Tuesday 26 May 2015

Sunrise over Aldi

Having moored at a "middle of nowhere location" next to a stream and weir. A helpful boater later pointed out there is an Aldi next to the canal round the next corner !  This morning we have blue sky and sunrise over Aldi. We are again cruising with "Dormouse" and arranged a 0900 departure. Sadie Yoko Ono was on top form last night, waking us at midnight and 0400 for no other reason than she can. We're starting to worry about our boat electrics again ( or is it paranoia?)as it seems they are not performing to their full potential again. We're monitoring closely, or perhaps, too closely?
Our early morning foraging at Aldi awoke the dormouse and an earlier start than planned occurred at 0830. In the blink of an eye we had traversed the Fosse shopping centre and Everard's brewery (Tiger Beer),the 15th century packhorse bridge, Aylestone, South Wigston, Kilby bridge and Newton Harcourt. Having exhausted ourselves on the day's 16 locks, mostly very tough and one broken,lots with anti-vandal locks and no gate paddles, we sought mooring for further than we wished, ending up in the middle of nowhere somewhere in the vicinity of Wistow Hall and Wistow rural centre. 
The locked locks were a topic of conversation for the evening, given the affluence of their location compared with Leicester and Loughborough. Upper crust vandals perhaps?

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