Hello everyone. It's Pugwash again. Sorry I didn't blog our progress last night: we were moored in a no signal area, Far from the madding crowds, if you will allow me a quote.
Well now yesterday was a kinda long day we boated from Market Drayton to Knighton were we moored up for an hour and a half and visited what is now a Premier Foods facility. Back in Chocolate Charlie's day it was a Cadbury site producing chocolate crumb, as I mentioned before. We were met by the location manager and a large number of his team. They had strung up bunting and applauded and took a lot of photos as we were made very welcome with speeches, coffee and some lovely goodies. Finally, before we left, the most important part of the proceedings, we loaded a token cargo into Mendip's hold and set off for our overnight stop at Norbury Junction and guess what happened next.............wow, you got that right - we found a pub about 80 metres from where we moored. However, before entering the noble hostelery for the dry weevily bread and the tot of rum we had the daily boat domestics to complete. Then we were off!
This morning dawned very wet in heavy rain so it was full set of wet weather gear on before we even opened the boat! we have boated to Wolverhampton today and have just moored for the evening. After yesterday's 11 1/2 hour run we had a short day today of only 9 hours. Today we travelled the Wolverhampton 21 flight which for non boaters is a flight of 21 locks raising the canal 132 feet on to the Birmingham Canal Network. (BCN). This flight took just over 2 hours to complete not quite a record but close.
We have moored in what was the Fellows, Morton & Clayton (FMC for short) yard by kind permission of British Waterways the present owners. There has been a lot of interest in our trip by passing boaters and we have again continued to distribute a lot of explanatory leaflets. Additionally, walkers and cyclists have taken lots of photos and taken a lot of leaflets. Morale on both boats is high and we are nearly at the high point of the trip. More about this over the next two days.
Finally, we thank an old friend of BMS, Dave Rae of Norbury Junction Wharf. He stayed open later to allow us to refuel the boats and recharge our water tanks.
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