Wool Road to Upper Mill to Roaches Lock

We've  had our coal delivered by a very helpful lady from The Coal Shack 4 x 25kg delivered for £36 and I also managed to get a Tesco delivery together and delivered to Wool Road so am feeling pretty pleased with myself lol
Uppermill was our next destination and it was only 3 locks away so a nice easy day for me :0)
We knew the weather was due to be bad, amber rain warnings on the news.  We had had yellow alerts before, but amber was a new one for us.


We arrived at Uppermill just before the rain started and it didn't look like it would be stopping for a fair while so shopping was done in Yogi's stock-mans coat, rain hat and with umbrella!!  Had a load of parcels to post so it was unavoidable.  Decided to nip in the butchers for some of their pork and apple sausages which are YUMMY and some nice dry cured bacon.  The co-op to get daily boring shopping and the charity shops because they are there!!

I got back into the warm and waited for the rain to stop.  Poor old Buster even gave up and had to go out into the rain and he proper hates getting wet!!
Whilst I was walking him I noticed that the stream that I had used the stepping stone bridge on previous visits was running very fast and was a lot bigger than normal.  The picture shows were the stepping stones were.  An hour later the water was up to the top step at the back of the picture and right up to the foreground.
Yogi was in and out all night and whilst in the high street saw that the river was so high it was lapping up at the window sills of the houses that were next to it!!!
The locals were horrified, they had never seen anything like it in 40 years!!


It was a very stressful evening and we were both very relieved when the rain did finally stop at about 1am.  The next morning it was dry thankfully and the stepping stones were just popping back through the water of the river.
At about 4pm on Saturday I had done all my jobs and still had some energy left so we decided to carry on for a bit and headed for Roaches Lock.  We had passed there on the way up, but didn't stop as the visitor moorings were full up.  It was only about 9 locks so it was easily do-able in a few hours.   We had our trusty pallet now so it didn't matter if there was no room, we can moor where we like now. :0) 


It didn't take long to get there and we were moored up at the visitor moorings and in bed by 9pm.  


By 9.30pm we were up again as SB was listing terribly to the left.  To such an extent that Yogi half got out and half fell out of bed. So we  both had to get up and lever her off of the ledge she had managed to get herself stuck on.  All the other boats moored there were ok.  Just us at a 45 degree angle (well not quite, but it felt like it).  
Wish we had used the pallet now!!