Don't rock the boat - day 3+4 update (Wednesday)

Wednesday morning and we've woken up in Teddington, because that's where we moored last night.
Yesterday was a day of battery shopping and diagnostic battery scenes on laura's boat. Her starter battery hadn't previously been connected and now it seems her alternator isn't wiring either, so we're not out of the woods yet.
The evening crossing from Brentford to Teddington was beautiful. The sunset was milky - I'd forgotten what a lovely looking river this is.
More pics and updates soon, but now I need to go into laura's engine room with a voltmeter.....

Meantime, here's a postcard given to me by the friendly lockkeeper at Teddington. An e-postcard.

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