Alvechurch to Tardebigge
3.25 miles, 0 locks
We woke to a much better morning.
Now it was dry we had a proper look at the C&RT notice to find out that the mooring prohibition is from 14th October to 15th November, so we could have saved ourselves a soaking if we had read it properly in the first place!
It was a swift hours journey with two tunnels - Shortwood and then Tardebigge
En route Chris spotted this row of trees that were neatly trimmed at the bottom third giving them the look of a 'Peaky Blinders haircut'.
As we emerged to a very windy Tardebigge New Wharf we found Cecelia (our canal society's trip boat) on the water point waiting for their passengers to alight for a trip to Hopwood and back.
We breasted up until the passengers were safely on board.
We had a right royal tussle getting back onto the service point - the wind was determined to blow us back across the cut. We made it eventually and emptied and filled as required before heading off down the top lock where we moored after the first bridge.
Sunday 29th September to Tuesday 1st October
Tardebigge
Our daughter re-united us with our car on Sunday which gave us the freedom to come and go between boat and home. We made good use of the washing machine, tumble dryer and shower at the latter. Monday we collected our grandson (G) from the school bus and took him to his own home. Tuesday we collected his younger brother from his school, then G from the school bus again. They had tea with us and their Dad delivered us back to the boat, so we can resume our journey tomorrow (Wednesday 2nd October)
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