Date - 25 October 2007 Day - Thursday Start - 10 am End - 5 pm Banbury Last night after going to bed Diana decided to get out and visit the loo, I asked her to check the stove was OK while she was out. She came back with the news that the galley floor was wet. We both went to investigate further and found a very wet patch just by the galley unit which has the water pump housed in its base. Sure enough the pump was leaking very slightly out of the housing weep hole while it was pumping, so first job this morning was to change out the pump. Luckily we carry a spare. We set of at 10 am and met so many boats it was almost unbelievable, we must have met the entire Napton fleet of Black Prince boats, 5 in Banbury alone. Several Ownerships, quite a few Anglo Welch, a few Rose and Napton Narrowboats, even a few private ones. The only lock we turned was the bottom of Claydon. Cropredy now seems to have been seeded with car tyres, I fished the first one out by the long term moorings, just floating in the middle of the cut with a piece of rope attached. The next one I hit with the prop and it came to the surface just south of Cropredy where they hold the music festival and later on I saw a third almost submerged but to far over to fish out, goodness knows how many I didn't see. We approached the centre of Banbury just on 5 pm after passing and waving to "Daniel Oakley". We were a bit undecided whether to push on for half an hour but as it was just starting to drizzle we pulled over by the shopping centre for the night. I have just been informed that we are going out to eat tonight. -- Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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