Apologies, I have been most remiss in not posting. I will try to catch up, with photos, later. Tonight finds us in Tewkesbury. We left Stratford yesterday morning and made good time to Evesham, where we spent last night. A strange town, not what I expected, but perhaps I should have done, given its main industry. Yesterday went well, though the weather was changeable. We were warned that we would have to descend Evesham lock backwards, which we did, aided by a rather splendid female lockkeeper in a polka dot dress. We knew too that we would have also to come down Chadbury lock backwards, which was our first lock this morning. What we didn't know was that we would have to repeat the feat at both Nafford and Strensham. I have got very good at turning round in weir streams. In Evesham we could only get down at all backwards; in the other three it was a question of getting the gate open once down.
Today we have also had a broken gear linkage, fortunately when approaching a lock rather than turning round in a weir stream, and, annoyingly, unshipped the rudder in the process of mooring. As it has been rather a trying day, I am feeding Jim up in Wetherspoons before he attempts to right that in the morning.
The Avon has lots of trees.
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6 days ago
Not sure what Evesham's main industry is these days. In my days it was a market town, fruit and veg, not livestock. Of course Evesham is most famous for educating me:-)
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ReplyDeleteFamous also for the BBC Engineering Training Department (as it was called when I was there learning about television at the start of my career) at nearby Wood Norton.
ReplyDeleteMy cousin Jimmy Fraser was a lecturer (I think) at Wood Norton
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