Attleborough

We are at Attleborough - no not the more familiar town in Norfolk, where we have friends, but the village in Warwickshire near Nuneaton - at least that is what the weather forecast on my phone says. We have been looking at our phone weather forecasts a lot recently. Tonight it's raining but unlike yesterday we had a period of dry weather from dawn until 2 o'clock.

Tonight's weather forecast 

(The warning is Yellow for snow)

We left our muddy mooring at Hillmorton about 9 o'clock. An hour before we left, Roger Alsop passed us with cheery comment as he went south on NB Comet. Later we got a text to say he had made it all the way to Cosgrove - quite a journey. 

A view of the towpath from our saloon window

We dropped down the three double locks at Hillmorton in parallel with another boat. It was interesting to see how much quicker the locks with ground paddles emptied. Through Rugby we met a few boats going south and as always we met a few at bridge holes where boats had moored. Just north of Newbold we met a Rose Narrowboat's day boat going south. Unfortunately they appeared oblivious of the fact that they should slow down where the canal narrows and we had to push off their bows before we had a collision. Maybe it will be a "learning experience". 

Approaching Hawkesbury Junction (Sutton Stop)

(with threatening clouds)

By Sutton Stop it was pouring with rain. Not for the first time we went through the lock in heavy rain. We met two boats going south. 

Sutton Stop Lock seen from the Coventry Canal

Hawkesbury Junction

The rain abated for a while but by the time we turned off onto the Ashby Canal it was raining again and temperatures were dropping. 

We moored up by the visitor moorings near Bridge 5. Tomorrow we are committed to moving on to meet family. It looks like we will boating in the rain all day.