<p>Ah, what a wonderful summery Autumn. We're on the cut, heading south, working our way to the Buckby flight of locks for Pete to volunteer as Lock Keeper for a.....day! He's been working Hillmorton on weekends in September, though we had planned to be in Stoke Bruerne for the volunteering there. The water levels have been so low that lock keepers have been needed at most of the flights to make sure boaters share locks when they can and if at all possible, don't go into a lock unless someone is coming out of it - therby saving more than 80 tonnes of water (per boat).
We have an unusually warm week ahead, 25 today and no lower than
13 tonight and all this anticipated for a small while. So we were so itching to get out! We worked our socks off this morning, pulled into the maintenance point for diesel around 3 this afternoon and enjoyed moving home! A glorious day and we're now moored up at what we call North Willoughby moorings, a few miles north of Braunston. Homemade tomato parmesan bread and veg soup happily await.
Cheers!
