A familiar sight, the lift bridge at Thrupp. I am driving at the moment and the captain is operating the controls for the bridge. She likes turning keys, stopping traffic and waving me through.
I'm driving mainly because we need to stop the boat just on the left around this corner to get rid of rubbish and empty the loo. It's a tricky manoeuvre which I have been known to get wrong.
I've lost the tiller now. We're back on the river Cherwell and I'm doing all the locks today.
On the river bit we can go a bit faster than on the canal. Rivers are usually deeper and the boat moves along much easier.
At the lock off the river we were confronted by a C&RT barge which took up quite a bit of space. Luckily there were 3 blokes on board who made sure that they didn't scrape our paintwork.
Here's the captain coming into Pigeon Lock. The boat we secured the other day is still there and my makeshift rope work is holding up well.
We've stopped for the night just below Dashwood Lock, almost at the same spot on the way up.
A couple of downpours today but apart from them, not too bad a day.
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