Meeting the Wandering Snails in Fazely

Friday 3rd September

We saw sunshine today, the first time in about a week. There was the first picking of Damsons too. We were told, before we left Brinklow, that a boat had been in the marina and asked after us while we were at home. Turns out it was Anne and Olly on Wandering Snail who spent a while in Brinklow selling their wares.

From Polesworth we passed Alvecote and then down through the locks at Glascote and then who should we meet, just after bridge 74 but the Wandering Snails. We pulled over and tied up behind them and then went for a cuppa and a long catch-up chat as it’s years since we last saw them. We’ll catch up more in a few weeks as they are signed up for the same BCNS weekend cruise as we are.

 

Turning left at Fazely put us on the Birmingham and Fazely canal heading for Curdworth locks. Part way up the flight, where HS2 is due to cross the canal, the HS2 contractors have installed equipment to monitor for any changes to the locks either side of the crossing. I loved the way the enclosures had been labelled.

 

Out the top of the flight and we moored at Minworth to get dinner at the Hare and Hounds. Brexit/Covid – we find out who the key workers WERE and are! No draught cask beer in tonight’s food pub and a restricted menu due to shortage of supplies. Never mind, the meal we had was fine.

Lovely quiet mooring apart from the aircraft coming into Birmingham which ceased at midnight and started at 6am, and the lorries in the yard opposite who also started early as well.

G&B