Winter is coming, a definite change in the weather, though today is not too bad, but rain and high winds are promised over the next few day,and the leaves are falling off the trees into the canal, towpaths and the top of our boat. We leave our mooring after a quiet night, and we have the last four locks to operate on this canal, but Denise has also to operate two lift bridges before we can moor at Hockley Heath.
We had a bit of drama whilst mooring, I was going to reverse about 200 yards into a mooring when a hire boat came around the corner, but instead of slowing down or stopping untill I had completed the manoeuvre they proceeded right up to the last moment which by then he had ploughed into another moored boat, the lady of the boat jumped off and slipped onto her bum, she was wearing white shorts, and she then proceeded to shout at me, in the mean time I had got stuck...... All good fun of boating.
We had stopped at Hockley Heath because we were running low on provisions, so we visited the local shop where we topped up on bits and bobs and then we paid a visit to the butchers where we bought a small chicken.........wait for it .........at the price of £11.87, we were so shocked that we just paid for it, and it was when we got outside we looked across the road and noticed a car showroom that was selling Rolls Royces and McLaren cars in a small village,no wonder the chicken was so expensive.
On the bright side they have a local chippy, so its fish N chips tonight for dinner, that's if we can afford it .we could afford them a little bit cheaper than the chicken, and very nice they were
See you.
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