Serious boating

Well, by our standards, anyway. We set off at half seven this morning and by nine were tying in Rugeley. Loads of room on the 48hr VMs at that time, indeed loads of room on all the moorings we passed pretty well.

The new Tesco is enormous and has a pedestrianised route to it from the towpath, would you believe. Morrison's is going to have to work hard to compete, though things like their pasties are still much better. We stocked up on perishables like fruit, veg and bread, then set out again.

We'd normally only go as far as the pig farm at Bridge 69, sorry Taft Wharf, but today we wanted to get to Great Haywood to get a good choice of bedding plants before they all sell out this weekend. As a result, it was gone one o'clock before we'd tied on Tixall.

Loads of room here, too, which is odd. On a BH weekend, it would be packed out by now in previous years. Where is everybody?

We have indeed got exactly the plants Sheila wanted. We got them at £1.15 each rather than £1.25 because we were buying nine. 

We plan to stay here for the weekend, planting up the troughs, washing and polishing the starboard side of the boat and generally watching the world go by.

Then it'll be heigh ho for Crick, boating in easy stages as usual; all this dashing about doing five hours a day can't be good for you.

:)