Tell the weather it's Spring!

Today we moved on from Whiston Lock to Wellingborough, which leaves us with about 22 hours cruising to Peterborough. At our current rate of progress that's six days. That wouldn't be a problem in five days if the weather forecast wasn't so awful. Tuesday -rain, Wednesday - OK at first then windy and snow, Thursday and Friday not too bad, then Saturday - rain. I'm not a wimp but we are supposed to be enjoying this and getting soaked through is not my idea of fun. At least we have a good stock of beer, wine and food.

The countryside is showing signs of spring with catkins, leaf shoots and  even blossom here on the Wellingborough Embankment. Not surprisingly the rain is lashing down and we are being buffeted by the wind. The mooring here is a bit noisy with traffic and a factory that seems to work 24 hours on the opposite bank but having spent much of the winter moored near a railway that doesn't really bother me.

If we do stop here for the today I will try and finish the grouting on the fireplace and maybe get the undercoat on the wooden surround, time for another photo! Ray is toying with the idea of getting one of the roof boxes you can get for cars to put on Morgana. We have seen a few boats with them and I think that if we get a black one it should look OK, as Morgana will be black instead of black with red and blue patches when we get some good enough weather to paint the outside. I know they aren't traditional but she isn't really a traditional style boat anyway. It has to be more secure than a wooden top-box with a cover.

It is surprising how detatched from what is going on in the world you can become living this lifestyle. I was always in the habit of catching up with the news on the TV at ten o'clock. Since we have been travelling there have been as many days without TV as with. When I did catch the news I thought for a minute that Gordon Brown had already called the election because of the way they were talking. I shall have to make a point of checking the BBC website more often.


Today's journey 5.1 miles and 6 locks
So far we have travelled 70.4 miles, 96 locks, 3 swing bridges, 1 lift bridge and 1 tunnel.