Great progress.

Today we made excellent progress, getting much further than CanalPlan said we would. 

The Grand Union was much more rural as we left Warwick. 

But we were soon into lots more locks. 21 in total today so we are now past half way. 

We got lots of help by pairing up with NB Moonstone. Their skipper, Tom Lewis, even gave the children one of his CDs  called Tinker Tailor Soldier Singer. What wonderful people. 

They were stopping at Long Itchington, but we pressed on and were fortunate to be able to pair with Katy Jade for the rest of the day. Another great person and a pleasure to travel with. 

Unfortunately the jamming fender was up to similar tricks yesterday. We had moved it to the port side so I could keep a check on it but in the top Calcutt lock it jammed again and did this. 

As we were by the chandlery we immediately bought 4 new rubber fenders and ditched the rope ones that have been causing the trouble. 

We will see if we can stop bending the boat. 

As we went to the pub to celebrate Alison's birthday we passed two interesting signs. 

If you are going to order people about with a big sign you could at least spell it correctly. 

Whereas this one made us laugh. 

It was late when we got back but we had had a thoroughly good day.