Cruising slowly

Well some of you will have been expecting a progress report from this years cruise - life conspired against me!
We started off on a sunny (!) morning through Crick tunnel, the next thing I knew was the boat hitting the side and me on the floor - twice.
Turns out the wonderful new pills to reduce my blood pressure worked too well, no pressure left. Mary finished steering us until we could moor and I sat around feeling very peculiar.
Eventually we decided to continue, but slowly.

We had a pleasant cruise down towards Napton Junction and then back up to the Ashby Canal, with only 3 locks (Hilmorton) and the stop lock at Hawksbury to give us exercise.

We managed 3 BBQs and a lot of sitting around in the first couple of weeks, and then the weather changed as you will know, we don't mind the rain for a day or two, we can usually sit it out and wait for the dry weather, but this year it seemed to have deserted us, so we turned around and headed for home.