Burton Hastings To Hartshill.

Do telegraph poles sprout?

On coming back down the Ashby on Thursday we met this BW dredging team in mid channel.






To give them their due though, they did move over as soon as they saw us approaching.
I can't see the dust carts on the road doing that!





This must be some of the slop that they have been rebuilding the towpaths with.
It works well though, not too far from here the grasses are already growing through the parts they have back filled.






Just enough room to slide past and off we went again.





Hows this for a telegraph pole? I honestly could not see any connection to the surrounding hedges. Maybe it was a trapped seed or has the pole sprouted?

Today (Saturday) we have moved on to Hartshill, we were going to Atherstone but after three and a half hours on the back I was getting very cold indeed. The wind was finding every single little gap in my clothes and getting itself in there.

I, therefore am now a fully paid up wuss! According to someone who shall remain nameless.




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Market Bosworth To Hinckley, Then On To Burton Hastings.

A day of contrasts and a night of "How Much.......?"

It wasn't looking all that promising on Wednesday evening.









But come the morning the canal looked inviting once more. It was still cold enough to freeze one of the water point taps at Market Bosworth though, good job the other one leaked because that kept a flow of water moving overnight and it remained working.









Not more than ten minutes out and we hit the ice again, this was decision time then.

We had run very low on supplies and we had to get to Hinckley to try and get a Tesco delivery sooo.........

Do we go on and chance the next three hours or do we reverse back?

It was then a boat came crunching and smashing through the ice from the other direction, our luck was still holding!!










Turn one corner and you were faced with scenes like this.








Turn a different corner and you move into another world.



Hinckley was reached and we moored outside Trinity Marina, made the Tesco order and settled in to wait.

The marina then told us they wanted five of our English pounds to tie to "Their bit" of the bank for the night. No services included......the charge was just for mooring!
We were committed so we had to cough up.

Now I know that some boaters moan about the charge of six pounds a night at the end of the Llangollen, but at least that includes all the electricity you can eat and water supplied from points at every mooring.
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We wont be visiting Trinity again in a hurry.

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Tesco duly arrived this morning and we have now moved, fully laden, an hour down the canal to Burton Hastings in preparation for an assault on Atherstone over the next day or two.



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Market Bosworth.

A giant train set and something to do with trade descriptions.

Wandering off to Market Bosworth on market day we were both looking forward to a good old nose around the stalls and a bit of retail therapy.

Three stalls, a boot fair table and a wagon selling baked potatoes does not, in our book, constitute a market. What a let down that was!!

This line runs alongside the canal here and I think I'm right in saying it is for the enthusiasts.
It certainly has the "proper" look about it. This could have come straight off of someones layout in the shed.

A very thin sheet of ice formed this morning, nothing too bad at all though. One more night here and we will be heading back to Hinckley for supplies.



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