Sunday 26th August
2018
We have had today what the kids would call a “chill” day. The weather
forecast was for rain from 9am until 3pm. The rain started at 10 minutes to 9.
We wanted to have the kids picked up tomorrow somewhere about the A50
to make it easy for Tracey. But we want to stop in Burton-upon-Trent so it is
there they will be picked up. It’s just a few hours until Burton so we will do
that in the morning when the weather forecast is better.
So we spent the day doing our own things and we all watched the DVD “The
Greatest Showman”. Even I kind of enjoyed it.
The rain cleared up in the afternoon so we went for a walk around the
Branston Water Park and called into the Bridge Inn. We passed a huge gravel
quarry that must have been a ½ mile long. We have an OS map dated 2004 and it
isn’t even on it.
We forgot to mention the other day, when we stopped outside Rugeley
for our breakfast after taking on water. We were moored on a fishing marker
numbered 114, believe it or not.
We had got our post from Great Haywood a few days previously, and
there was a parcel from Nick and Michelle, who bought 114 from us, with a card,
a sun catcher, a canal style painted mug and a horseshoe. Very nice of them.
But it did raise a smile. Brenda had coined a phase. When we lived in
the house, we used to look at boats and say “bastards”. Now we live on a boat
and say “what a lovely house”.
Already, after a night and one more ahead of us, we are ready to move on.
This seems to be the way we are going.
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