The weekend rally at Pelsall was excellent.  There were over 100 boats moored along the canal by Pelsall Common.  Some old original working boats and butty’s, as well as more modern boats.  On the Saturday Paul helped out behind the bar for a few hours and on Sunday I helped on another stall.  There was entertainment both Friday and Saturday evening.  All of this was provided for free.  Paul also helped with taking down tents etc on Sunday when the rally finished.  From there we headed up to Chasewater reservoir on Monday.  Yesterday we have been retracing our route back towards Dudley as we are hoping to visit the Black Country Living Museum later this week.  Today found us in a line of about 7 boats descending a flight of 9 locks.  Water was low in some of the pounds, one was actually empty, so we all had to let some through to get moving!  So now we are moored for the night at Ocker Hill.