And on the seventh day we rested.

Our mooring in Newbold turned out not to be as nice as we had hoped. It turns out the canal banks are inclined here so the bottom of the boat hits the bank before the fenders do, and it makes a large metallic clang. 

It also does the same clang and a horrible grating noise every time anybody on board moves. 

After an evening on tiptoes and not daring to move in bed all night, the first boat past in the morning woke us all up with what can best be described as a peel of clangs an amateur campanologist may make on an initial foray. 

The second boat did the same as well as horrendous grating noises so at this I leapt into action and announced we were moving straight away. 

Up we all got, me more willing than others and before long we were travelling through Newbold tunnel. 

We did find a lovely mooring just past the next bridge, but this meant that we had to walk back through the tunnel to get anywhere. It does have a nice towpath but the lights don't seem to work anymore. 

We found that our mooring spot was lovely but the volume of traffic going past meant our mooring pins were being slowly eased out of position by the movemen of Magpie II. Luckily we were moored straight across from Armada boats at Falls Bridge Wharf who offered helpful advice and sold me some chains to make the mooring more secure. 

Captain Tolley's Creeping Crack Cure, which had been purchased from Calcutt Boats along with the new fenders was duly applied to the leaky windows and finally our day of rest could begin with a nice walk. 

We followed a path I used to walk our dog on and some came across another abandoned loop of the canal. 

We then walked into Rugby meeting several old friends and one who is bound for Canada who it was lovely to see before he leaves. Finally a quick drink at our favourite resting place from many dog walks. 

Before back to Magpie II who was still where we had left her thanks to our new chains. We did get the lovely sight of a full moon over the canal with tha long abandoned Newbold loop on the right. We are not sure why, if they bricked up the old tunnel, they would leave the other end in water and build an iron bridge over it. Research to be done I think. The moon would not photograph well but I tried.