The Waiting Game

Moving up in the lock que

The girls give a hand

Over night mooring

Last week was a quiet one with Eiddwen away in Norwich with Lisa and the girls for a few days, so I made my way up to Swanley Marina with Eric and Elsie's help up through Hurleston locks in readiness for their return on Monday. I booked in there so they would have somewhere to leave the car and if the weather was bad we could go into Nantwich, as it happened the sun shone it's socks off and we had a lovely three days with them. Thanks for the help in the lock que girls.

When they left on Wednesday, E and I Moved back on to the Llangollen for the night and the next day down the Hurleston locks and back on to the Shroppie, we got as far as Audlem on Friday night intending to catch up with Eric and Elsie on Bendigedig the following day, having spoken to them, we knew they were just below lock 14 on the Audlem flight that was ten locks above us.

The next morning when I was opening the rear doors I found a note from BW saying do not move your boat, we will be along later to explain. It turns out there is a hole in the base of the canal 12 miles ahead of us and the water in that pound has gone. So we may be here for a week or so, that's a real hardship !! as we are 100yds from the shops, 10 yds from two pubs and the same distance from the services for water etc, how lucky was that.

That,s all for now folks