By The Way: Brinklow to Hawkesbury Junction, 9 miles, 1 lock, 1swing bridge, 4 hours

A bit of a disjointed day today, but before that just need to share that it is not just me that ends up biking twice as far - poor Rodney ended up doing 20 miles yesterday, as the route he had planned had a rather large ford in it, which is not a good idea on a fold up bike, so a detour was required. We did get to TGI Fridays, oh and B&Q!!

We set off at 8:00 this morning to get in an hours cursing before Rod had to go to Crick to do a handover of Michael's boat to the new owners. It was a lovely bright start.

From Crick he was then off to Wharf House to make a couple of purchases for By The Way - any guesses as to what the main purchase was, there is a clue in the picture below (spot the addition).

I took the opportunity to go for my last run before next weekend, managed 10.5 miles which I was really pleased with. As I was running along one of the country lanes, there was an old guy outside his cottage with a scythe, he shouted out "what are you running away from" I felt like saying you with that scythe in your hand!! (was like something from a horror film - slight exaggeration!).

We were aiming to get to about 2 miles past Hawkesbury Junction, (this is the junction of the Oxford and Coventry canals) but as you can see the sky was get pretty dark, and we decided to take the first spot we saw, which turned out to be a very good idea, as just as we stopped the heavens opened.