The lady forecaster was full of doom and gloom about heavy rain and thunderstorms when we watched last night so we decided on an early start to try and get to Oxford before the worst.
In the event out 7.30 start gave us an extremely pleasant and dry run almost all the way to Oxford, we even had some brief showing of a watery sun. We just caught a light rain shower towards the end and we would not even have done that if we hadn't been held up by a small incident.
After Dukes Cut we encountered our first signs of the dredging that we had been told to expect between Enslow and Oxford. The work is not a problem as we could easily get by.
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| But then we caught up with a dredger going into the lock, and another coming up |
This was not a great delay and the weather was still good
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| However a bit further on we found a hire boat with problems, think he had hit something and done some damage. The dredger driver decided to stop and help. No one was going anywhere! |
When the dredger driver gave up he then proceeded to meet his mate ahead and swap containers.....
Eventually everything was cleared and we were on our way again.
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| Nothing like two old men and a dog passing the time of day! |
The promised heavy rain still has not arrived so we await with bated breath. Moored at Aristotle Bridge from where I shall be collected by Emma and Dave for this weeks granny duties.
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