Norbury Junction to just beyond Brewood.

It is Grandma Peta's birthday today. She would have been 86. It's over a year now since she died, but we still miss her a lot.

It was another beautiful morning. Sunshine, blue skies and hardly a cloud in sight. The sky was very red with the sunrise, so we didn't expect the good weather to last. We were right. As soon as we moored up, the rain started. We have only managed to sit out on the towpath once so far. The wind was strong and quite cool. The sun is warm when the wind drops, but that's not very often.

It was very quiet for the first half of the morning. We hardly met any boats until we reached Wheaton Aston. The diesel at the garage here is only 66.9p a litre. We reached the lock just as another boat was coming out, so we were straight in and out again very quickly.

The kingfishers are still playing hide and seek, but I've stopped trying to photograph them. We saw a heron today, only the second one so far which is unusual.

We stopped at Brewood for some shopping and then carried on to the 48 hour moorings just past bridge 8 about 12.30. Thanks to the Shropshire Union Canal Society, there are lovely moorings, with rings, all along this canal. There has been a steady stream of boats passing this afternoon. These moorings were almost empty when we got her, but by 3.30 there were not many spaces left.

We are sitting here in the pouring rain, but at least we have an excellent Three signal - it's alternating between 3G and HDSPA.

10.5 miles. 1 lock.