Moored up last night in Great Northern Basin at Langley Mill at the end of the Erewash Canal.  Yesterday was an eventful day starting at 7:00am when Graham realised that someone had kindly pulled our mooring pins in the night and we had floated across to the other side of the canal.. He was a bit surprised when he opened the side doors and saw the towpath further away than anticipated.  As it was still early he decided not to start the engine but to push the boat across with the boat pole.  Managed to utilise a poker and a piece of wood to use as mooring pins as ours had gone, but Graham used the magnet and managed to retrieve one of them.

As there were 10 locks to do today we decided that I would steer the boat for the first five and then Graham would take over for the rest.  But disaster struck on the second lock as there was a low bridge and I managed to wipe out our exhaust chimney and ended up with half the bridge on the top of the boat.  This caused a bit of a tantrum on my part and I refused to steer any further. 

Eventually arrived at the basin and moored.  It is small looked as though there was no mooring space.  However spoke to the guy from the boatyard and he told us that we could moor more or less anywhere with no problems.  Decided to stay overnight and Sunday and leave on Monday morning.

Sunday morning we took the dogs for a walk which Graham had checked out and which should have been about three miles, however it kind of developed and ended up being more like six or seven miles and we were both so worn out we had to call into the pub for a pint and a carvery lunch.  Excellent! Then back to the boat for a kip.  

Have really loved the Erewash Canal and it seems a shame that it is not used much.  Everyone that we have spoke to has been friendly and I even had a bunch of kids helping with one of the locks.  Spoke to one of the blokes that was involved in restoring the canal and he was very informative and was telling us about plans to try and restore parts of the Cromford Canal which joined up with the Erewash at Langley Mill.

On the move again tomorrow and will probably take two days back to Trent Lock and then onwards to Nottingham.