We’re nearly to Paddington (Paddo!). We stopped at Batchworth to take on water and put off waste, then cruised by all manor of boats, including a caravan on pontoons. Almost all the locks were set against us, but with Elizabeth and Blossom going ahead to wind lock gates and paddles, Pete and Bella could almost always just float in. We needed to stop along the way to pull a shirt and plassy bag from the weed hatch. In Uxbridge, at Cowley Peachy lock (the last until Paddo), Elizabeth met one of her project management students who works for Environment 21, a Thames and Grand Union Canal society.
