Ditchford

Here I am Rune

Distance 8.6 miles

Total 4150 Locks  264 Tunnels

Running total mileage 6,384.3 miles

 

As planned we’ve got as far as Ditchford FORN moorings, and a very pleasant location it is. Nicely isolated, railway line nearby, but not too near, otherwise very peaceful. We’re still plodding on with just the one alternator, which does squeal a bit in the morning when starting up but so far has then behaved itself, hope it continues to do so until we get to Northampton.

We think we’ve now gone through the last manually operated guillotine bridge, although raising a ton and a half of gate is a reasonably good work-out, you can have too much of a good thing!

Not sure exactly where we’ll get to tomorrow, will call in at Wellingborough for the sanitary station, but I’ve a horrible feeling it was locked up when we came down, hope it is back working although even if it isn’t we still have sufficient capacity to get us to Northampton.