Monday 1st April Day 254
Cruising day today as we need to get some mileage under our belts but unfortunately I have a crap sleep so end up having a lay in – the change of clocks always seem to effect me. Why can they not just leave them alone! Anyway, it’s up and about 10.30ish and then we decide to put a wash on, fill up with water as we are two seconds away from the water point. Chris has his usual towpath chat with a couple who have just bought their boat and the lay in must have done me good because whilst we are waiting for the washing machine and water to fill up, I dust everywhere, clean the shower room, scrub the floors and hoover everywhere so the The Plot is looking nice and tidy. Then we untie the ropes and it’s off we go.
The weather has been changeable again as we set off and there are spots of rain but eventually it turns into a beautiful spring day with blue skies and enormous fluffy clouds with the odd hint of threatening dark clouds in the distance just so we don’t get too happy about the weather but it really is a glorious day.
We pull in at the marina just on the off chance they are open to fill up with diesel and check about the winter mooring we have enquired about but it is bank holiday so no joy as they are closed and off we go again. We are trying to loosely secure a winter mooring, ideally near somewhere where we can work over winter for a few months as I think the London trip will probably strip us of the rest of our money. If you remember last year we were lucky to get a winter mooring.
We find a nice mooring back at Hinckley in the same spot we moored on the way up and then get the bikes out to cycle to B&M and Tesco to get food shopping, kindle and some logs; which get attached to the back of my electric bike. About 2 mins from the boat one of the threatening clouds decides to unleash some drops of rain but it misses out on completely drenching us but it was a near miss!
Time to make tea and then settle down to watch Dune as we have treated ourselves to a visit to the cinema ((wait… I thought you had to get to London!)) we do, but the cinema tickets are on offer and it’s one of those films that will be good at the cinema. Day done until tomorrow.
Cruising miles : 5 Countdown to London …. 14/198 0/174
C.L. Peache 