Last nights meal in the Mary Arden Inn was superb. Consequently we awoke late this morning and had a very leisurely start after inventing the traditional boaters breakfast of 'scumbled eggs'. Brenda decided that feeding the toast she burnt, whilst preparing said breakfast, to the ducks actually reduced our carbon footprint because we were locking up said carbon in said ducks! We finally set off at 10:15 and almost immediately stopped to pick apples from an offside tree. They we obviously cooking apples as they didn't taste as good as they looked so the hunt was then on for some blackberries to accompany them. We were passed by two other boats as we harvested blackberries from another offside bush. We continued on to Wooten Warren where we stopped for a pumpout at the Anglo Welsh base. Not cheap at £16.00 but I have not found anywhere suitable for a self pumpout on this stretch. The AW lad who serviced our needs was excellent and told us that they used a Swarfiga product to clean the boats. He then let is have a sample as we didn't want any blue added to the tank. After visiting the very disappointing craft farm there, we left Wooten Warren and headed north to Preston Bagot where we stopped above the second lock. I then cleaned Jannock's roof with the recommended product and was well impressed with the result, so much so that I then proceded to completely repaint the roof as well due to there being plenty of sunshine and no wind or overhanging trees. Meanwhile Brenda created a superb apple and BlackBerry pie for dessert after our dinner. I have placed the baited crayfish net into the river that runs beside lock 37 to see if I can catch any. Might have more local produce for dinner tomorrow night if we're lucky. Visited the Crabmill this evening, expensive posh food but an excellent local beer, UBU by the Purity Brewing Company at Wooton Warren. Superb!
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