View from the back 51

Finally back on the Grand Union and no longer wearing a life jacket. 
To leave (and enter) the Thames you need to go with the appropriate tide. So you need to book the locks
We were the only boat  perhaps a sign of autumn.
Breakfast over we have to tackle the Hanwell flight .

EDIT. Canals around cities, sadly, have too much rubbish in them. While waiting for a lock to fill I espied the Extra floating in the duckweed: the doll and the vodka bottle sounds like a short story. (On a technical note Blip would not accept this picture when I tried to upload it, cropping it on the PC seems to have worked)