After an enjoyable evening spent in the Navigation Inn, we were dissapointed to awake to cold grey skies this morning. We reversed back to Kingswood junction and turned left towards the Stratford canal. I eased Jannock through the narrow ex-lock and then swung her right round to moor up at the water point to fill the tank. We then set off down through the 18 locks passing through some very pleasant countryside, what a delightful canal, especially as the sun had come out and was very pleasant. Shame about the strong wind that accompanied it, this became Brenda's excuse for the occasional bump when entering locks. She returned from her trip to the Lawsonford rubbish skip loaded up with damsons. Some of the barrel roofed lock cottages have been converted into very desirable residences along this stretch.. At one of the locks near Preston Bagot a duck waddled up to the wall adjacient to where Brenda was stood on the rear deck and started quacking at her. She engaged it in conversation and it kept quacking back as if it understood what she was saying. We stopped just after Wooton Warren aquaduct and picked some off-side blackberries for our tea. We finally moored for the night in the countryside between 57 and 58. We should make it to Stratford tomorrow. www.jannock.org.uk -------------------------- Graham
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