Gifford Park (Milton Keynes), Grand Union – Tuesday 2 October 2012
The satellite box is dead easy to set up, even I managed.  Put box on roof with handle pointing north and connect cables, go into boat and turn the bits on, use searcher to find satellite, watch TV!  Today was another 08:00 start but it was cloudy and decidedly chilly.  I was at the Blisworth tunnel by 09:00 and going through met a working pair, another working boat, and three hire boats.  The tunnel is wide enough for two boats to pass but has a wider middle section which is newer and made of concrete sections.  Of course none of the boats I met were in the wide bit, they all passed in the two end sections.  At Stoke Bruerne there were still a few boats from the weekend and I joined up with ‘Lady Claire’ to go down the locks.  There was a pair coming up at each one so it was an easy run.  It was then just a run to Cosgrove for the next lock (3ft drop), then o round the north of Milton Keynes.  The sun has been out for most of the day but it has also been cloudy.