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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