Happy New Year.

            

We hope you will  enjoy 2014 as much as we will continuously cruising all through the year.

Greetings!

          

To all our friends and family, afloat and on land. We hope you have an enjoyable Christmastime together. Fellow bloggers have already taken a break from writing which we will also be doing overwinter as we will not be cruising so much. Thank you to all those who have taken time to post comments to us and I hope you have all enjoyed reading about our travels during 2013

Hillmorton.

     

Moving along to one of our favourite stop-overs we found out where all the boats were, There were about twenty here, when there are usually only a handful at the most..

Braunston.

   

We pootled along to the Stop House for water etc, not many boats along this section of the canal. Just after we disconnected the hose and stowed it away another boat was waiting to fill up. However we both had to wait for this boat with a shed on the back to pass and slowly turn around and come back past us. Then we were off and we could see up on the bank that the gales had brought down half of this magnificent tree..

  

When I had spoken earlier to the chap on nb Hephzibah he told me they very often get hit by boats turning or negotiating the marina entrance. Once they were hit so hard their drinks fell off the table, amazing! Gongoozlers Rest was busy with customers aboard when I bought some of their delicious cake to take-away. I collected the December Towpath Talk from the Stop House and had a chat with Jenni who volunteers to run the office, she also has her own boat.

Molly.

  

First to leave us was Derwent 6, then in the afternoon Maffi was off too. There was plenty of water overflowing the bottom gates at Braunston Locks, We fished Mary’s windlass out of the second lock first go!.

         

All the locks were against us, but even so we made it in good time to the top for tea on the Milly M, Molly was quite exhausted after all that hard work and was soon curled up in her bed snoring!