Braunston and Daventry

3rd Nov - Moored Braunston, Oxford Canal

Well I am having trouble with trying to restore Chas's computer back to the way it was, and spent all of this morning on his boat before going up to the Post Office in Braunston to pick up the mail from home.

After spending an hour or so sorting through it and replying to various bits and pieces, left for the bus to go off to Daventry to pick up Vic's prescription.  Just got to the bus stop when I realised I had left my bum bag indoors.  Fanatically tried to phone Vic to meet me half way with it, but he didn't hear the phone, so ran back to the boat picked it up and ran back to the bus stop again, phew, that nearly did me in, but I didn't miss the bus!

Daventry is a very different town to most, with its small malls full of small shops, and apart from Boots and Argos there were no big high street named shops there.  I wanted a large shop like Smiths for a particular magazine I needed, but I didn't see any of that type of shop.  Maybe I missed it, but for sure one is needed!

Just missed the bus back, and had to wait an hour.  Decided to take the bus right into Braunston village and collect some fish and chips on the way home.  Yum delicious too they were.  The nights are really drawing in now, and the shops full of Christmas stuff.  It really does feel like winter time, the memories of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, Ripon Canal, York and the superb Selby Canal, short as it is, seems just ages ago now, I have to remind myself that it was only three months ago that we came down the fabulous River Trent.

It was nice to see on TV tonight in the Natural History programme, our Alan Titchmarsh at the helm of a narrowboat, some nice footage of working boats from the past, and some lovely footage of a kingfisher fishing.

Tomorrow we are suppose to be moving off down to Calcutt, but I want to fix that computer of Chas' as soon as possible, so maybe we will stay here a while if the warden allows.  The weather is going to be good .... so some fishing maybe too.