Fenny Stratford southwards to Marsworth Junction, Grand Union Canal
We have made pretty slow progress as time is on our side, and the weather on Saturday was wet AND the Captain has a stinking cold!
After a shop stop at Leighton Buzzard Tesco on Friday, we moored below the Grove Lock. This was a rendezvous to meet friends for the evening. A little light entertainment before dinner in the form of a hire boat with young children dancing on the roof, and of course one fell in, fortunately she held the centre line on the way down so it was easy to retrieve her!
Good beer and food at the Grove and the pub sign depicts the leaking lock gates, and boy do they leak! ""Fullers" is a total misnoma!
Today, Sunday, we teamed up with a family aboard narrowboat Cream Cracker and shared locks all the way to Marsworth Junction. A very pleasant way to spend a sunny morning chatting and laughing until ........................ as we left the last lock, filing out one behind the other, we encountered 2 old narrowboats, movingtowards us, breasted up. Cream Cracker was lucky and managed to take avoiding action and steer around them, but not for us, the 2 old boats came straight for us and smacked us well and truly, causing damage to our bow paintwork mainly because these rogues did not have bow fenders fitted. Ugh!
The incident post mortem really spoiled the next couple of hours, but we are moored up now, and there are lots of smiling people enjoying Bluebell Cafe ice creams in the sun, so we joined them and soon felt better.
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