Date - 02-01-07 Day - Tuesday Start - 0915 Blue Lias End - 3-30 PM Braunston
Last night the 10 of us ate together in the Blue Lias, As normal the Christmas decorations at the pub were first class and Brian the landlord had done a grand job yet again. We finished the evening with Port and cheese on Harnser before all returned to their boats for the night. This morning started as another great day, John crossed the cut to fill with water before pairing up with "Black Swan" to work their way up the flight, again we followed up the rear with the others drawing the bottom paddles before moving on to the next lock. At Stockton Marina we said goodbye to Charles and Pauline on "Black Swan" with Chard and Carolyn moving onto John and Joan's boat "Fringilla" for the remainder of the week. We carried on and stopped at Calcutt to take on a couple of hundred liters of diesel at 47p/lt. At this point Fringilla past us and continued on until the stopped for lunch just beyond WigramsTurn and allowed us to catch up. After lunch the others were planning to stop at bridge 103 for the night , but as we needed a pump out we pushed on to Braunston Marina. The price of a DIY pump out is now £10 and their diesel is 52p/lt. I suppose this is only to be expected with BW setting their pump out price at over £12. We left the marina and headed back to Braunston Turn where we were going to wait until "Fringilla" came by in the morning, so we were somewhat surprised to see them mooring up just beyond the "Stop House". They had decided that bridge 103 was to early so came down to meet up with us for the night. Tomorrow we are off up the North Oxford Canal for a couple of days. -- Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Visit this site and help save our waterways http://www.savethewaterways.org.uk/
