Right turn at Norton leads us to new waters and upset fishermen!

10th Nov - Braunston to Norton Junction, Grand Union Canal, 4 miles 6 locks

Working on up through Braunston Locks this morning, I noticed that The Admiral Nelson pub has a new pub sign and has been painted boringly, the old sign I remember was so much better.  The pub looks too clinical for me now, it has definitely lost it's character and charm in my eyes.

Braunston Tunnel isn't that bad really is it?  I always say that after I have been through.  This time just as we were about to enter the tunnel out came a motor and butty, the butty had no boater, ah a bit of luck! So just passing the one in the tunnel (why do we all always seem to pass each other in the wiggly bit!  ) we were soon out the other end and what a glorious late autumn sight greeted us.

Lucy had got herself into trouble with a couple of fishermen just before this photo was taken.  She is locked inside No Problem while we are in tunnels, and she is always very anxious to get out on deck at the first opportunity.  Normally she then dives off the back of the boat and on to the towpath, but at the northern end of the tunnel there is now a hard edge as you can see, so she was told to lie down on the deck.  Vic asked if I would like a cuppa to which I replied "Yeah go on then", well Lucy thought I was talking to her and did a beautiful dive towards the towpath right between two fishermen..... dear me they were soooooooo angry!

Fair enough, I think I would have been too, but Lucy was trying desperately to climb the side, I knew she wouldn't be able to though, and started to pull in to go rescue her.  One fisherman was shouting at me for letting her off the boat, but his heart couldn't let Lucy cling on struggling to get out, so he gave her a pull on the collar and she was out.  I kept apologising, but nothing was going to calm our fisherman friend down now, he was a bit wet you see!

We have moored on the visitor moorings between Norton Junction and the top of the Buckby Locks, and luckily there is a track/road right along side here doubling up as the towpath, that is just great for tomorrow, the Tesco man will be able drive right up to the boat.

Browsing earlier, I went to have a look at Andrew's 'Granny Buttons' site, and saw that he noticed the mention on the blog to the Tesco 'home delivery'.  Andrew you did make me smile when mentioning that girlies drink half pints and not pints, well for sure I am not a lesbian but I do enjoy a pint, perhaps I should order two halves, will that be more in keeping with 'proper' girlies?  Here is a link to that article.

On having more of a look around, I noticed a couple of posts there about improving the blog and adding features, so this evening I have been having a go, and have put trackback on this site.  I will try to use that later when I have figured out just how it works!  I also have noticed that those of you who view the blog through the webfeed don't get the links on the left of the Blogger, there is one about Tesco Deliveries and another you might not have seen about The Jam 'Ole Run.

Tonight I am playing a game of hearts at Gamezone, in fact I should have been there half an hour ago.......