We arrived st Braunston accompanied by Margaret, our neighbour, and undid all the packing away that we bad done before delivering Jannock for blacking. We then started up the Braunston flight following a pair of boats that had just beaten is to the bottom lock. As we were leaving this lock, another single boat approached and so we waited for them at the next. Out of the top lock in 105 minutes because Brenda had walked ahead setting them ready. We found her stood on the bridge, below the top lock, engaged in conversation with the local BW supervisor. He seemed to share her views on the effects of BW pricing increases on the popularity of the canals as a leisure activity because the senior management are not considering the importance of the network as an historical artifact. Through a very dry tunnel and then shared the Wilton flight with another boat as our Braunston partners turned onto the Liecester route. We passed Shepherd Moon moored just below the top lock with no sign of life aboard. Lunch was taken, on the move, once we had completed the locks whilst travelling alongside the M1 which reminded me that I have spent far too much time travelling up and down it recently. Roll on next Friday when I officially become a Vodafone pensioner. We passed Nackered Navvy moored up at Bugbrooke, again no sign of life aboard. Might be tonight's rugby having this Marie Celeste effect. Our favourite 14 day moorings, near Gayton before the Northampton arm junction, were full of continuous moorers who appear to have been moved off of their previous offside position just south of where they are now so we had to continue on to find another location. Did a car shuffle, meeting John P. for a chat at Braunston in the process and then headed home to find our dinner was cooked and waiting for us when we got there.this us the last trip report I will be doing using the Blackberry as it us a very expensive beast to run when you have to pay a bill for it. I will continue posting using GPRS access provided by another network. Unless the requests to stop are many. You will soon get used to me not posting Blackberry typo's (us for is, are for see etc.) as any other method I use will hopefully not have a stupid predictive text system. -------------------------- Graham
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