alafloat

Hi

Well what a weekend, we managed to get down onto the weaver were we spent a lovely weekend, Saturday Noreen and I went to Northwich by bus, surprisingly the bus journey to Northwich was quite uneventful? we even managed to get to the right side of the road. Northwich in my opinion is a one eyed country town, I was really expecting something quite unique with pretty avenues and expensive dress shops, but just like many other small towns the reality is far from the myth. the town is full of charity shops and inferior cafes, However the indoor market was very well stocked especially the vege and plant stalls. so after a very disappointing trip to Northwich we returned to the boat.

Maryanne came on Sunday morning and decided to take us out for a spin at more that 4 miles an hour, we headed off to Whichurch a very enjoyable trip through the Cheshire country side. again we arrived on a Sunday and found that Whitchurch was SHUT not even a cafe open we had lunch (a very medioca warm Tesco pie sat in the car in Tesco's car park " Oh how we laughed" only Hodges could find this funny.

At Tea time Thomas, Lorrasine and Mat arrived now that made six of us sleeping on Buggerlugs, I know we are all family but this is getting too cosy, but in true Hodgey style we managed, Mat Lorraine and Thomas in the bed room Maryanne Noreen, and I in the saloon with the two ladies deposited on the camp beds and brave me on the recliner, And yes we all had a good nights sleep. though at 6.30am the swans decided to clean the algae off the bottom of the boat making a horrible knocking noise.

We were moored at Salterford locks, the moorings are great but the road down to the lock is private and only for BW staff and residents but we had a word with lock keeper fed him some home made ginger nuts then he was putty in our hands and he gave us permission to put both cars in their car park, which made life so much easier.

Today we set off up the river and then up the Anderton lift back onto the canal it was a lovely sail with a bit of sun, after arriving at the top of the lift we decided to moor alongside the park and walk back to Salterford for the cars, It only took an hour and we all enjoyed the walk??????

Noreen and I are now again on our own and the boat seems very quiet and spacious

But not for long as they all return next weekend

keep Listening

Big Al