Friday 27th June, 2014 at Rugeley.
The forecast rain arrived overnight and it rained on and off until mid afternoon. But we can't complain, we have been lucky with the weather so far.
When R used to breed pigs, he always created huge bacon rashers that included the "back" bacon as well as the "streaky". Nick, the butcher at Aston Marina had specially cut some of this "whole" bacon for us and this morning R cooked bacon and eggs the way he used to at Hill Farm with the egg cooked, surrounded by the bacon.
The bacon was absolutely delicious and so we had an excellent breakfast to set us up for the day.
After a short wak over the bridge to the Great Haywood Farm Shop for a "few bits", we set off in gentle rain. At Haywood Lock we were second in a queue of four boats waiting to go through but everyone helped each other, grumbling in a good-natured way about the rain.
Shugborough Hall could just be glimpsed in the distance across the fields, but was soon out of sight.
Despite the rain, it was a lovely journey with mature beech and oak trees lining the waterway. Our only other lock today was at Colwich, one of our favourites. The last time that we came this way there was a curious herd of cows wandering slowly across the bridge and carefully watching our progress.
We moored up for the evening on the outskirts of Rugeley and shortly after, the sun came out.
M has to go home tomorrow to babysit Eva and Tilly, so we did a reconnaissance walk to the nearby station to see how long it will take in the morning. Twenty minutes! R will stay on MM and move her down to Lichfield to pick up M again on Monday.
Today: 5 miles, 2 locks and 3.1 hours.
Trip: 13 miles, 5 locks and 7.2 hours.
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