Apsley Locks with new kitchen aboard!

The Fishery to Apsley Locks, Grand Union Canal, 2 miles 4 locks

It wasn’t far to B & Q, and I was glad because it was a horrid start to the day with heavy drizzle.  I moored on the opposite side to the wharf, as expected, due to the ‘continuous moorer cruisers’!

Didn’t need to go to the other side anyway.  B & Q Hemel Hempstead was the worst B & Q I have ever been in …. “No sorry we don’t cut kitchen tops” “No sorry we don’t have any of those cabinates, we can order them.. delivery errrrr 5 weeks” “No sorry we don’t have 2” x 1” planed batton”… sheeeeeesh!

OK, so plan B.  Homebase.

Homebase is a little further along just between the two locks that we needed to reach by Sunday.  A smashing mooring just a couple of minutes walk away.  Luckily there was a dumped trolly just by the mooring and we loaded the unused flooring bought from their shop in Leighton Buzzard and set off hoping to have better luck than an hour previously.

Bit different here!

“Yes of course we will cut your kitchen top into the sizes you want” “2”x1” batton, yes of course we have” “Yes no problem in a refund for the flooring” etc etc etc.

Biggest effort of the day was trying to steer the trolly back to NP with all the bits and pieces for the new fit out of the kitchen.  Why oh why in this day and age do we have to struggle and struggle with shopping trollies with wobbly wheels!

Anyway I am happy tonight, all the bits and pieces are here, all I have to hope for now is that I measured it up right…. my measurements you see, Vic does the building!