasant if quite gentle day. Yesterday, we'd placed an order for a paper from the shop at Fradley, but were told that it wouldn't be in until around ten today.
So we made a leisurely start, though Sally insisted on joining us in bed at half five. After getting up more than a couple of hours later, I gave her a bit of a run along the towpath below Hunts Lock. We finally set off just before ten, Sheila and Sally steering and your correspondent lock wheeling. I collected the paper from the shop as we went by, and then we had a slow trip up the rest of the flight, with a couple of boats ahead of us and one coming down.
It made a real change to work through Woodend Lock in warm sunshine, rather than with the rain blowing in our faces, and we found the tow path moorings beyond Kings Bromley Marina comparatively deserted. We've been pottering since, watching the second half of the Campion we started the other day and the like.
We may well sit tight here tomorrow; fellow Braidbar owners Graham and Beryl Johnson are coming through on Priscilla, on their way to ABNB with her, so we'll be able to have a natter with them. They're taking her for sale, as they are emulating us and having a new Braidbar built this autumn.
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