Last night we enjoyed two good meals and a bottle of red in The Old Barbridge Inn. There were very few people in the restaurant but that said that the whole week had been very busy, lots of people eating in the garden.
We left a little before 10 Am. and had just pulled away when Matt came up behind us with a pair of boats heading for Audlem. The temporary pumps that are being used to pump water up from the SU to Herleston reservoir didn’t appear to be running as we passed. The Herleston lock flight remains closed, I am not sure if this is to do with problems with the locks or lack of water above them .
We stopped at the services in Nantwich to dispose of recycling and top up with water. I bought a new metal tap connector for the hose in Lidl the other day and I must say it works well. easy to screw and unscrew from the tap, plus the hose latches easily with no leaks, I will keep the plastic ones as spares. While we were here Minow towing Iford came by.
We followed them up to the Hack Green locks where we helped them all through including the boat behind us that was with them. The locks were quite busy with boats passing every time, so efficient use of the water, having said that both the pound between the locks and the long pound above it are running on weir. Once up the locks we did about a mile before stopping at the SUCS picknick site for the night.
Today’s Journey 7¼ Miles with 2 locks in 4¼ hours
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