Strensham Lock, River Avon, Saturday 25th July
I called in to the electrical shop yesterday on our return to Pershore; I wanted a suppressor as the new fridge interferes with the radio. They did not have any in stock, but the owner said that he had some at home, he could bring one for me next morning if that was of any use. It was; he did, and I left the shop a happy bunny.
You don’t get that sort of service from Currys, which is one of the reasons that I try to use locally owned shops whenever possible.
We called into Tesco Metro for a paper. There was one checkout womaned (how PC can you get!) and a queue almost one aisle in length. We put the paper back; Myra will just have to carry on using her 7 week old TV and Radio guide.
Returning to Martlet, we moved off and prepared the lock, there was a hire boat milling around and they shared the lock once we had done all of the filling and gate opening. They had eight people on board, they knew what to do; they were just lazy.
At the next lock a cruiser had joined us, and two boats were waiting to come up; the crews told us to stay on the boat and they would do it all. That evened things out nicely. We stopped for the day at Strensham lock, another mooring with open countryside views.
2009 Totals: 417 Locks – 715.5 miles – 20 Bus pass uses.
