Stoke Bruerne

Last night, at Gt Linford, ther must have een some sort of festival/rave up in the park opposit, for there was a lot of loud music.   Some of it emanated it seems from a narrowboat on the park mooring, but there certainly were crowds.  The sounds of cavorting and merriment went on until past 2 o'clock in the morning.  We were glad to be moored up on the other side of the canal.  To our surprise, this morning, we found that it had rained overnight butg the skay was blue and the wind warm promising another sunny day.  We took 1 hour to get to Wolverton and Pat went shopping there in the massive Tesco store.   The truth is that yesterday, cruising in the sunshine, we had salivating moments dreaming about a fantasy of us enjoying capanes and Pimms on the back deck.  To Pat this was a sort of "dare".   So it was that having passed Yardley Gobion, out came a plate of stuffed olives, with canapes of pate & gerkin, cream cheese and tomato with miniature pork pies and cheese straws together wioth, yes, Pimms.   Amazing!   The Stoke Bruerne flight was busy with some new hirers from Blisworth coming the other way.  One boat coming down ahead of us tied up in the lock and nearly got hung up.   Very slow progress!   At Stoke Bruerne top lock we entertained the gongoozlers.  The skipper of Bullrush we had shared the fkight with remarked that he was more famous in Japan then here at home.   Fortunately we found a mooring and cold beer was very welcome.