Kensal Green

Had a quiet weekend catching up on chores. Walked up the road to Warwick Avenue to make use of the launderette, just managed to get the washing done before the rain came.
Sunday was also  a quiet day. We did walk along to Paddington Basin to see if there were any mooring spaces as our time was nearly up at Little Venice. Having spotted one space we made a plan to get up at 7.00a.m., fill up with water and cruise down to see if the space was still there on Monday morning.
Having risen early we moved Josephine to the water point, and I went and recee'd the basin whilst Andy filled Josephine with water. (This procedure would take over 3/4 of an hour!)
Alas having walked along with the commuters on their way to Paddington Station, I was disappointed to find all moorings taken.
However by the time the tank was full, we decided to take a slow cruise down there to see if anyone was up and thinking of moving on, but no luck. Paddington Basin was not for us this year!
We then decided to cruise along about a mile and a half to Sainsbury's and top up the store cupboards. We also availed ourselves of their restaurant and had breakfast, it being 9.00 a,m.by now. Breakfast was cheap but not to be recommended! Was not the best we have had.
All fuelled up we headed along a few yards to Kensal Green where we spotted a mooring. We are in great surroundings, having Wormwood Scrubs Prison on our left and Kensal Green Cemetery on  our right! The neighbouring boats are quite dergy and look, as our New Zealand friends would say, like Lingalongers!
We have done some boat washing as she is filthy from being in Little Venice for nearly 2 weeks, with all the dust and sticky stuff from the trees, that living in the City occurs.
Hope to move on tomorrow, heading nearer to Cowley Peachy for the electrical thingamajig to be fitted at the end of the week. Getting a bit fed up with waiting around! Still intend to go down the Thames, hopefully next week, watch this space!