Last views of Braunston Church. For those of you who don't know, this is the Church that is used most by the boating community, it's pretty central and is such a landmark. Braunston is a real boaters place, a marina, plenty of moorings, a couple of chandleries and at the bottom of the Buckby Locks where the famous water cans originate (still painting mine, not very well I might add).
It was pretty busy by the time we left (late as I slept in somewhat) and we pulled out behind two boats. The first was a hire boat, one of Kates' from Warwick, there are a lot of them around here. Anyway it has to be the slowest hire boat in Christendom, nice to see but a 1.5 mile section according to Pearson's maps, was closer to 2.5 and there were no locks involved! It was lovely to see them moor up for lunch and they have just gone past our mooring and we counted 4 adults, 4 children and a dog in a very small boat!
Real geese, lots of them across the field, so lovely to see after all the Canadian ones that seem to be everywhere now. I hope our indigenous ones manage to survive, we've seen a lot of evidence of interbreeding along the way.
This is just for my mum, she always had lavender hedges in our gardens and it always makes me think of them, so Mum if you read this, enjoy!
This is the mooring at Barby Wharf that we were interested in on the way down, still not sold we noticed and at £96,000 we're not surprised! Lovely position but no electric, just water...really????
Here's the pub just south of Hilmorton locks, that we've had meals in with both the sons and their families, one momentous occasion when the Nellie was just walking and Halden was not quite, we had a meal there and the pile of food under the table was about ten times the amount that they had on their plates! It was like the magic porridge pot all over again! Luckily we had a lovely waitress who was completely unfazed by it all. Ironically it's about an hours drive home from here, we're likely to be out for the next 2 weeks still!
At the top of the Hilmorton Locks. The weather has just got better and better today and was really hot by the time we got here. Everything went fairly smoothly, apart from someone taking our lock despite the fact that we were in plain view, but heigh ho, some people are just like that.
We are now moored at Rugby, on the side of a park, which is nice. We've been to the Tesco just a few minutes away and so I'm now about to cook a prawn curry, one of our favourites.
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