Here I am Rune
Distance 0 miles
Total 874 Locks 40 Tunnels
Running total mileage 1262.1miles
Another standstill day today (and probably another one tomorrow)
to enable me to complete all of the boaty sort of tasks. We now have a pretty
much full water tank, enough coal for another 12 days, most of the rubbish
disposed of and stocked up on shopping. Even if we’d been moving we’d probably
have given this morning a miss since it was pretty wet, not really stopping
raining until after lunch.
At the moment the cunning plan is to stay here until
probably Saturday then move to Bumble Hole (via Park Head to see the other end
of Dudley tunnel) and then head back through towards New Main Line on Monday as
we’d like to travel along Wednesbury Oak Loop to the Bradley Workshops (where
they make the gates for the Locks). This can only be done during business hours
Monday to Friday since the winding hole at Bradley Workshops is only available
at the time, as we found out last time we travelled the Oak Loop we could only
go as far as the first winding hole or else we’d have had to reverse about a
mile back from the workshops and narrow boats are a real pig to reverse.
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