Flecknoe

Here I am Rune

Distance 6.3 miles

Total 1774 Locks 86 Tunnels

Running total mileage 2548.9 miles

Have to say that for the time of year it is still stunningly cold, at the bottom of the Napton flight of locks we had what was almost like a shower of snow, and it will be May on Sunday! In fairness though we didn’t do too badly for being caught by showers as we had moored up to take on water when the snow/hail/sleet storm hit. To give an example of how cold it still is, we bought another two bags of coal today, I wouldn’t normally expect to be doing that at this time of year, I’d normally be thinking about breaking out the T-shirts and sandals.

One small highlight for the day, as evening came on tonight we had a Barn Owl flying around the trees opposite where we are moored, I think that there is some sort of Barn Owl nesting box on a pole alongside the trees which may be where he came from.

The forecast for tomorrow is better, but still not much warmer, but it will probably be a shortish sort of day as we only need to get into Braunston where we can get the weekend shopping. There is always the possibility that, on a Bank Holiday weekend there may be a shortage of moorings so we need to get there reasonably early so that if we cannot moor we have time to press on beyond the Braunston Tunnel where there are more mooring within easy travelling distance of Daventry.