Mud, mud, glorious mud at Honey Street!

Ladies Bridge to Honey Street, Kennet & Avon Canal, 2 miles 0 locks

Before pulling the pins this morning I decided to have a wander over this glorious countryside around here. Well the sun was shining, and although there was a bit of a wind, it wasn't cold.

But Oh dear mud, just everywhere goodness me we sure must have had some rain. But I was pleased to have taken the gps with me, there were no footpath signposts anywhere, it seemed that walkers were probably not welcome!

Stiles were broken down, and in one place it was impossible to clamber over an electric fence to cross a field on a perfectly legal and allowed footpath.. No worry though, finding alternative routes is fairly easy even if you have to go through the farmers yard. If a footpath is blocked then the law says that I can find an alternative to get round the blockage, so through the farmyard it was!

When I got back Vic had taken some timber from the roof, we need some cut up that's for sure.. and he had the chainsaw at the ready. I had also made some soup for lunch earlier and left it on the wood burner to do, so before doing the wood I liquidised that so it would be ready for lunch.

With the wood stacked inside and the soup duly eaten and licked from the bowls we readied to set off for Honey Street.. then the rain came down!.. Typical!

I promised a pic of where we are at the moment, I should have done that this morning, now the day was dank.. but you don't have many dank pics to look at, so here is what it is like on the waterways on a wet winter day..

And here is Ladies Bridge, not a good day for this one, but it is very ornate..

But of course we have our back canopy up at the moment, so rain doesn't really effect us as we are going along. We do turn the windscreen up and over out of the way so I can see 100%.. it is only when the rain is driving from straight ahead that we get wet. Onward then to George Gibson at Honey Street and a top up with diesel.

The last time No Problem tied up to his lovely wharf was in December 2003 so my log book said.. then I paid him 35p a litre, today I paid 60p a litre, and for sure I will probably be paying higher before I leave the K&A next year. And so to one of my most favourite spots on this canal, Honey Street..

A lovely name and a lovely place. We are moored right outside The Barge tonight, and yet again the towpaths are just a quagmire of mud around here, but we are moored on the nice 24hr visitor moorings at Honey Street.. which means that there will be no mud between me and a couple of pints when we walk out later..