Leaving "The Brood"

Today the weather is stinking, its pouring down with rain its a shock after the last few weeks of lovey sunshine weather, but we must break our mooring as we were only  permitted to stay in Brewood for 48 hrs but we also desperate  for a pump out.

We only moved on to the next village Wheaton Aston which fortunately had a pump out station, which was Canal and River Trust self pump out station which was a first for us but posed no problems.

We then moored up and baton down the hatches to sit out the rain, which stopped  in the early evening. We decided not to go out tonight so it a telly night and early to bed.

Wheaton Aston  is also one of the few places in the country where the very pretty but very rare Snake’s Head Fritillary, known locally as Folfallarum, grows wild with the village also being the most northerly place it grows. When the plant grew prolifically, it became an annual event for the villagers to pick the flowers on the first Sunday in May. Now the flower grows undisturbed in Mottey Meadows which is in the care of English Nature.