We decided to brave it and to set off even though its still raining, we are dressed for the weather so its not to bad, we take on water and then go to operate our first lock but a family of swans decided that they liked to swim in the lock so it was frantically waving a towel at them and trying to coax them back out with the promise of a bread treat, eventually we managed to get them out and we are on our way.
Farmland and open field are either side of the canal, but can't say we are hanging around to look at them as the rain has become heavy. We pass the villages of Castlethorpe,Yardley Gobion with its canal side wharf, and Grafton Regis where Elizabeth Woodville mother of the Princes in the tower who were reputedly murdered by Richard the third, use to reside in the nearby manor.
We then reach Stoke Bruerne bottom lock the first of five locks to negotiate before mooring for the afternoon and night, luckily it has stopped raining.
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