The weather this morning looked beautiful with blues skies and little wind. There had been a frost overnight but we had prudently set our central heating to come on at 6:30 so the boat was fairly warm when we got up.
A bit more about wildlife, this time on the boat. No, I dont mean rats or the ships cat - I am talking about spiders. After getting up we were very pleased to see a web had been made over the sink during the night and there were 4 little spiders each the size of a pin head running around it. We were able to rescue them before doing the washing up.
For some reason spiders are very common on narrowboats, they are the only creatures we normally see actually on the boat. We dont discourage them as hopefully they will remove any flies - this must be working as we rarely see any.
We left the mooring at 9:00 and travelled south through the 4 Meaford locks and the first two of the Stone locks. The Stone Boatbuilding chandlery was open and they were able to supply a new chimney, a 12 foot boat pole to replace the current one which looks like it would snap next time we had to push the boat off a shoal, and a fresh cylinder of propane for the cooker.
We have moored just past the chandlery as we intend to go into Stone tonight for a Turkish meal - we have been told the restaurant is very good.
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