Hi All!
On the advice of the Teddington Lock keepers, I phoned up Brentwood Lock to arrange a passage through the lock from the Thames onto the Grand Union at the high water tide tomorrow.
Those that will know, will be aware that there is an answering service at that lock, you have to leave a message stating boat name, phone number etc. I left my message at 10-15 this morning! Tomorrows morning hight tide at Richmond is at about 09-05 am, so locking out at Teddington at that time would be fine for entering Brentwood an hour or so later! I have waited all day at the Kingston Moorings for the reply to that phone call. No reply has been given by Brentford. So, what do I do now? Do I sit here and wait for that call or do I mosey on down to Teddington Lock first thing in the morning and perhaps take the tide and see if I can find a safe mooring outside the Brentwood Lock Gates, or do I just sit here, by then overstaying at these Kingston Moorings, and wait? Also by then, of coarse, my transit permit from the Wey to Teddington would have run out as well. At 4-30 this afternoon I did repeat my message to Brentford just in case they had tried to phone me and because of bad phone reception, didn't get the reply call, which is very good here! What's to do? Nipper