It's definitely starting to get autumnal now, with a misty start to the day most mornings.  However it is still warm and we have had a few sunny days.  No fire lit for several days now.  We are now back on the Leicester section of the GU canal, and having come up Watford flight this morning are taking a slow cruise along the summit.  We have to be back in Market Harborough for 3rd October as Graham has a train ticket booked, so rang up the wharf and are booked in for three nights from 2nd.

We had a lazy weekend moored up from Friday evening to Monday morning.  In the middle of nowhere and no-one moored anywhere near us until Sunday evening.  We found a good walk for the dogs over the fields and they had a good run every day.  They are still worn out.

The weekend mooring

Visitors trying to mug us for food! They're like a bunch of hoodies!!

Yesterday was a long day coming from Hillmorton, through Braunstone and round Norton Junction onto the Leicester section.  The trip up Braunstone locks was lengthy due to the flight being busy, mostly with boats ahead of us.  We did manage to share locks for most of the flight though.  Mainly uneventful apart from meeting a very bossy woman, who was coming down the flight, who tried to organise me at one of the locks.  I walked away and left her to it.  Can't stand being bossed around!!

The Stop House at Braunstone

Marina entrance at Braunstone

Today was a much more relaxed day coming up Watford locks, a flight of seven in total including a staircase of four.  Usually there is a wait to use these locks as the lock keeper operates a queueing system.  But there was no-one else around when we arrived so were able to go straight up.  More boats soon arrived though and we were followed by three more boats and there were two waiting to come down when we got to the top.

Looking back to the bottom lock

Going into the bottom of the staircase at Watford

Lock keepers hut at the top of the flight