Densie moored on the Ashby - pity about the power linesAnother murky morning - cold and foggy. Other things were looking up - the fire survived the night successfully, just requiring a bit of a poke and opening up the air vent to get the stove hot. Also our battery power was OK although the inverter had been left running overnight. So, 2 out of 3 isnt too bad.
As the weather didnt look inviting we stayed in the boat reading and doing fiendish level Sukoku problems. The former Denise, and the latter me. By quarter to eleven we were getting bored so we decided to set off down the canal. The weather was still foggy, a bit damp, and cold - not too pleasant for boating.
Within half an hour we were at Marston Junction where the Ashby Canal joins the Coventry. We turned left up the Ashby. Moorings can be difficult to find because of shallow banks but we were lucky after 3 miles and an hour and a half or so to find a stretch of bank exactly the same length as our boat where the edge was firm and the water deep.
Where are we? Difficult to explain exactly because the Ashby canal can be remote from anywhere and seems to follow a route deliberately avoiding all habitation. The nearest landmark is the A5 near Hinckley, about a mile away but quite audible.
After a lunch of mushroom and red onion omelette (we were hungry after a couple of hours standing in the cold at the back of the boat) we went out for a 3 mile walk. First stop was the site of the medieval village of Stretton Baskerville where there was little to see besides various lumps and bumps in a grassy field. We then took a circular path to the nearest village, Burton Hastings, described in the guide book as a quiet village. A good description, nothing else to say really, no shops, no pubs and the partly 13C church was locked.
Dinner this evening is a bit more basic than usual - sausages, potatoes & veg. We arent too hungry, perhaps we shouldnt have had the omelette.
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