Today I had toast with paddington bear marmalade. After that we headed off to our destination - chaga chaga chaga chaga - till the very next lock - hour after hour. We went through a tunnel and I got to toot the horn. We found a stoat drowning in the water; we had to save it because they are native in Europe. So dad got the boat hook and saved it - how heroic.

E here - since Jack last wrote we have had two days on the Avon River and one of the Severn. We have now just spent a couple of days in Worcester. Such a lovely city. We went to yet another museum or two, Greyfriars house, the Cathedral (and some of us, including Jack, attended evensong) and did some long over-due laundry. England experienced a mini heat wave and we all got out our summer clothes. We are now left with just one more day on the canal.