Date - 3 May 07 Day - Thursday Start - 1000 Lashbrook End - 1630 Goring Lock
Last night proved to be a very good mooring and this morning was a slightly later start than intended. This was due to the weather being dull and we didn't wake as early as normal. This was after the early awakening I had with the ducks trying to clean the waterline of the hull.There was also another strange noise which I couldn't identify, it sounded a bit like a short bark, I think it was a bird but it may have been a mammal, but what I don't know. We set off at 10 am just after a geriatric rowing team had been by with their cox using some very colourful language when asking them if there was any chance of them pulling together. There were a few more boats about today and we ended up sharing several locks. We called in at Reading Tesco to use the £4 off voucher that we picked up there last week. We caused bit of a hold up at the checkout when our Tesco Card disappeared down the end of the conveyor belt. The lady on the checkout was determined to retrieve it using everything from School tokens to a plastic plant label from a pot plant. She eventually succeeded by yanking bits off and springing the stainless steel top cover by wedging her fingers in it. We cleared Kings Lock just before the locky went for lunch and continued up through the town. Don was just going to Natterjack II so we pulled in and had a few word with him before passing Poplar Island where the sunken narrowboat is still lying. Just above Whitchurch Lock we passed a familiar boat "One Moore" moored on the long term moorings. We pulled in to moor just below Goring Lock but found that our gunwale would slide under the timber work so we dropped about a quarter of a mile downstream and moored in the trees against a fishing platform. -- Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Visit this site and help save our waterways http://www.savethewaterways.org.uk/
