After a nice quiet night not far from a railway, we set off towards Atherstone at 9am in nice ‘cor what a scorcher’ sunshine – however it soon turned to ‘hints of autumn’. During this lock free part of the cruise, Graham repaired the toilet that he managed to break last evening.
We started up Atherstone flight of 11 locks following another boat with yet another following us. There were plenty of boats coming down so it worked out quite well. There were two volunteer lockies looking after the top two locks and we were soon out and then moored up on the straight above the top lock.
Once lunch was finished, Graham set off to fetch the car from Rugeley whilst Brenda planned to visit the shops of Atherstone, The DiBlasi got a rear wheel puncture on the A5 road near Tamworth so Graham pushed the bike down the slip road and chained it to a fence outside Starbucks. He then consulted Google maps and managed to get to Rugeley using his bus pass on three buses. He then brought the car back to Tamworth to collect the DiBlasi and return it to Atherstone.
Meanwhile Brenda had raided the charity shops for two tops and a book with change from £6 before food shopping in Alde and returning to the boat fully laden.
Back on Jannock and G removed the bike’s back wheel and patched two separate punctures made by a metal spike in the inner tube. Re-assembled and ready to go again all before bedtime. Luckily the boat we are moored in front of had a PIR floodlight mounted alongside the tunnel light which helped him see what he was doing as it got dark.
Easy day tomorrow with only 1 lock to worry about.
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