A trip to Rugby to buy a bin!

29th - Moored Hillmorton, Oxford Canal

A morning out in Rugby made a change from watching the passing hire boats streaming by this half term, so many were going through that the top gates of the middle locks here were overflowing with water making it very difficult for the crews to open the bottom gates.

I got some white card in the town in readiness for the special Christmas cards I am going to make with the pictures of NP last January and February during the snow at Bathampton on the Kennet and Avon.

I also bought a bin

I have always wanted one of those silver bins which you just press the top and it opens, the bin we have always had has no top because when I bought it all those years ago, I picked up the wrong size top.... and it was while I was buying the card, that a young lad dispatched some litter into the bin that I had just put down at the pay desk! His mother was not amused as I reached into the bin and took out the lads litter and handed it back to him, and on being passed on to his mother she deposited it in her pocket and gave me not even a smile, but hey, it's my bin, I'll christen it myself later!!

There is a lot of downland here, with tons of radio masts going back to the horizon. But the walks across the countryside are non existent, even looking on the ordnance survey website, maps of the area are showing no footpaths so Lucy and I have just been walking the towpath this week, I am looking forward to going back to Calcutt were footpaths are in abundance, we have decided to stay here for the weekend. I want to write a couple of pages for the blog, one about our engine change and the other about the Jam Hole Run. Vic thinks our roof can take yet more logs in between the flowers, so he will be at it in the woods with a chain saw tomorrow. At least while the roof is covered in wood no painting will be done on it this year although it is peeling badly ... Ah well a job for the spring now I think.