Congerstone, Ashby Canal Leicstershire

Well, we might have been back onboard 4 days, but we haven't been very far! After a pumpout at Ashby Boats, by a mobile tank on a Reliant Robin! we moored at Dadlington, and what a cold night - not far off a frost.

  On Friday we walked into Stoke Golding, neat village with good shop, and then boated on to our current spot at Conglestone. In view of the Family Festival weekend here, we were incredibly lucky to get a mooring at all, even though it has meant over 2 miles walking to and from the show site. Historic boats galore, and they kept on passing us late into Friday evening, 70footers, towing, and serious boaters with boiler suits, the women too!

We ventured into the show site on Saturday with the dog - wrong - took him back to the boat and went back - loads to see historic cars, old tractors, traction engines, dog training, Theakstons ales, sheep dog herding ducks, mower racing, etc etc. A very big show, that continued on into Sunday. We were a little disappointed that the  Battle of Britain Memorial flight didn't happen, but we enjoyed the overhead flying from a spitfire.- that got everyone out of the beer tent!

Our show ticket gave us a discounted rate for the Battlefield Line, a steam train ride up to Shenton and the Bosworth Battlefield site, so we duly took advantage of that.

The picture shows the Blue Circle Engine, apparently it once belonged to blue circle cement.



Good weekend - well organised show - .