Beeston cut and Nottingham canal

A quiet and restful night close to Beeston lock, but the morning arrived very windy. I volunteered to walk into Beeston, about a mile away,for a paper, some fruit and milk, It has to be said I was less than impressed with Beeston, particularly as the first shop encountered was a dark and dingy affair. Despite being labelled a newsagent and general store they had no papers, fruit or milk. A voice from a dark corner informed me they would have no newspapers till Tuesday ( today being Saturday ! )   so I walked a little further to find a Co-Op where I bought all I needed, having queued behind some man at the till who was using loud and colourful language to the young, femail shop assistant complaining about the general election result yesterday. Beeston is best described as a social housing town with boarded up shop windows and labour election posters in the windows. I felt a little nervous walking through it.  The wind dropped and the sun appeared by early afternoon so we headed off towards Nottingham, aiming to moor on the "safer" city outskirts whilst still on the Nottingham canal.

A friendly boater suggested mooring at Sainsbury's near Castle Marina, which, by some miracle, we achieved. So we have swopped a rural mooring next to a sports field for an urban mooring overlooking ATS Tyres, Pizza Hut and Sainsbury's, all within an afternoon.  Beeston Cut is quite pleasantly rural whilst the Nottingham Canal is industrial. Tomorrow we're back on the River Trent and Fosdyke Navigation.