After a lovely quiet night in the picturesque surroundings of Tixall wide, we set off this morning in improving weather after last night’s rain and had a bitty sort of day.
Up to Gt Haywood junction and hard right towards Rugeley. At Haywood lock we went straight in after an ascending boat had left. Then onto Colwich lock where we arrived to be third in the queue – one ascending boater told us of queues of ten boats yesterday late afternoon so they had moored up and spent the night below the lock. I wonder if that queue was caused by the towing pair we met at Tixall lock yesterday. They had already slowly completed two locks when I spoke to them there.
We continued on to Rugeley where we moored up near bridge 66 just before 1pm. A quick lunch and we walked up to Wharf road to catch the 828 bus to Stafford. The 828 didn’t arrive but we caught the 826 fifteen minutes later. This took us to Gaol square bus station where we alighted and walked down to Sainburys where we caught the 5A to Gnosall Heath to fetch the car. We love our free bus travel passes.
Back at Rugeley just after 4pm so Brenda went to Tescos for provisions while Graham parked the car and opened up the boat.
We then set off and passed through Armitage tunnel to moor for night at bridge 58 Handsacre. This is the location of Michael’s fish and chip shop where we fetched our supper from. The residence opposite where we are moored is a duck feeding house and chaos broke out when the food appeared just after Graham had tied us up.
G&B
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