Sitting in the sun doing nothing, except the occasional bit of housework and dog walking.
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12:51 28/05/2009 0 miles 0 locks
Shopping in Morrisons and a wondeful shop selling car, household and pet things. So stocked up with spares to mend the headlight, dog chews and a plunger to clear the sink - back to normal life.
We then cruised up the short run to our chosen rest stop for a days R & R. A very nice mooring on the Shropshire Union Canal.
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Started work on the headlight mending, which involved moving the horn to the stern and making a short cable for it. Luckily I first cut out a crimped connector in the bow to replace with one I bought, to find that was the fault. So a new crimped connector and all was well.
We had a nice BBQ and taking Bella for a walk later discovered our friends John and Mo from Crick two boats behind us, so we all chatted for a couple of hours.
17:21 27/05/2009 22 locks 8.56 miles.
Early start as we had to tackle the (in)famous Wolverhampton 21, 2 hours to get there from the Museum, and four hours hard slog down the locks. Luckily, although there are a lot of them, they all work well. So after nearly 7 hours we reached Autherly Junction at the start of the Shropshire Union canal.
So far we have travelled for 69 miles, and tackled 103 locks.
17:15 26/05/2009 0 miles 0 locks
Spent today exploring the Black Country Museum. Well worth a visit if you have not been, make sure you are there at opening time (10am), as you really need a whole day, especially if you want to spend time in the replica 'pub' from 1920! We didn't of course - well not for more than a couple of pints to test the local bitter.
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The site is covered in buildings which have been imported from around the area and faithfully rebuilt, if they were leaning when taken down they still lean now. And include things like a Hardware shop, chemist, Baker, Nail & Chain maker, Coal Mine (replica) sweet shop, fish and chips shop, and school.
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18:20 25/05/2009 9.3 miles 3 locks.
Fairly peaceful night considering where we were moored - Bank holiday revellers were kind to us.
Out of Gas Street and up the Birmingham main line canal, almost like driving up a Roman road it is so straight, we made excellent progress, a bit weedy but nothing bad, so we soon reached the three locks that let turn down to The Blck Country Museum. Mooring was full so we breasted up with Whistler and settled out in our chairs on the bank making plans for tomorrow. A day off from cruising to visit the museum site.
Not as much sun as yesterday, but not the promised thunderstorms.
18:12 24/05/2009 10.1 miles 0 locks.
Late start, due to crew sleeping in!
An interesting cruise past Birmingham suburbs, Solihull, Bourneville, and Edgbaston. We had an emergency stop after this as Chris and Helen had an alternator fall off the engine. We all stopped and discussed the problem and called out RCR - the canal AA. We left them there and went off to find moorings at Gas Street Basin.
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