Saturday & Sunday - Hatherton to Nr Brewood - 9 miles, 1 lock, 4 hours

Saturday

We had to be up early as we needed to drive back to Hinckley as the hire company wanted to swap out the van.  Whilst this was a pain in the preverbial, it was worth it, as we are now in a brand new VW Transporter.  It was not an easy job as anyone that has seen the inside of the van will appreciate!! But we unloaded most of the stuff at the storage place then swapped the van and reloaded.

When we got back Rod and George continued the theme of gathering wood, not sure George actually helped that much!!

But the had fun.

Sunday

Whatever happened to Sunday being a day of rest? (I know our life is one long rest!).  We need to be up early again, for two reasons 1.  Mike was meeting us at 11:00 on his way to London for the NFL

2.  We were approaching a really narrow section of canal, which is only wide enough for one boat, with passing places, so we wanted to get through before it got too busy.  So we set off at 7:30.

We were really lucky we passed nothing on the narrow stretch.

We the arrived at the junction of the Staff &Worc with the Shropshire Union.  So we are now on the Shroppie heading for Chester.

We met Mike at about 11:30 then had a lovely walk in the afternoon, poor little George is knackered again!!  The main purpose of the walk was to go to the shop, according to the Co-op website the nearest one was at Covan, once we got there we decided we may as well carry on and get the van - when we drove back we discovered there was a Co-op in Brewood -they need to work on their search engine on their store locator!!

Managed to cook my first roast dinner, which for those of you that have seen me cook a roast is no mean feat, as usually the kitchen looks like a bomb has gone off!  It's amazing how tody you can be when you have to:-)

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