Setting off at our usual time of about 8-30am this morning we travelled for 5 miles and 3 locks taking just over 2 hours, including a stop at Bishop’s Meadow for water.
We are now moored above Kegworth Deep Lock and jolly nice it is too. We walked in to the village for the usual taking a different but shorter route when we reached the main road than we have taken before. It is a public footpath from opposite The Anchor along Bridgeside and really cuts the corner off.
On the way back to the pub we found another little short cut down Lover’s Walk, ahhh. On the way to the pub we stopped to look at the cars in the garage there but they were either Fiats (too cheap) or Alpha Romeos (nice but too expensive).
We arrived at the pub at exactly 12 pm (how do we do it?) but we had to wait outside for 10 minutes before it opened (I seem to recall that happened last time we went there as well). However, while we were waiting we were entertained by an old chap who regaled us with stories of his time working in Leaver’s lace mill at Long Eaton.
After the pub we came back to the boat and as we got to the lock there were a couple of boats waiting to go down, they said had we seen the fox? And there standing on the other side of the lock was a lovely female fox. She was totally unperturbed by the comings and goings at the lock and I got some nice photos.
One of the boats waiting to go down was ‘Dude Too’ which took photos of at The Otter last week when we were there as Ken likes it. The chap had just bought it and this was his first trip out with his family. Also on the way back we met a chap who had hired his boat for 6 months and had come up from Oxford via the Thames and is now on his way to Langollen before returning to Banbury.
Ken has been doing some fishing this afternoon and evening. Things started well and he caught lots of small ones on maggots. Since dinner he has gone on to boilies and some cheap shit sausages which we cooked but didn’t like and hasn’t caught a thing! Mind you there has been quite a lot of boat movement so things may improve later.
Tomorrow we may have to make an early start in order to beat this rain which is forecast. We are going to Sawley.
