MOVING ONWARDS

Saturday 7th Sept dawned muggy and did not forecast better so I decided to dress for the day that was in it and get away from Galbraith's yard and the wharf where yesterday I managed a lot of painting using the remnants of a can of Trafalgar gloss I have had since I was in Stanstead Abbotts.  Down lock 3 backtrack til I could turn just beyond Bridge 68, come back to Wavy, hitch and move to the landing below Lock 3. I had no firm plan so breakfast was had and I went up on the first available empty lock about 10oc. I had a sort of a plan to hitch Wavy at a mooring used previously but in the event it seemed churlish not to take an empty lock with open gates and before I knew it Pentargon was emerged above the top lock. Hillmorton always fools me.  The brain knows there are six locks but does not register that I only have to do three of them. So nothing for it but keep going and shortly before 11.30 I find myself nailing her to the side by Bridge 72 by the Waterside Inn where last year I found Wavy.  Probably all for the best as the weather forecast overnight is for buckets of rain across all of the southern half of Britain.