Saturday 11th August 2007

Location: Branston, Staffs

Today: 6 miles, 5 locks. Total distance: 400 miles.  Total locks: 357

Warm with sunny spells.

Manage to get a lift from a friend. While at the chandler, I bought two cables so that we have a spare, I also picked up a fan belt for the 12V alternator. I still need a fan belt for the 240V alternator as they did not have one in stock.

Fired up the BBQ in the evening and cooked a couple of chickens. The left over chicken is always handy for sandwiches and sweet and sour.

Saturday:
Ffitted the new control cable. All in all, it only took about 20 minutes to fit and adjust the new cable.

In the afternoon, I pulled the pins and went for a little cruise to entertain Tom and to charge batteries and take on water. We went as far as Branston Water Park where we moored up for the night. We moored at Branston a couple of months back when we met up with our friends Fran and Vic from Australia.

Fired up thge BBQ in the evening and cooked some lovely pork chops and sausages from the butcher in Alrewas.

Took Tom to the park then walked around the lake. Was after 22:00 when we got back to the boat.

Just after we left the spot where we were moored at Alrewas, 3 idiots on mini motorbikes went flying down the tow path at about 40 miles an hour. We saw them a bit later at the other side of Alrewas on their way back to wherever they came from. People walking on the tow path, including Rhonda, had to jump out of their way.

Idiots 1

Idiots 2

Idiots 3

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