We thought that this morning, we would be travelling back to Blue Haven from Braunston. We expected to have set out from Newbold on a fine sunny day, glide by the wharf at Hillmorton and continue south to Braunston for 24 hours. But how the weather turned!!! We set out on the 1st to Springtime and we came back into the marina yesterday to winter clouds. Harumph! You can see how the weather lost is sun in these photographs. But the photos themselves are interesting. Along the cut, we came across these men making traditional fencing for a field. The man in the dark jacket was cleaning willow sticks of their small branches with a machete, making a point at one end, then ramming them into the ground along the fence line. The other man was using more willow and the branches of the hedges along the path to weave into the uprights and to weave a top section. It is wonderful to see these traditional crafts continue. The sight of that warmed us up, even though the weather was cold enough for Pete to have had to go inside to put his thermals on - in the Spring!
