You get days when nothing goes wrong and everything goes right. Today was that day. We didn't leave Penkridge until 10.30am, much later then anticipated as we were waiting to say farewell to Carole and Alan. The curtains remained closed on their boat until well after 10am. Now I ask you, who sleeps in until that time in the morning!!! Finally there was signs of life and making the comment to them about 'its okay for some to sleep in late', they told us that a party in the house opposite had continued well into the night making it impossible to sleep. So we let them off and with our goodbyes said, finally got underway. I suppose the only slight problem was low water between Penkridge and Longton locks.
Within 2 1/2 hours we arrived at Deptmore lock and found Bruce and Shelia Nb
Sanity Again already moored. So we did no more then pull up in front of them and walked over to say, hi. Nearly 3 hours later after a lot of laughter, some serious talk and tea and coffee we said our goodbyes. I bet they thought we would never go!!. I then went fishing but only caught 2 tiddlers so, as Ian suggested 'before dinner drinks', I gave up on catching anything decent, walked over to Sanity and asked Bruce and Shelia if they would like to join us. Sally, Eleanor's woofit, was with them but even though they had some reservations of leaving her alone on the boat for the first time, came and joined us for an hour. Its amazing how, although you may only have met a few times, the conversation never stopped. Its almost like meeting long lost friends. Now all we have to do is meet up with Doug and James on Nb Chance who we know are heading our way.
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