We awoke on Tuesday morning to Sid not feeling brilliant so we took the decision to try to do the journey from Banbury to Fenny in one go. This is most unlike us because we usually like to pause overnight in Cropredy.
During our steady progress through the regularly spaced locks between Banbury and Cropredy Sid complained of a strange pain in his shin. On checking there was no sign of anything sinister so we pressed onwards and upwards. We took a short lunch stop b3fore ascending the Claydon flight of five locks. We took another look at Sid's leg only to see a red rash appearing and he was feeling rather feverish . We began to worry!
By the time we reached top lock it was getting more and more obvious that we needed to get Sid to hospital. We arrived at Fenny, moored Hunters Moon, loaded the car with some of our 'stuff' and got on the road in less than an hour. It usually takes us several hours so you can imagine we left HM in a bit of a hurry.
Having discounted finding a local doctor or Oxford hospital Sid wanted to get back to Chichester. We arrived at St Richard's at 7.30pm and, to cut a long story short, Sid spent the next 6 days in hospital with a severe cellulitis infection.
This was not quite the way we intended to end our fantastic cruising year.
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