Awoke to a wet morning but with a lot of activity outside of the boat, with Canal river trust employees mowing the lawns and so forth. It was hammering down so we decided to sit it out and about 11.00 o'clock the weather broke so we filled up with water again and set for the Fradley Junction lock which was manned today so Denise was set for a easy day, with hardly any locks on the Coventry canal which we were heading for, so a left turn and we were on it.
Denise did have one job and that's was to open the swing bridge at the entrance to the canal, it's a pretty canal with open fields flanking its side, we stop at Streethay Wharf where we had a pump out and bought some paint for the boat, as I was turning the boat the tiller caught on something in the water and the force of it shot me ass over tit over the rail of the rear of the boat, luckily onto another boat otherwise I would of got extremely wet.
WE carry on pass Huddlesford Junction where at bridge 83 the now long abandoned Wyrley & Essington canal ( now called the Litchfield canal )use to join he Coventry.Next village is Whittington here The co-founder of Marks & Spencer plc, Thomas Spencer d. 1905, is buried in St. Giles Church, Whittington.(Wikipedia ) And then pass Whittington firing ranges before mooring at Hopwas for the night,
A swan nesting
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