Family weekend at Kintbury, then home to Hungerford..

Today – Kintbury to Hungerford, Kennet & Avon Canal, 3 miles 4 locks
Weekend – Moored Kintbury
Friday – Shepherd’s Bridge to Kintbury, 1 mile 1 lock

Moved up to Kintbury on Friday evening, and by the time we had put on water and done the loo cassettes it was dark.  It is amazing how quickly the darkness appears now, and I have to be careful if I am out walking that I don’t stay out too late and I need to make sure that I take some type of ‘time’ with me.. it doesn’t just creep up on you, the darkness, it just happens!

Saturday was a quiet day for us, I went walking for some of the day.. a lovely route I had chosen, but one little lane that I wanted to use had threatening signs on to all those who even thought about walking along it.. Private – No Entry – Keep Off – No Right Of Way etc etc… .  Which meant I had to take the non scenic route back to No Problem along a pretty busy road… but a photo opportunity!..

Well not the usual type of traffic along the road is it!? … Lovely innit, so my walk wasn’t so bad after all….

But Sunday was the day I was waiting for, and just after 10 o’clock, 4 faces at the window.. Daughter Jennie, son-in-law Phil and granddaughters Jessica and Molly, and here they are…

Goodness the girls have grown, and so well behaved too, a credit to Jen and Phil they are, and I think my snap of them a little later in the day is about right, no caption needs to be added, the caption is in the pic! …

We went geocaching and Jessica found the treasure much to her delight and to the amazement of Jennie and Phil.. maybe they might take up the ‘sport’ themselves now..

But all too soon they were away again, and an hour later a phone call to say they were safely home.. so an hour from our family we are at the moment, lets hope for a few more visits!!

Onward then today.. we had planned on doing a couple of locks and mooring, but unlike the fens of East Anglia and the barren land void of trees over there, much the opposite here where all the trees are on the left of us as we make our way along the canal.. and to the left is also the satellite that picks up sky telly!!.. In any case, wherever there was a gap in the trees with line of sight to sky tele we could not get into the side as it was too shallow.. on and on we went.. nowhere, just nowhere!!

So we settled tonight just outside Hungerford in nice deep water tied to the towpath side in full view of the sky satellite.. ‘back home’ we are.  We have always considered Hungerford as ‘Our Home’.. It was here that we first brought No Problem after purchasing her in Stoke over 4 years ago.. I was only semi retired then, and was working 3 days a week.. we had No Problem moored here at Hungerford for a good bit of that time.. has always been good to us has Hungerford.