Last night it rained for about 12 hours and my rain gauge indicated we had nearly 10 mm fall. As we had no where important to go today I waited until the rain stopped before setting off at 12-20 I should have waited another half an hour as is soon started again.
Just after leaving I saw but of an unusual sight, 6 herons on the towpath, I have tried to photograph them but its not come out to well. There were even more flying around so I suspect there is a Heronry in the trees opposite.
New Bridge is a very low swing bridge and each side of it there is a floating pontoon where you can wait for the bridge to swing. These pontoons are effectively islands as they are piled into the 
We carried on to the Town Moorings at Winsford passing The Red Lion moorings on the way, I looks as if someone has decided that their welcome garden looked too good and have remover the letter N and damaged the L. This is what it looked like 5 days ago.
Once onto Winsford Flash we turned sharp left to the Town Moorings that run parallel to the river.
There to meet us was a family of geese, I couldn’t convince them I was not trying to round them up as I did the U turn into the moorings.
I am not sure what size boats they were expecting to come this far up the Weaver but the mooring rings are big enough to moor a 
Today’s Journey
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It's not drivel, Brian, it's pure entertainment. We are off tomorrow on a continental camper-van bash but I have acquired a mifi device just so I can keep up with the blog. Well, and a few other odds and ends. Enjoy yourselves.
If you want drivel, come to my blog.
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