There was an hour in the night when the wind picked up and it was rattling the TV aerial on the roof and the chain on the chimney, but either I got used to it, or the wind died down again. When I finally woke it was a nice morning with a little spitting rain off and on.
Always a sad day when we are this far from the marina and heading back. This run by Ravenshaw Wood is always pretty and full of birdsong.
The sun even came out to celebrate. One boat had passed us about 0730 and another about 0830 but we had this stretch to ourselves to enjoy.
Alongside the canal was this field of sheep they had eaten what was left of the grass and now it was bare. There were piles of beats for them but I am puzzled why this would be done. The sheep looked large, so maybe ready to drop their lambs. I would have thought in that case they would need a good diet to beef them up for birth and milk production. If the sheep were being fattened for sale again you would have thought they would have been on better commons to get their weight up! The field behind had sheep in with plenty of grass. I assumed that they were just about to lamb! Does anybody have any answers?
Just before Kings Bromley Wharf and dairy is J F Boat Builders at what is apparently called Wharf Farm Barn Marina. J F stands for Jamie Franklin and their website looks to be building very smart boats on Tim Tyler hulls. Handy spot for a blacking mind.
Of course we met the only boat of our trip at the bridge before the wharf so I waited. They have done a great job of the garden of the house by the bridge, and the house is lovely too. We soon made the turn into the marina and ignored the fuel berth and made our way straight to our pontoon. A neat job of backing in to our pontoon was made and we were soon fast and getting ready to head home.
The journey was very good other than a torrential shower that had speeds down to around 50 mph but everybody was keeping their distances and it was soon all dry again. We are at home to go to the opera. It is Puccini's Tosca which is an opera about an opera singer! I am expecting it to be a modern staging but we will see.
We will soon be back, at least for a short time as we introduce our 4 year old grand daughter to the canals, as well as her Aunty who is coming along.
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