I guess sooner or later we were going to have, not such a great day - and this was it!! On the positive side we are a day ahead of where we planned to be:-) Which means we should get onto the Thames on Friday now instead of Saturday (Rod has to work tomorrow and Thursday), I sure hope it is going to live up to all the positives we have heard about it and today will soon seem like a distant memory.
The morale of today's story is know when you are well off!! And the story goes something like this.........
We had a plan to get from Copper Mill Lock to just before the Slough arm, and we duly stopped at said spot, but....... We didn't really like it that much we were right under a strongly scented tree, and a kid on a small motor bike came flying down the towpath so we had a sandwich, had a dither and decided to move on...... 5 hours and 9 locks later we arrived at Brentford, you can go no further without getting onto the tidal section of the Thames...... The visitors moorings were all full, there would have been space if some plonker hadn't moored right in the middle of a gap and then cleared off, so we are now shoe horned in between a couple of boats just a bit further back.
This now means Rodney is going to have to reverse back to the moorings, should a boat move tomorrow morning. So as I said the morale of the story is know when you are well off and stay there:-)
On top of all of that George fell off the back of the boat at Uxbridge while we were waiting to go into the lock, lucky he had his harness on, so he has been a bit of a stress head all day as well.
Think we just chalk this one down to experience, tomorrow is another day!!
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