Tuesday, July 5th...

Every Tuesday morning Hilary volunteers at a village school, reading with young children.  I had a leisurely morning to read.  We had lunch when she returned and went down to the canal, which is 10 minutes away, for a walk.  The canal is a water way for transporting goods from London to Burmingham and in between those Cities.  It isn't very wide, about 30 feet, the boats that utilize it are not very big.   We started our walk at a pub along the canal with a wonderful outside eating area called The Three Horseshoes.

The canal has lochs every so often that boats have to go through so they have to tie up their boats and go up and hand control the loch to change the water levels (a mini version of the Panama Canal).  There was a boat doing just that today carrying a few pallets of what looked like insulation material.

Along the edge of the canal are house boats that are one story and very narrow. 

In photo one of the houseboats and photo 4 you can see that the residence have made little garden areas on land. In photo two you can see the path to the right that we were walking on so I could have walked up and knocked on their door.