Tattenhall

Not the best night sleep last night, it was a lovely night and a group of females were singing somewhere, A little later it was the police cars howling around. After that it went quiet for a few hours until about 4am this morning a helicopter hovered directly above us making quite a din, enough to make me go out and look, even then there were police cars with the blue lights on. After that we got a bit more sleep.
While Diana was in Tesco’s I took a couple of photos of the paving stones, these are obviously salvaged from elsewhere like a lot of stone in the City.

, turned out her two

As Diana returned a boat came up the cut so I pulled out behind her thinking it was a lady single handing, but it turned out she had her two young grandsons with her. With me and the two boys working the locks we did all five locks together. They were still working on the demolition opposite the moorings . 

Just beyond the tower another building has been completely demolished and MacArthur and Stone are building retirement apartments on it.

Once at the top of the flight we stopped for water and the other boat carried on, we did meet two boats coming down the flight, but there was a boat ahead of us going up so that was no help. At that point it started to rain and we had a light shower for most of the rest of the journey.
More demolition almost opposite the Cheshire Cat pub. it was an architects office last time we were in this area.

We saw our first family of geese swimming in the canal near the Golden Nook moorings, I timed out

passing them today and it toom a little over half an hour. We went a short way passed Tattenhall Marina to moor for the night, checking the log I was about 12 hours overdue for an  oil and filter change, so that’s another job sorted, I will check the batteries tomorrow.

Today’s Journey 8¼ miles with 5 locks on 5 hours