With more than a tinge of sadness we prepare to leave the canal, after 4 enjoyable years.
We'll miss the wonderful scenery dominated by the Severn, the friends we have met, the space around us and the plentiful water under and around the boat. We won't have our "own" docks to play around in and we'll have to drive to Kingsholm in future to watch the rugby. We'll miss mooring in the proximity to the birthplace of our mighty green throbbing machine, and hope it doesn't get the sulks as we head up north. We've had some glorious summer days, seen nasty floods in the area and the canal seriously frozen for the first time in many years. We've done all the "bold estuary excursions" we need to do on Uncle Mort. We see the Waverley schedule includes a trip up to Sharpness on Tuesday 9th June, so that might be a temptation. So now it's back to ditch crawling, canal rage, queues at locks, windlassery and all that stuff. All being well we'll chug up the river to the premier canal town of Stourport next weekend and ever more Cheshire-wards over Easter. It would be nice to get back down again in time for the Cotswold Canal link completion, but don't suppose we'll have to rush. Beeky
