If we had a rabbit...

... and annoyed it, we'd have a hot cross bun. It's like the height of summer today, and we've been tottering around in polo shirts and shorts all day. It got hot enough after lunch to make hiding in the boat advisable, and it's definitely going to be salad tonight. The hawthorn is now in blossom, so clouts can be cast, say I.

We had a nice run up Fradley, a bit of traffic around first thing, but nothing like as bad as it can be. Then I steered along the familiar pound through Streethay to Huddlesford, where there was plenty of room on the towpath at midday. Most of the regular lurkers seem to be hanging out on the Coventry at Fradley at the moment.

It's really good to see loads of folks enjoying the cut on a day like this, and it looks as if we've got the weather for most of the weekend, hooray.

There'll likely be a return to more normal April conditions after that, but hey, who's complaining?

We're killing time this week, so we'll make a gentle toddle along to Kingsbury Water Park over the next few days, then amble back to Alrewas for a week on Monday.