Winter mooring

We made it! We are now moored at our winter mooring where we can stay put until April.


The ice had broken up by Sunday and we set off though the first lock to wind the boat and face the direction towards our winter mooring. Leigh did an amazing job of doing a 180degree about turn through icebergs. It felt like an age since moving but it all came flooding back to me how to get through the locks.


So we took our time and passed through four locks to the top of Atherstone Locks.


At this point I set off in the car as Leigh took her off along the canal towards Hartshill.


Now we are here we are free from the noisy a5 traffic, trains throughout the night and local business TNT clattering and thundering their lorries. We look out across fields to the horizon and have evenings where the sky so full of stars it takes my breath away. The towpath is a boggy mud track - thank goodness I have still got wellies borrowed from MB! Overall it's a delight.

We will have visitors by the end of next week, two young birds flying the nest. And we hope to give them a helping hand with their moves. So from the time being from The Kite Experiment, we are hibernating from the wind which is swaying us to sleep at night. But tomorrow we have to collect water again so will brace ourselves for that one!