At Fradley and the last day or so on the Trent and Mersey..

Weekend and today, Great Haywood to Wood End Lock Nr Fradley, 11 miles 2 locks

We moved to collect a Tesco order on Friday morning only to be phoned by them to say it had been cancelled due to a lack of drivers.. “We will deliver it tomorrow for you”.. Then it got complicated because we could not stay where we were.. “Hold the order I’ll phone customer services when I find another place to deliver tomorrow”..  So pulled the pins and on the move again to a suitable place..

Saturday came and so did another phone call “Sorry we can’t deliver today…” “Lack of drivers?” says I.. “How did you know that?” “Ah well I just had a feeling!”  “We can deliver it Monday”

Although Tesco offered to deliver it today I cancelled it at that point and we pulled the pins once again to cruise south.  I certainly didn’t want to keep the pins in where we had moored over the weekend..  Onward then…

And here a very quiet Colwich Lock.  Usually during the summer months there can be 8 or 9 narrowboats queued in both directions to use this lock.

It was nice to move away from the railway line, although there were no trains along it over the weekends probably due to the ongoing works at Rugby I guess.

We stopped at Rugeley only to visit Morrisons for some needed bread and milk after being let down by Mr Tesco, and also to visit Aldi at the other end of the street to collect some fruit.

I find the fruit at either Aldi or Lidle.. is it Lidle?  I think there is a ‘Y’ in it somewhere.. is of a very high quality and low price.  Anyway I was not disappointed and picked some lovely fresh fruit including pineapples at just 58p each.. I refuse to pay £1.50–80 for a pineapple!!!

Rugeley sure does need some brightening up around the canal area, as does the next village/town around Armitage.. both seem very drab and uninviting for an overnight mooring, but we found a very quiet and attractive mooring close to Tuppenhurst just to the south of Handsacre, so the pins were put in and I did a fresh order for Mr Tesco to deliver this morning.

I am now the proud owner of an ipod!.. Yeah!!!!!…. Modern me eh?

On it I have just put every number one UK single since the charts first started in 1958, all in ‘yearly’ folders… would you believe just over 1200 tracks.. that should give me something to listen to for a while!

Ummmmm wonder how long it will take me to listen to that lot!! Teehee!