Reading Survived!!

Thursday 31st May, 2012
Is it really the end of May already?
We woke at 7:00am to find that it was raining, only a shower but nice to see after six days of continuous sun and heat. Hope it's raining on our newly seeded grass back in Reigate!
This has been a lovely, quiet rural mooring after six nights in towns.
We were late setting off, as R had a Capture call and it was midday by the time we moored up in Reading. There is a huge Tesco with moorings right outside - very convenient. We gathered up our large collection of recyclables, hoping to find bins at Tesco. Unfortunately the waterways are very poorly equipped with recycling facilities. Even at this large Tesco they only took bottles and magazines, sadly we had to throw all the plastics in the bin. We bought yet more "Brasso" at Tesco, M is complaining of "Brasso Hands" as opposed to dishpan hands!

M's diet seems to have gone a bit far!

On the mooring next to us was a nice chap on nb "Thumper", who recognised us from Pyrford and, as we left together, we shared the next lock at Caversham. The lock keeper saw that M was preparing lunch and when M offered to do him a bacon sandwich he politely declined, "I'm a vegetarian" he said wistfully.
We stopped just upstream of Reading Bridge for lunch and another Capture call for R before going on upstream. We eventually moored up at Pangbourne and for the first time had problems finding a mooring, which delayed the third Capture call for R today. The fact that the wind had got up and it was raining didn't help.
Now M is finishing off her choir AGM minutes and we are getting ready for supper.
Today: 9 miles, 2 locks and 3.6 hours
Trip:  53 miles, 23 locks and 24.3 hours (167.6 total).