Well, we are now enjoying our 3rd night at Thrupp, a very quiet and tidy mooring spot on the outskirts of Oxford. Very good reception for the Olympics, very busy with moving boats and so waterway entertainment is always on hand. Pub, shop, water, we need for nothing else.
On our way down to Thrupp, we inadvertently moored in Lower Heyford, good spot but it is adjacent to the railway, and so no chance of a decent nights sleep. Won't do that again! Pretty well for the first time this summer we actually came across some CART people reinstating some canal bank, just below Somerton lock. It seems a strange priority when the vegetation on both sides of so much of the waterway is extending across the width of the canal and closing in fast. Picture shows Cart at work.
Until today our plans were to turn round and head back up the canal again, but we have good information that the flow on the Thames is less fast, and so we feel able to go along Duke's Cut, and on upstream to Lechlade tomorrow. .
Our pictures show the boat passing under Thrupp lift bridge - now electric, push button with 2 control boxes, (OTT?) and a clutch of very late ducklings, to taunt the dog!.
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