6th May 2022
Wildlife of the day – a Sika deer.
We awoke to a lovely sunny morning with a bird chorus busy practicing their scales (or should that be feathers as fish have scales) Choir practice was over far too soon as the grey clouds blew in on a cold wind.
Down through Shackerston and Husbands Bosworth with just the occasional northbound boat to avoid, usually at bridge holes. One of the bridges we passed under was suffering but luckily it doesn’t carry vehicle traffic.
En-route, the Cap’n had an engineering idea. We know that Jannock’s new calorifier makes the water too hot – to the point where he had fit a thermostatic valve to restrict the maximum tap temperature. And the new heating pump is a much more powerful model to the old one – what if we leave the pump on whilst the boat engine is running? Yes, it heated the radiators sufficiently to warm the cabin whilst we were traveling. Excellent!
As we approached Hinkley, we spotted a deer in the hedge around the Triumph factory – not scared by us at all, just carried on eating as we passed. We also passed nb Lord Toulouse moored outside Trinity marine. This boat used to belong to good friends of ours – Andrew and Wendy.
As we approached our favourite mooring spot near Burton Hastings we were disappointed to see it full of moored boats but closer inspection showed a Jannock sized space (just) between the last two boats.We moored up and had dinner before it started raining.
G&B
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