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MOVEMENTS
1st Oct. Birstall, (Leics Line)
2nd Oct. Kings Lock, Aylestone
3rd Oct. Kilby Bridge
2nd week Oct. Market Harbro’
3rd week Oct. Harbro’, Debdale, Foxton
1st week Nov. Kilby Bridge
2nd week Nov. Barrow upon Soar
Nov-Dec. Sileby, Barrow, Loughborough, drifting with the winds and tides.
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Wednesday 15th August 2012
Its time to leave, our summer cruise is over.
With MiL onboard we paid our last visit to Sharpy. V wheeled Mum down the towpath to the old lock to see the river at high tide and I wandered over the hill to see what ships were in.
The weather was perfect for icecreams on the way back.
The only thing left to do was pay our respects to Purtons hulks, smile and wave for the last time at Sauls camera and buy up the last tray of sausage rolls at Glosters Sainsburys before drawing our summer cruise to a close.
Once Claire and Ter had called in to pick up Mum we plonked ourselves on the wall at Gloucester dock and waved our fists at the seagulls for the last time.
First in the lock at 8 oclock on Saturday we savoured the distinctive local accents until they opened the gates and discharged us onto the River Severn.
Keeping to a modest 4.5 mph we enjoyed the cruise up river to Worcester, V remarking how the colours along the way had changed since we were here in May. One more push and we made it to Stourport, to the good ol Staffs & Worcs canal.
And thats it, done, adventure over, were cruising canals again retracing our steps across the Midlands.
This will be the last Blog for a while. Wed only be taking pictures that appear on a dozen other Blogs and repeating whats already been written by Bloggers weaving their way to and fro across the waterways.
So were hanging up the keyboard, putting up our feet and going quiet for a while.
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Happy Cruising and enjoying your blogging break. xxxxxxx
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Nice one Mo, enjoy the trip.
Geoff
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Will miss your musings, always a treat to read. Don’t forget to come back to it! Happy cruising 🙂
Aly
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keep in touch on Face book, I shall miss my Monday night read, ( I know its Friday but i am a bit behind this week)xxjp
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We too shall miss our Monday reads, although we understand perfectly the reason for the break. Sometimes its a blessed relief to just cruise–without thinking about a blog post! Enjoy your trip back through the Midlands.
Jaq and Les
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Take care Both, I hope you have a nice break, you deserve it after all these years of writing about your trips around the country. Don’t leave it too long before the next Blog though, as these days it’s the best way I have of keeping in touch with what I have left for family, and I will have to dig out Auntie Gladys’s old phone and start making phone calls!
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Thank you everyone for kind words, still enjoying the freedom so won’t be blogging this week.
M&V
(Staffs & Worcs heading for T&M)
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Huh! just getting sorted after our France trip and came to catch up and there you were gone. How will we know where you are?
Can’t complain though, I didn’t blog once on our trip, free wifi with time limits, poor signal that drops out put me off. I decided to give it a miss. Same with the radio.
Right, now for good read to see where you have been.
Ed
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