Today my son Mark and his girlfriend Abi are joining us for a little while. The weather has taken something of a turn for the worst, with heavy rain overnight and a morning temperature of 5 degrees C. We said goodbye to Peter and Wendy on Forget-me-not - eventually, after being invited onto their boat for a look around and receive instruction on Peter's sour bread, then onto ours to show them around and explain our battery monitoring gauge.
We eventually departed, locked through Vale Royal and Hunts Lock, mooring up again at the picnic area below the Anderton Lift. Annie and I then went a walk to try and find somewhere for Mark and Abi to park their car overnight. Luckily we bumped into Richard, from C&RT from the lift on his way home. He advised us to use the 'spare' car park at the adjacent
Stanley Arms pub. We went to check it out (of course). Richard later walked in and we bought him a pint - in return for some fascinating boating yarns and the tale of his growing up in
Parkgate on the Wirral.
Mark and Abi duly arrived around 7pm. I met them and walked them down to our mooring and a pleasant evening of chatting and catching up.
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| A cooler day.... |
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| I'm sure I saw a fish down here somewhere |
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| The lift. |
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