Sunday morning we woke to a landscape covered in snow, what a surprise, about an 1" had fallen overnight. Monday pm I took my first dip in the cut, well it was a sort of slide in feet first up to my waist. The girls had set the lock and opened the gate for me, I pushed the boat away from the bank and missed my footing and slid into the cut!!, by the time I got out, the boat had drifted over to the other side of the canal, Eric went and retrieved it for me. Half an hour later, a shower and clean set of clothes and we were on our way again. We stopped in Wrenbury for 2 days whilst Elsie went home to see their new grand daughter.
We arrived at Hurleston Locks on Thursday noon, the end of the Llangollen Canal and turned on to The Shropshire Union Canal, Elsie & Eric turned left to go to Sandbach for some work on the boat, we turned right and headed for Nantwich for 2 days and then on to Audlem, which is where we are tonight. Just returned from a meal at the Shropi Fly, not bad at all . The weather today has been horrendous sleet & hale most of the day. The last week we have covered 35 Miles and 25 locks.
We will meet up with the 2 E's in a couple of weeks, somewhere near the Trent & Mersey Canal, we will then go down the Coventry, and then the Oxford, on to the Grand Union and then make our way to London together which is the destination of our summer cruise. See you next week.
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