Well, every cloud has one, and ours appeared around 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon when the rain finally stopped (that was after at least 12 hours with no let up), blue skies appeared and the sun came out. Another glorious evening on the canals in fact.
By this time we'd already decided to stay put and support Andy Murray and as this involved some alcohol proceeding up the locks would probably have been a bad idea in any case.
So we settled on a plan - a long day today. And indeed we have had one - slightly over 10 hours cruising which has taken us from Atherstone to Clifton-on-Dunsmore ( a journey which would have taken 35 minutes by road). We have had more than a few showers and a thunderstorm , but mainly it's been sunny and pleasant.
We now plan to get to a favourite mooring by tomorrow lunchtime, in order to witness the historic Wimbledon final, then gently cruise back to base on Monday morning.
26 miles, 8 locks
Wildlife: quite a few butterflies today, for the first time. Also we've been charmed by moorhen chicks - little fluffy black ping-pong balls with red beaks. Altogether now - aaah!
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