Emerging from Saddington tunnel
We said goodbye to Foxton for the second time and headed on up the Lecister section of the Grand Union canal. Fairly sunny but very windy leading to some interesting manouvers! We passed through Saddington tunnel which is a bat sanctuary, but alas we saw no sign of any apart from a couple of 'bat boxes' fixed to the roof in the darkness.
Angela with today's new friends
Rolling english countryside all the way today with lots of fine views and an ever increasing number of farm animals and sheep in particular. The lambs are now half grown but still enchanting. Having been more exposed to seeing these lovely gentle creatures I (Angela) am now feeling increasingly gloomy about the day. Very soon, when they are taken for slaughter ( often not very humanely) - "The Silence of The Lambs". I am dreading seeing the fields without them and so glad I don't like meat - especially lamb!
A distant Leicestershire church
The locks on this section of canal have been pretty awful. All of them have been hard to operate, with stiff gear, jammed gates and the wind blowing gates open as fast as we closed them! We have moored up tonight in the middle of knowhere, by bumblebee lock just south of Leicester. Tonight will be the last quiet evening in the countryside before we fight the locks into the centre of Leicester.
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