Friday 17th October Having finished work early, we went and moved Jannock from Horton up to Marsworth. All seven locks were transited solo but we did pass several craft heading North. The weather was warm and sunny with little wind which made for a very pleasant afternoon cruise.
Saturday 18th October Today we had very special visitors on Jannock. Rosie and Tom are our neighbour's children and they came with their mum for a trip. Rosie had previously expressed amazement when she learnt that our boat had beds and a cooker inside and so we decided a visit was in order. We set off from Marsworth and they helped us up the flight of seven locks up to the summit level at Bulbourne. They worked the gates and Tom had a go at lifting a paddle although he needed help to start it off. As we approached the top lock of the flight we found that once again we were following Fulbourne and Angel. Onto the summit and we pulled over and then had a hot snack, cooked in the oven just for Rosie. Our visitors then left us to walk back down the flight to their car as Rosie had a birthday party to attend that afternoon and we needed to continue South towards our home mooring. The cutting down through Tring was full of floating autumn which meant a lot of reverse shifting to clear the leaves from Jannock's propeller. Cowroast and Dudswell locks were passed through <http://lh3.ggpht.com/keensfamily/SPsEEyVcpOI/AAAAAAAAAFo/bcEWR3wJaQE/s1600- h/IMGP1782s%5B3%5D.jpg> solo as were all of the Northchurch flight and guess who we caught up here? As we were waiting to pass through Berkhamstead bottom lock another boat arrived and so we shared the rest of the locks down to Sewer lock with them. Fulbourne and Angel pulled over for a well deserved pint at the Rising Sun and so we then found ourselves following the breasted pair, one going forwards and one going backwards, that Fulbourne's skipper had been complaining about when we caught them up. Not really a day for getting a shift on then. We arrived back at Bourne End just after 5pm, having been away for six months and seven days, and then Julian took me back to Marsworth to fetch the car. F & A passed our mooring just before we headed off to spend a very pleasant evening in the White Horse with Julian and Caro. Graham www.jannock.org.uk [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
