Fenny Stratford

Saturday 27 September 2014 – Fenny Stratford, Grand Union Canal

This is getting to be routine – cloudy morning then sunny afternoons, but I’m not complaining.

I headed off at 08:00 on what turned out to be an interesting run.  On the way I passed the non Braidbar ‘Marmite’ and later a plastic, I hope, skeleton sitting in some bushes apparently fishing.  Later I came across a beautiful piece of artwork showing the view from a spacecraft heading towards Earth and the Moon (also inscribed ‘for EW’).  This was spoilt by the underpass of the bridge which in the past had been improved by paintings of butterflies which are now almost obliterated by the tagging the gets done.  There was a ‘breasted-up’ pair that allowed me to overtake as they were just moving house and then I came across a hire boat on a blind bend and my side of the canal who had stopped to pick some fruit from the roof of their boat.  I managed to miss them and got an apology but as they headed off they went into the bank.

On this stretch there are locks at Cosgrove which is the last one down from Norton Junction and Fenny Stratford, the start of the climb to Tring Summit.