Wednesday 25th June

Off early down the locks and moored up outside the water tap / chandlers. The chandlers were closed, it was early 9am and the sign said that they opened at 10am. I went off toward the high street to find some supplies. I talked to an elderly many asking him if he knew where I could get some duck tape. He told me that the high street didn’t have many useful shops any more, only restaurants, cafes and bars. He then remembered a car garage shop which may have what I needed. I headed right and found the place. I bought 3 wood chisels, 2 cable ties and a roll of duck tape.
Back to the boat where I used the 2 cable ties at packing and taped the table leg to the tiller.
All OK and off down the 4 narrow locks onto the river Severn.
A pleasant enough river to cruse. Loads of fishermen along the banks. We navigated he fist lock OK despite the canal talk of log waits or even lock closures due to the BW work.
A few more locks and into the city of Worcester. It looked nice from the river banks. We turned left off the river in the first of 2 very large locks, around 80ft long and you could nearly fit 3 narrowboats side by side.
We were in there with a 60ft Brook line boat with only 2 crew. The chap navigating was banging the boat about…
Off on to the narrow canal passed loads of new build yuppie flats with canal views, which were mainly empty. I guess that people didn’t want a small yuppie flat, or as the credit crunch is bighting they are over priced…
We decided to go out of the slum canal side Worcester and towards the country. We moored at Tibberton Bridge.