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Ah! Pork Pies now we are talking. We always used to get one from my first cousin once removed at Christmas. They lived in Lincoln, it was from Melton Mowbray.

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Well. you need to go to the 'World Famous' Pie Shop in Skipton. :D

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Not only the pork pies but the steak pies aswell. There is also another shop around the corner and the competition on quality is quite competitive.

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I'm working my way through Jo's 471 pictures she took on our trip to Atherstone to see if I should share some. Watch this space.

In the meantime here is a video of Braunston Junction - not to bad this time.

https://youtu.be/aBXGNeCBrUk

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It makes you want to be there, oh! how I miss my canal holidays.

Thanks Graham I really enjoyed the video. :D

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nice video graham, thank you

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So here we are settled in the boat, glass of Mackinson Stout in my hand when there is a huge bang followed by a prolonged scrapping sound.

A passing boat had just crashed into us, they chugged off down the canal zigzaging from side to side. Drunk? Incompetent? Who knows.

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Graham and Jo wrote:
So here we are settled in the boat, glass of Mackinson Stout in my hand when there is a huge bang followed by a prolonged scrapping sound.

A passing boat had just crashed into us, they chugged off down the canal zigzaging from side to side. Drunk? Incompetent? Who knows.

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Hopefully no damage to Dotterel Graham.

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The boat is fine, maybe a scratch or two but we are heading towards Coventry tomorrow to get the boat painted again. Cheers Graham
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Nice morning but rain promised later.

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It threw it down for a while, we are now happily settled in the Old Royal Oak at Hillmorton. The rain should stop later so we will head down the locks to the visitor moorings or perhaps onto Clifton.

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We have moored at Clifton, visit in Rugby tomorrow then on through the open sewer section north of Stretton and moor somewhere near Hawkesbury.

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I don't know the area but judging by some of the photographs that I have seen from around there, it is just what you would expect on a canal, scenic and peaceful.

However. this sounds ominous.
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...... then on through the open sewer section north of Stretton and moor somewhere near Hawkesbury. Cheers Graham

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It's normally nice even through Rugby. This is the view from the hatch just now,

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The bit north of Stretton has been black and smelling of sewage since August. It has been reported but there is no news about it. It lasts for a mile or so and is slowly moving north.

I'm so looking forward to it.

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Gorgeous day for cruising, this is in Rugby

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We are moored on the section that was previously gross!

It has been a nice cruise this afternoon.

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There is an aqueduct about 100 yrs astern. It leads to a very nice farm and an abandoned piece of the canal. We went for a look.

The towpath side is clearly original.

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But the other side near the railway is built of engineering brick.

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Interesting.

We are a short cruise away from the painter's wet dock, so it's home tomorrow.

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