Not long now!

We are going to set off again on Sunday the 1st of March. Right now, of course the whole of Derby feels like it is under water and there is talk of more rain to come! The road in Willington is flooded and a large part of the A38, which is the main arterial road around here is under water. The river Trent is very high and has broken its banks in many places. The canal is somewhat sheltered from all this water as it is managed and has flood gates to prevent it from flooding, but there is the river section at Alrewas, which right now is closed. So, when we set off, if nothing has changed we will not get very far!

As promised, I will update the blog much more often when we get going. The first week we will have Damara (my Daughter) with us – so I hope we can get to our planned destination of Stone. We are already booked into a Marina there as we need to go back to Swindon for medical stuff (all regular checks etc, nothing serous). To get to Stone we need to get through the Alrewas river section, and that is a long way from being open at the moment – so we have to hope for less rain to give the river a chance to drop.

With all this rain and local flooding we do feel lucky that we live on a boat! Especially as we are on a canal section and not a river. Where we used to moor on the Avon at Strensham we would be under water and unable to get on or off the boat right now.