Marsworth Lock 38

We made good progress this morning as far as Sewer Lock.  However the pound ahead had little water.  Pat went on to look at the next lock with a view to letting some water down, but the pound above was also down.   Fortunately British Waterways had already been notified and the boys were already on the case, informing us of an hour's delay.   Two boats arrived below us and then a third which leapfrogged and joined us in the empty lock waiting.  nb Daisy Rose was heading for Berkhamsted to meet friends, so we left them there and carried on.   We had Marsworth flight to ourselves and took 1 hour 15 mins to descend the first 7.   Scare stories of no water proved unfounded although the last pound was a little down but normal enough for this flight in my experience.   We continued on to the stretch above the last two Marsworth locks wherre we know we can get good TV from Oxford.