It's lovely weather.. but oh the wind is cold at Blisworth

Today Bugbrooke to Blisworth, Grand Union Canal, 4miles 0 locks
Yesterday – Nether Heyford to Bugbrooke, GU Canal, 1.75 miles 0 locks

How two days can be so different is incredible!

Yesterday first thing I wandered off to take a couple of photos for a walk I had done the day before… I had to go back you see, because the batteries on the camera ran out, and I do like to record all my walks with photos.. then it was off for another trek, but this time I wanted to go back to the ‘Old Dairy Farm’…

This is a lovely village as you can see, but the Dairy Farm Centre is a wonderful place to visit, especially this time of year for a very good reason, the lambs are being born, and at weekends during March and April they have ‘lambing weekends’.. the cost is a couple of quid per person.. what a wonderful day out!

Anyway.. they have this little sweet shop there among other interesting shops.. and that sweet shop sells kola cubes!.. That is well worth the walk.. I got some last time I was there the winter before last.. I have never seen kola cubes since I was in my teen years.. I used to get them and put them into a tin and put them in my pocket when I used to go hunting on my pony on a cold Saturday morning.. I was a brave young lass you know… I remember on one hunt, I jumped a five bar gate ahead of the master of hounds.. mind I had a good pony!.. that was a long time ago though..

So I now have a bag of kola cubes… today was busy phewwwwww!  I had a bit of admin stuff to do on No Problem before the pins could be pulled.. did that and then moved along the canal to an enormous load of potential logs!  I had already gone down the towpath to seek permission to put some on our boat.. “Yes for sure, take it all if you want”.. great stuff… except if we had taken it all I am sure No Problem would have sunk!…

We chucked as much on as we could lift and went on down the canal for a while then off loaded it and got to work with the chain saw and spliiting axe before storing it on the top of NP, this will for sure be the last load for us this year… says me hopefully!!… Surely spring is around the corner!

Having done all that it was onward to Gayton Junction for water etc, then to Blisworth to collect post from the Post Office… now here must be one of the most friendliest Post Offices on the system… my stuff from Screwfix arrived in a box measuring about 2ft 6ins by 1ft 9ins and was 6ins deep… big eh?  Well in that box was the sanding disks Vic wanted.. I couldn’t believe it… the sanding discs would have fitted in a ordinary A4 envelope!!.. The Postmistress was a gem.. “Ah leave all that cardboard with me, I will dispose of it”…super stuff..

I can’t wait for tomorrow at Stoke Bruerne… something a bit special is going to happen… but I have to go through a tunnel, Blisworth in the morning first… and hey for once I don’t mind, it sure is going to be worth it!