Long Itchington to Royal Leamington Spar to Warwick
We all slept well and in fact I had to be woken up! Well, is is not surprising, I did do a great deal of walking and my legs work faster than theirs as I did my checking, smelling and supervising down the Locks yesterday and I am not as young as I used to be. I am as old as my long haired one and catching up on my ancient bearded one fast, this is possible because, as you probably know, my dog years are much shorter than human years. But, come to think of it, I don’t get that many birthday celebrations.
The start of the day is lovely, albeit the sun is struggling to break through the pale grey clouds, the birds are singing and there is not a breath of wind. We have five more locks to complete (the big double ones) before we reach Leamington. My photo today is somewhere in mid flight of the Stockton 21.
We left our mooring after a leisurely breakfast for them (biscuits again for me) and the early morning walk of course. This was quite short today as my bearded one reckoned it was enough because I would get a fair bit of walking later as I assisted my long haired one with the forthcoming lock duty.
Each of the five locks in this section was placed by the engineers conveniently and roughly a ten minute walk apart. This was nearly 600 dog years ago when this section was widened to have double locks but anyway it enabled me to accompany my long haired one on what became another quite a long walk. I have to say that this was the best part. The locks themselves not much fun, they are extremely heavy designed for the no doubt hairy and robust crew of two boats and sadly we were alone again, just my long kennel, my long haired one and me and occasional help from my bearded one on this final descent.
The weather had by the time we finished turned somewhat cold and was delivering a persistent drizzle. The birds had stopped singing. ‘So it was with some joy that we arrived at our safe and friendly mooring at Satisford Canal Centre. I will tell you more of this tomorrow, we will be staying here in Warwick for a couple of nights. My bearded one is threatening to light our fire.
Love Douglas x
It sounds as if the last couple of days have been quite tough, Douglas. I’m sorry the weather has been bad, too.
We had somebody else peering round my house yesterday and Daddy says there is another couple this afternoon. You can see from the picture that I just don’t take any notice of them.
Hope the weather is better soon. Time for my morning sleep.
Love & scratches
Millie
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Hallelujah, I have managed to log in. Fort Knox has nothing on Douglas Diary or am i getting old and useless? So very nice to catch up with your last week and the map was most helpful. We remember all your moorings very well and now that you are in those popular moorings at Saltisford we know exactly where you are. We spent a a very happy day walking around the castle grounds, do hope the weather is good for you. Douglas you seem to be making very good progress and keeping your charges under great control. You are a hard task master. Locks in the rain?? Definitely not for us softies. Will you be anywhere near Stafford on Sunday 9th June? If so we will be there for the day and we could meet up. Enjoy your hols, much love, the crew of Micky Jay xx
Hello MickeyJay yes logging in seems to be a bit of a problem, for my bearded one too! We are leaving Warwick tomorrow up the Hatton Flight I hope we pick up a mate! My long haired one is not looking forward with great enthusiasm. I will se what we can do re Stafford it is just possible must head south on 10th I think.
K DP in touch
Love Douglas x