We got back to Market Bosworth just after half ten, Sheila taking six minutes longer for the return journey than I did yesterday. This is because she is a more prudent steerer than I, and slows down for blind bridgeholes more than I do.
The weather wasn't as nice as we'd hoped in the morning, so apart from doing look out from time to time at the aforesaid blind bridgeholes, I spent most of it down below. The washing up got done, a washload was run and a fresh batch of yoghurt started. We had coffee before arriving, so we were able to set off into the metropolitan maelstrom that is Market Bosworth on a Wednesday (market day) as soon as we'd tied.
The fancy sweetshop proved to be very fancy indeed. We'd planned to restock with dark chocolate there, but only bought one bar – at three quid a throw, that seemed quite enough. The handmade chocs were 70 pence each.
Fortunately, the Co-op now does a range of seriously dark chocolate so we got some more there. The actual market is very small, but did have a good, traditional greengrocer from whom we bought a couple of pounds of cherry tomatoes, some orange coloured and some red, for just a pound.
Back at the boat, we took advantage of a space that had opened in front of us to move onto rings, then had lunch. It got very noisy, what with the building works in the new marina and a guy cutting a lot of grass in front of the new flats on the offside with a small mower, so at half two we decided to move on.
We'd expected to find a towpath mooring quite soon, but all the ones we tried on the old style piling were way too shallow to let us get near the bank. In the end, we've come on to the moorings at Shenton, near the Battlefield site, where we'd planned to tie tomorrow night. It means using pins, as I commented the other day, but it's a good edge with decent depth.
Tomorrow we'll carry on to investigate the well advertised farm shop at Bridge 23, stopping to water at Sutton Cheney on the way.
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