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Started the day off with a bang! Bashed my head on the underside of the hatch - ouch! don't remember ever doing that before! 07.30 and away I go, not meeting another boat until the middle Claydon lock, and the second at the top! Canal as shallow as ever, only met 2 oncoming boats in the long narrow bit, but it got a bit more...

Hmmm - 0730 again! Still, It'll stand me in good stead for the much dreaded return to work on Monday. A very pleasant looking morning, becoming more cloudy as it wore on. Had the canal to myself (surprise surprise!) Found a boat untied, but couldn't do anything and a naked bloke on the side of his boat - he disappeared when he saw...

A lie in listening to the rain! Which soon stops. Penny packs her bags, a bit of a sort out in the boat and we move the couple of hundred yards to tie up outside the Rose Revived. Kim duly arrives, I take another beer and we have lunch in the sunshine. Kim and Penny return to the real world and I'm all alone! So, an afternoon cruise to...

Dull and overcast this morning, but soon cheered up with a very nice bacon roll! A steady plod along the 6 miles and up the 3 locks to Lechlade, as good as on our own again, at St Johns lock just before lechlade we were the first boat through this morning and it was now 11.00! We were amused by the tame ducks at Buscot lock, apparantly the...

And the day probably dawned, if we could have seen it that is! It's raining, can't complain, been out for nearly 4 weeks and had the umbrella up for less than 30 minutes in total, not bad methinks! So, through Clifton Lock, the first one we've done fully ourselves (before 9.00 so self service) Then by the proposed site for the...