Date - 23 Nov 06 Day - Thursday Start - Bridge 123 0900hrs End - Cropredy 1400hrs
What a night it was last night, the wind blew and it rained all night. This morning Magic's alarm had went wrong again and I was woken up in the dark with a big black Labrador trying to eat my left ear. After I explained to him it was far to early to get up yet he curled up under the bed and set to washing himself for the next half hour or so and not particualy quietly. By 8 o'clock we were enjoying the sunshine and by 9 we were on the move to a chilly but very pleasant and much better than expected day. Again we didn't see anything on the move and the first moored boats were just before Fenny Compton Wharf, needless to say half of them weren't displaying valid licences. The first expired January 06 and the next some time in 05 where as the third, a narrow beam Dutch barge style boat being fitted out on the 14 day moorings where it was during the summer when we returned from the National was not displaying a licence at all. I wonder if BW saw these when they did there checks at the beginning of the month. As we passed Fenny marina I spotted a very smart boat called "Willy No-Name" with the sun reflecting the water on her shiny new paint work. At Claydon all the locks were against us and all the pounds were on weir. As we approached Broadmoor Lock we again passed several boats not displaying valid licenses and the top gates of the lock its self was under water. If the bottom paddles had not been left open the whole lock area would have been flooded and you could see where the water had been flowing down the footpath at the tail of the lock. As we don't need to be at Banbury until Saturday morning we have moored for the night at Cropredy, stopping a few minuets after two just before the first rain of the day started. -- Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Visit this site and help save our waterways http://www.savethewaterways.org.uk/
