Grand Union Canal:Yardey Gobion

After descending Grove Lock, the first job was shopping at the canalside Tesco in Leighton Buzzard.     Then on to Leighton Lock where we waited for a Wyvern Shipping to come up.    Newbies it seemed returning after their first trip.  "How do you know when the lock is full?" asked the crew.    Pat's opinion was that if they didn't know after a week's boating, something was wrong.    All the three Soulbury locks were full when we arrived and the pounds too, so after draining two of them the overflow onto the terrace of the pub was interesting.     Pat raised a bottom paddle of the lower lock to let some of it away.    Interesting also was that the Stoke Hammond pound was down with a lot of shallows evident by "Tsunamis" as we passed.   So perhaps not enough traffic to keep it topped up.       Moving on we stopped at Willowbridge for the "full house" of coal, gas and diesel.    Then on once again, Pat needing,  a lettuce, so we stopped at Wolverton.    Still with time in hand we continued on to Yardley Gobion where a mooring was waiting for us.