Hopwas

Monday morning in much cooler weather we used the same method as yesterday. I drove on to Hopwas, near Tamworth where Pete arrived on the boat some 2 hours later!
The CRT volunteers were at the locks this morning - a very cheery man greeted me and we had a chat where I carefully explained to him that we would be stopping after going through the lock because there was a convenient road right alongside to bring the car up to the boat, so that we could unload a bag of coal we needed on board and possibly take off an empty gas bottle and did he think that it would be ok to moor there in order to do all that? He very kindly said yes, that's all fine, then I told him that was all rubbish because my small brain suddenly recalled that Pete and I had had a conversation just before where we had scrubbed that plan completely and were just continuing our journey.
"So," he said, "forget everything you've just told me then?" "Erm, yes" I said (t...t) .....he must have thought I was a complete berk...... and he'd be right!

At Hopwas, we moored on a pretty stretch where we have been before with our friends, George and Carol. We had lunch at the Tame Otter pub as we'd had with them.
Good this retirement lark.... Though it can turn your brain to mush.