Thursday 30th April 2020



We were up early and on the move before 8am. The cruise into Nantwich, over now very familiar ground, was uneventful. We stopped at the service point, watered up, doing a bedding wash, dumped rubbish and emptied the loo before moving further down the embankment and mooring.

We did two shopping runs, one to Boots, where we had to queue for 45 minutes, the fishmonger, butchers and Morrisons. With all the heavy items strapped to the sack trolley, it makes the shopping lot easier, but it is still a long way back to the boat.

While Brenda unpacked, I visited the chandlery for some cable to fit more 12V charging points and some isolation valves for the water pump, items that Susan doesn’t have. We then did a second shopping run, this time just to Morrisons, but this time, for some reason, they would not allow us in the store together. The world is a crazy place at the moment.

Then another trudge back to the boat. Brenda unpacked while we cruised up to the winding hole and we dumped the packaging in the bins at the service point on the way past. Then we were headed, once again and with much relief, back out into the countryside, leaving Nantwich behind us.

A lot of people are obviously getting fed up with the lock-down and not getting the message of a possible second peak in deaths. Although there were a few more cars about, there was significantly more people. Whether this was just the time of day or not, but it was noticeable.

                                             Banner Poster at Nantwich Aqueduct
                                            -although nobody seems to take notice

On the outskirts of the town, we came across Lol and Jackie and stopped for a chat, then gave Lol a lift to Barbridge to collect their car. The rain was intermittent on the run to Venetian, but it was not long before we moored just above the lock. It had been a long and hard day, but needs must and we consider ourselves luckier than most.

We both really enjoyed our dinner of fresh trout, Jersey Royal new potatoes and salad. So nice to have fresh food again. 



Day Total: 0 locks; 8 miles; 0 Tunnels; 0 Swing Bridges; 0 Lift Bridges; 0 Boat Lift; Day’s running hours 3.9

Overall Total: 909 locks; 1629 miles; 53 tunnels; 61 Swing Bridges; 17 Lift Bridges; 2 Boat Lifts; total engine running hours 1101.6

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Image
Thursday 22 nd November 2018 We were awake during the night and watched a lovely, bright, full moon in a clear sky with a thick ground mist. When we woke this morning the world was white after a hard frost. Apparently it got down to -4 ˚ overnight. The stove has remained light since its first lighting on 19 th October. This morning was no exception and the boat was cold but not overly so, the stove having been damped down overnight. However, we did turn the heating on for ½ hour to warm the boat up while the stove was heating up. We haven’t had the heating on for some time but the times we have, has been when the boat has become cold. We still haven’t yet mastered the regulating of the heating. If it is left on too long, the boat becomes oppressively hot and remains so for a long time.   We went for a walk to the nearest village, Stockton. The walk was along a main road to begin with and was not pleasant with all the traffic and narrow verges to walk on. We w...
Read more
Image
Sunday 14 th July 2019 We went for a walk around Avoncliffe before a slow cruise covering the 1 ½ miles back into Bradford and were, yet again, lucky enough to find a place on the 48 hour moorings. Avoncliffe is a tiny, delightful place and a very popular stop for walkers and cyclists. Around the Cross Guns pub are a few cottages, all staggered towards the river bank and dominated by the Aqueduct. However, looking at signs from the past, it had once been a thriving small-scale industrial centre with water mills and factory mills concerned with the cloth industry. The up-market Avoncliffe Villa apartments bely their past as, first the Bradford Workhouse, then a convalescence hospital for injured First World War troops and later a hotel. Right our Bradford moorings, down a small embankment, is Barton Farm. The farm buildings are all Medieval and consist of a Manor House, a Granary, one of the best examples of a Tithe Barn and several other buildings. Today, the Tithe Barn ...
Read more
Image
Monday 30 th July 2018 We ambled about in the morning. Brenda did some housework and I walked up into Winsford for some shopping. The day was not good, a lot of cloud and threatening rain. Matt brought Manny and Eva out to us at 3pm. Just as they turned up the heavens opened with heavy rain. It was great to see them both, they are here for a week, so hopefully we won’t get sick of them and make them swim home. Once Matt had gone we waited a short while for the rain to stop and then set off. We passed under the two bridges that make up the roundabout at the bottom end of Winsford which we have travelled over countless times by car. As soon as you pass under the first bridge you are off Canal and River Trust waters. We winded at the entrance to the marina being careful not to venture too far into the flash because of the danger of shifting, shallow sandbanks and then started to retrace our route. This now put us right at the start of the Weaver Navigation and by th...
Read more