B&F to Tame Valley

i'm getting used to having extra crew it gives me more time in bed hehe, the boys were up and moving by 10.30 again.

Most of the locks have tree's and bridges.

Inside curdworth tunnel

Curdworth 52 metres long

Curdworth

Dinner sorted tonight

Caters bridge from here you need a handcuff key on the locks

 Going under the M6 bridge

 

 

 

M6

Junctions




 Decisions, Decisions.

B&F to city centre

Birmigham & Warwick Junction canal

 Tame Valley Junction it is then.

it was a bit narrow here glad nothing was coming the other way

Tame valley canal

M6 again further up

don't look like many boats go up here

i was right, gates are bone dry

This came out of the lock it's been that long since it was used

moored up for the night and went to tesco which is almost opposite aston villa ground

The River Tame

 

 

                                                                13 miles and 15 locks

Another hot day

The boys were up at 9.30 this morning and has we had no locks to do today i had a little lie in till 11.30.
nick has caught the sun and my daughter said he looks like a mexican convict here he is messing about.
 See what i have to put up with lol

Mexican Convict

Boat covered in vinyl wrap.

Peel's Wharf

Garden gnomes and a statue

Fazely Junction

Coventry Canal

Turning onto the B&F canal

Junction bridge

It's a bit low under here

Unused swing bridge

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Drayton Manor footbridge

                                                      12 Miles 0 Locks

Onwards and upwards

another scorching day, up at 9am and on the move at 10am partly down to chris saying "come on lazy gits lets go" lol i can see me wanting a holiday when he's gone back home.
Chris bought a suprise for us when he arrived yesterday.

Floating flower shop

Our old ones are from 1993

The whole set of what we need.

They smelt lovely as we passed

It was too hot to fill the cafe

Fradley Junction, last lock for the day.

View from the cratch

                                                                 10 miles and 11 locks

On the move again

It was a very hot morning when we got woken  up at 10am by a text message from sheila saying they were on the way to see us, nick was going to check out her solar settings, so they arrived in style at about 12'o'clock and they had already sorted out some of the issue's by the time they had arrived so nick's job was easy and it was soon sorted and working better, jim was very hot and needed a haircut so i suggested we leave nick and sheila to it while i cut his hair he decided to have a number 3, sheila said he looks like a convict which made me laugh Bless but he felt so much better after, so we said our goodbyes and was on our way to pick chris up from the station at willington, chris arrived at 1.17pm and we continued up the T&M to horninglow basin to water up, had a chat with chief who moors there he's a great guy, him and his mate are in the process of taking a WB back to metal and repainting it for an elderly couple from france, they shipped it over here and craned it in at horninglow. so tank full and off we go again, stopped at burton to do some shopping but waited till it cooled down and in the meantime had a nap after being up so early, well early for us. no pictures today as i was too busy chatting and enjoying the sunshine.

Boat Repaint

So we have had a great journey to leighton buzzard and back to shardlow, now its time the old gal had a new coat, i think she deserves one don't you? here are a few pic's of what she looked like before.
looking very shabby to say the least.

Then came the solar panels. 5 in total = 950 watts.

looking from the back

Then the in between bits.

OH!! what a mess she is now. Someone i know said she looks stolen lol, thank's sheila















All she needs now is a good buffing to make her shine.

and here she is all shiney and clean. from the front.

and from the back

The other side from the front

And from the back

 

A rest is in sight

and so we come to the end of our journey for now.

 New marina just up from streethay wharf

 Looking back at fradley junction                                         Graffiti under the bridge at Arlewas

 We found a friends boat that he sold last year, i emailed it to him and he was pleased it still looked nice.

 Old working boat

 Bella and her stone

 Sam hiding in the grass.














 Geese and her babies.

 

Slow boat to .....................

looks like summer may have finally arrived at last, just wish the nights would be a little warmer tho.

Old wooden boat on dry standing at alvecote

Narrowcraft hire base in the old colliery basin

             the River Anker at Amington after a little retail therapy

Aquaduct over the River Tame

                                              Cute little boat.



















                           
               












     President and his butty














Now that's what i call a Big Wheel.