The cruise continues

Day 2 of our cruise, and, it was rather remiss of me to forget that yesterday was a very important day.....!

n.b. GUELROSE came of age yesterday so......


HAPPY 21ST BIRTHDAY GUELROSE, and here's to the next 21 years (hopefully)

Very little to report today, except that it did not rain. Atherstone Locks were completed with very little trouble and also very little traffic. Is it summer? If so, where have all the boats gone?

2 boats passed us before we cast off and only 2 more boats passed as we climbed the rest of the flight.

Reaching Hawkesbury we found it as congested as ever so continued through the stop lock and onto the Oxford Canal. We eventually moored up on the embankment past Ansty next to the railway, the view is great, and the trains do not really bother us.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: We have now covered about 30 miles of canal. In that time we have seen at least 20 'continuous moorers' (I know as we came this way 6 weeks ago and the same boats are in the same place) Is it time for BW to change their licensing and mooring policies? The average towpath mooring is probably about £1000 (based on what I pay for a garden mooring,) multiply that by 20 boats equals £20000, and, multiply that by the mileage of canals in this country (is it 3000 miles? ) divided by my 30 miles makes 100 times £20000 which equals some £2 million that BW should be getting but isn't. Or have I got it wrong some where??

Continuous cruisers are not the problem (when circumstances are right I shall be one) but continuous moorer are another story.......