Through Nuneaton and troubles ahead!

Wood Bridge 27 to Griff Lane Bridge 17, Coventry Canal, 3.5 miles 0 locks

Reluctantly leaving the lovely mooring by Bridge 27, we used the services at the marina opposite before setting off to Nuneaton with the roof absolutely covered in long pieces of wood ready for chopping with the chainsaw later.

I simply hate Nuneaton, sorry if you are reading this and live there, but the town is full of litter, the canal is full of rubbish .. nobody, it seems, cares about the town they live in.

Anyway it started to rain not long after leaving the marina.. that caused me real problems, not only could I not see over the top of all the wood on the roof, but the rain spots were covering the canopy windscreen.  It was my decision to not put the canopy down this morning.. I was OK with the wood restricting my view, but when the rain came down it was too much, and I ended up in the offside vegetation!!

Asking Vic to get the pole out to push us away, he reluctantly did so, only to get the pole stuck in the mud… I thought he was going be a gonna for sure.. but he hung on well in the squally weather..

Topped up the freezer compartment with some really good looking meat from the butcher at Bridge 23 before setting off again to pick the post up at Bridge 21.. couldn’t wait to get away from there.  A chip shop close by has two huge litter bins outside, and all along the street are fish and chip paper, chips, half eaten other bits and pieces etc.. To walk along this street I had to watch the ground, not look ahead of me.. I have never seen so much dirt and rubbish in any town I have been in.

No sooner left after collecting the post when the rain came down again along with high winds.. grrrrrrrr so difficult.  I should have stopped earlier to get that wood on the roof chopped so it could be stored away, but no I carried on planning on doing that job when we had moored up for the day.

But not only did I have problems, so did British Waterways once again at the same spot as Chas and Ann reported about on their blog when a car had been found in the canal Here another car at the very same place….

But hey, look at the pic Ann took last month….

It looks to me like the very same car!!!

But the car in Ann’s picture was actually hauled out and left on the towpath.. silly that, cos they came back the next evening and set fire to it, so it wasn’t the same car!!

Settled tonight, and with the wood all chopped up now, and the roof cleared, hopefully tomorrow I will have a happier day as skipper on the tiller as we make our way up the Ashby Canal after picking up our groceries from Mr Tesco in the morning.