Rugby. Brownsover. Crosstrees. 'nshtt..

Hello Peter ...  Hello Emily 
Lovely to serendipidously meet
for tea and tattle.

I have long craved crosstrees and Moonlight (pictured below) was snapped transiting Hillmorton.  Looking on its roof I saw a fine crosstree which the owner said his wife hates and wants shut of.  I bid a ton, got his number with a view to buy if 'mature reflection' does not interfere ... and hope to see hm Sat at Brinklow marina ..

Tues9thJul ... arrived in Brownsover last night to park on the two-day, having come down from an enforced stop at Hillmorton where I over-nighted Sunday to clean out the fuels tanks and lines and filters removing almost ten litres of water, crud and solids from the tanks, both of them, with no clear idea where the merde came from. 

Its gone now ... more or less ... and the port tank has about 16L of diesel.  On Tuesday I crossed the cut to moor on 14day rings for a day or two.

Brownsover is less than five minutes from a Tesco superstore and has local and long haul buses to hand.  I took X84 to Lutterworth to replenish my milk at Waitrose and visited Morrisons for a whole chicken (£3.75!) to roast Gas6/45min last night. This morning I was up at 6 monitoring the batteries, checking the solar input in quite cloudy conditions and noting that nothing useful came in til after 8am.  I had to run the engine from 7.30 to 8. I left the boat at 9.35 and picked up a No4 to the station having bought tickets on line before I left the boat.

Hello Jennie and Dave on Erin.
I intended to sample the zero and coffee
after the final whistle in Berlin and yes I will.
But I am now holding it til I get to see
the actual game in full and that will be
sometime towards the end of July.