Willoughby To Rugby...ish, 3 Locks.


Blackberries, our first frost and then out with the speeding boats.

I did think it was a bit chilly this morning when I woke up, the frost all over the seats in the cratch proved me right.

The sun soon came through though and started to make an impression on the day.

There were so many Blackberries in the hedgerow that it was difficult to stop collecting them, the Apples came from Calcutt Boats for a donation to their charity box.
Another crumble is on the way!

Nature really can seem to be so cruel sometimes.
The same parents that have been nurturing, feeding and vigorously defending their cygnets up to now have got to turn on them and drive them away.
It seems that as soon as the cygnets turn white it is like a red rag to a bull to the parents and they must go.
If a teenage swan can look bewildered that one certainly did.

It's a good job we human parents don't adopt a similar attitude to our teenagers.
Mind you, on the other hand............................

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Heading off to Hillmorton and beyond we passed this advert.

I think that they might be being a bit ambitious with the opening date.

Getting to Hillmorton today was one long round of letting boats - who are going far too fast - go past us. These were mainly boats from Braunston Marina tearing off out for the weekend.
One culprit tore past us as I pulled over with all the thanks and waves only to have us pass him at the pub moorings fifteen minutes later.

Perhaps they had missed "Beer o'clock"!!!

We are now back at the moorings just outside of Rugby.
Our new plan "A"  means that we have a certain amount of back tracking to do, still......at least we know where we are going.




Until next time.......................




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I have finally got the other page working, please have a look at it by clicking the tab at the top of the Blog.
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