Tuesday 10th July 2018










Ethan sent us his photographs of his time

with us, this one of him steering. And managing

to miss everything.

With a big smile on his face.














We went into Northwich for our 9am appointment at the bank. The appointment was fruitful but we now have another on Friday. The way things are going we are never going to move on.

After a bit of shopping on the way back, we left the Broken Cross. The intention was to go up to Wincham Wharf and find Sandra, then to wind and head for Bramble Cutting again, before heading back to Middlewich to be there for England’s World Cup semi-final match on Wednesday night.







We saw Sandra but she reckons she won’t get to do our work until next week. So yet another week of hanging around waiting.

We were both a bit despondent and so had a change of plan. There are lovely moorings just before Anderton so we decided to head there and onto Middlewich tomorrow.

We were very lucky to have the moorings to ourselves, normally there are a number of boats here.







The views across towards Great Budworth and its distinctive church are quite stunning.

It was nice to be back in the countryside away from the noise of lorries and from directly under the flight path for Manchester airport and the low aircraft.





  



Day Total: 0 locks; 3 miles; 0 Tunnels; engine running hours 1.5

Overall Total: 99 locks; 172 miles; 8 tunnels; engine running hours 101.6




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