A Hungry Horse

Wednesday 27th June, 2012
Last night we moored at Kintbury only a few yards from the railway station. This morning M left by train to go back to Reigate for Choir practice tonight. She said it took only six minutes to get back to Newbury by train as opposed to the nearly four hours it took us to do the same trip yesterday.
R filled MM with water and as he was finishing the horse-drawn trip boat came through the lock with a full load of passengers. They hitched the horse up to pull the barge out of the lock and R climbed on MM's roof to keep the tow-rope from breaking off the wireless aerials.

It seems that the horse still wanted its breakfast as at this point it spotted a nice patch of nettles, turned sharp right and wandered towards the car park while the barge drifted past. The tow had to be hastily unhitched and the horse retrieved and returned to the towpath. The tow rope was then re-connected and they finally set off much to the delight of the passengers.

R spent the rest of the day doing Capture work and only ran the engine to charge the batteries.
Today: 0 miles, 0 locks and 3.0 hours.
Trip: 125 miles, 77 locks and 84.6 hours (229.2 total).