After a late start (waiting for a gap in the rain) we left Moore and cruised to Stockton Heath and stopped at Thorne Marine to do the services and fill up our heating tank with diesel. This time last year we wouldn't have bothered filling the heating tank, but this year we are still lighting our stove to warm the boat. E got talking to the very nice lady who runs Thorne Marine and she informed us of good places to moor and that this weekend was the Commodore of the Bridgewater Boating Club's first annual cruise and we probably wouldn't be able to moor at the rather picturesque village of Grapenhall. She wasn't wrong - there were plenty of boats there - some adorned with bunting.
Whilst boating clubs maybe some peoples idea of fun, they aren't ours - we prefer to be able to decide when and where we want to cruise, rather than being told that X weekend we are all going to Y.
As we cruised from Thorne Marine we soon ended up behind another boat going the same way - unfortunately they were going rather slowly. Now I know you can't rush on the canals (3mph is a fast speed), but this boat, well if he went any slower would have been stationary, so much so that our planned 2 hour cruise turned into a 3 hour one. Why such a short day planned? Well G has got the flu - and it ain't man flu, its real flu - aches, pains, no voice, coughing and spluttering. I (thankfully) haven't got it quite as bad as G (yet). We wanted to get to another of Cheshire's pretty villages - Lymm - and thankfully we got a good mooring there. It is very probable we will stay for a couple of days until G is feeling more human.
But on one final note - we have all seen graffiti - but occasionally we find a bit of graffiti art that makes us smile
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