Sorry for the pun, but we are now moored at bridge 2 on the Shropshire Union Canal, we are hoping to meet the two sets of grand children here. The day started very lazily, we did not rise till 9:30am, even for us ,retired and on holiday, that is late. Once Obi has had this poo walk, and I have cooked breakfast, today was bacon and egg in a roll with coffee. We untie the boat but in…
Today started at Knighton Visitor Moorings, this was beautiful quiet place, with some tree cover to keep us cool. Very poor 4G connection, but we have Star-Link up and running at the moment, Obi had his poo walk while I cooked breakfast which today it was a bacon and egg sandwich. It was a bit of a slow, as we had to pass lots of moored residential boats, it started to feel like almost…
After Obi’s poo walk, I cooked breakfast, eggs, bacon, mushrooms and part-baked bread with a coffee. Sonia then went to collect some blackberries and cooked them with the apples we had collected in Nantwich. I decided to break out the Brompton as I was going to ASDA for provisions. I use the bike so infrequently I had to watch a YouTube video on how to unfold it. Then the tyres needed a…
Today we are staying put as we have to wait till Monday for the alternator to arrive, so after Obi’s poo walk we left him to look after the boat and headed into town and passed The Crown Inn A Grade II-listed landmark The Crown Inn was another survivor of the town fire in 1651 and is one of 80 listed building around the town. King Charles I is reputed to have stayed there during the…
The day started well, Obi when for his poo walk with Sonia, while I cooked breakfast and made the coffee, after breakfast I wanted to get back to finding the problem we have with our alternators. The problem is that we had the normal high pitched buzz during starting the engine, once started one of the battery warning lights flickered and the buzzer buzzed, but at only about ¼ of the…
Yesterday we managed just one of the Audlem flight before we moored and walked uptown the excellent Shroppie Fly canal side pub, today we are going to finish the last 14 locks of the Audlem flight. Obi has a quick poo walk today as he will walk the Audlem flight, today’s breakfast was an over stuffed bacon roll as we had some bacon that needed eating. but by the time it was cooked and…
We have had a lovely stay in Nantwich, even if it was a little enforced by having to get and fit an new alternator, the town its self is beautiful, interesting building and shops with side streets that can still support a range of shops that all seem to be doing well, it is an example to other towns of what is possible. Today Obi had his poo walk and then we headed into town for a last coffee…
Today we have made the choice to turn around and head back down the Shropshire Union Canal and find another route to follow, above us we are hearing about broken locks and water shortages meaning we cannot head to the Middlewich Branch and onwards down the Trent and Mersey Canal. We wanted to do a quick wash, so we have started the engine and the solar is kicking out between 300-450W…
Obi had a shorter poo walk this morning as we are going to walk to the Roving Canal Traders Association Floating Market. This is the first day of a two day Floating Market on the canal at Shropshire Union Canal between Nantwich Aquaduct and the Nantwich Canal Centre. While not as many traders as we had expected, it was quality over quantity, with sone excellent stalls and a busy passing…
An early start today, for us 8.50am, Obi and Sonia head off to the first lock of the day which is just around the corner, while I sort Obi’s breakfast, make coffee and then follow in the boat. We have the Audlem Flight lock flight of 15 locks to complete, with another two called the Hack Green Locks before we reach Nantwich, with a few interesting well known places most Canal Boaters…
We have a target to get to Nantwich for late Wednesday or before midday Thursday, as Sonia is trying to get a train to Birmingham to go to Festival of Quits Show at the NEC on Friday, Oddly on the Shropshire Union Canal there are not a lot of nearby stations. We have been having a few battery charging issues yesterday and today. Our solar systems keeps popping the 60 Amp circuit breaker with…
Let’s be honest, I have no idea how you pronounce that.. but there are two pubs and I suspect we will try one tonight, but before that, what has happened today… The day starts as normal, Obi takes Sonia for his poo walk, while I get breakfast ready. Today was bacon, mushrooms, fried egg and bread. While I am preparing that I notice we have no power coming from the solar panels…
Obi and Sonia went for a Obi poo walk, while I prepared breakfast, not our traditional boat breakfast that it eaten on the chug of bacon and sausage in a bap, but a very similar Sausages, Bacon, Mushrooms, Fried egg and Mushrooms with Brown bread washed down with freshly brewed coffee. I then walked down to Autherley Junction to take some more pictures for the mapping site www.canalmaps.co.uk…
With the Wolverhampton Lock Flight being only open from 8am to 1pm for the next few days and on Monday it was closing completely due to lack of water, we decided to leave Wolverhampton without much of an explore, but at some point we will be back. But before we could leave we had a few job to do, including checking the engine alternator belts and clearing the rubbish of the prop…
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