We woke to sunshine, and first went for a walk round the Ouse Valley Park. We did the route I did yesterday afternoon, but in reverse. The ponies were keeping a distance today, but we heard a cuckoo, which was either moving about or there was more than one. We had realised we’d forgotten a few things on our shopping trip yesterday, so at 10am set off towards Wolverton.
At Galleon Wharf, a new building is going up, with curved wooden roof beams. We need to look up the planning, but Adrian’s guess is that it might be an upside down down, with bedrooms on the ground floor and living above.
Immediately before the bridge, a duck landed on the roof and came for a short ride.
A bit further on, a boat is displaying a sign saying ‘bird’s nest’, and sure enough, there’s a moorhen nesting in one of its tyre fenders.
At Wolverton I dropped Adrian off to go to Tesco, and carried on to turn around at New Bradwell. It’s not a favourite winding hole as there are so many dangly trees; I was a bit concerned about the chimney, which I should have taken off beforehand. Adrian jumped back on at Wolverton, and we continued to Cosgrove Lock. A boat was coming down and closed the gates behind them, but the steerer couldn’t get his boat into the landing so sent his crew back to open the gates so we could go in. They’d also left the paddles up, which wasn’t ideal. We moored in a nice sunny spot in the village, and had lunch. Then we walked back to the marina and I moved my car to the village — I have a night shift to do tonight, so will be driving to Milton Keynes central. We came back to the boat via the shop at the caravan park, so we could have an ice cream.
6 miles, 1 lock. (7 miles, 2 locks)
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