Thursday 13 April 2017

Hopwas

Been a grey day, coats and wooly hats were this crews boating attire today along with the majority of other boaters. There was one skipper who heralds from Cape Town wearing shorts, I did notice that she had especially hairy lower limbs though. 

Nine locks in the Atherstone flight were descended slowly, not much in the way of traffic today but I would expect that to change tomorrow.




Sheep mutation

It's that time of year

One of the Atherstone locks




A popular early crop for farmers





A long day at the tiller got us to Hopwas, this will allow a short cruise tomorrow.

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