Wednesday 20th May 2020



Brenda’s back was none too good, probably after carrying the shopping yesterday, so she stayed in bed for a few hours.

A few items were ordered from Amazon for delivery to Tracey’s. Water flowmeters and magnetic USB chargers. Lord knows when we will be able to collect them.

We witnessed a curious event in the morning. A baby rabbit crossed the towpath, dropped into the canal and swam to the other bank where it climbed back out. Never knew rabbits could even swim.

We walked gently to the chandlery. Susan had done some shopping for us, arranged before Brenda went into Nantwich with Jemima. Susan had also collected the Osmo Polyx-Oil from Potters in Nantwich. I’m really pleased to have that on board and now, maybe, I can treat the front cratch.

Jemima had friends visit from Eccles, who had travelled out by motorbike. With Jill being extremely vulnerable, social distancing was strictly observed.

It was a very hot day and we didn’t see Harvey at all. Once he had been out for his morning ablutions, he stayed on the boat, flaked out on the mat, until he was carried out for further toilet stops. He has never been one for the heat and suffers terribly.

CRT sent out an update to their notification of 13th. The update states that mooring restrictions on any visitor moorings now come into effect on 23rd May and any boat so moored has to observe the restriction and move. Syke’s Hollow is a 48-hour visitor mooring and so, strictly speaking, we have to move by 25th. We feel this is far too early to make boats move, goes against Government guidelines and we would feel very uncomfortable moving. We have been attempting to ring CRT but have not been able to get a signal.  
In the evening, we all joined Jacob, catching Mayflies with his fishing nets. Great fun and all for free. The lad will be collecting some fantastic memories here that he will remember forever.

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