We arrived in Birmingham and moored by the NIA.
Guess who was appearing for 3 nights ?
Guess who didn’t have a ticket?
Cirque du soleil and me.
Its now on my bucket list !!!!!

Spoke to my chum in Spain, Sue, and here is a pic of us just
after we had spoken to you. ! X
This little lock with a guillotine gate was interesting.
J&M+2, had gone in front of us, and they have done this bit before, so knew
what was going to happen , and they stopped and watched…….with glee ?
Bump, bump bumpety bump.
It was like being in a pinball machine, as we hit one side, then the
next etc. Mick agreed that he had gone at it too fast. He is such a speed merchant. !!!!
Ended up 2 nights in Brum, due to the fact that we do NOT
want to do the Wolverhampton flight of 19 locks, when the numpties are about.
Wait until they go back to school, if, indeed, they do. Ha.
Anyway, we found a wetherspoons and decided tyo go “out on
the town”- cor Friday night in Birmingham.
HOWEVER, we were back at the boats at about 8 o’clock,, just as all the
youngsters were going out. !!!! We live life to the full, you know. Nightcap on
friends boat was …. Err a bourbon.
Don’t like it, and I had a bit of a head the next day.

Have now moved down to the Black Country Museum in Dudley. A
canalside village set up as a living museum, with coal mine, glass blowing, old pub….mmmmm and
a 1930’s fish and chip shop. !!!! No
roast dinner today, Sunday. Will just have to be fish and chips. Done in beer
batter and cooked in dripping. Blimey,
better have some veggie dinners over the next few days to compensate.
On the way to Dudley, our travelling chum led us down a
different arm to get to Dudley, but we couldn’t get through the first lock, as
something was stuck on the cill. Sooooo, we had to reverse all the way
out. That took about an hour, and we picked up some
rubbish on the prop. Photos later.