Last night I decided to pop into the Broughton Arms for
dinner just for a change, there was a
special offer on drinks, any two for a fiver, so I had two pints of Marstons
Pedigree, usual price in the pub £2.90 so I saved 80p by spending another
£2.10, not really saving is it, if the offer wasn’t running I might have only
had the one pint J
For dinner I had lamb shank, it was good, no complaints on quantity either, I
could not finish it all, roast potatoes, boiled new potatoes, carrots,
cauliflower, broccoli and a large Yorkshire pudding accompanied the large
shank. I left the pub to walk the 500yards to the boat when a sudden downpour,
absoloutely ferocious in nature, soaked me, despite me running, before I could
get the doors open, it was not the correct end to the visit.
Today I have moved on again, I was going to stay another day
but decided the pub might tempt me again and I didn’t fancy another soaking so
instead of doing 10 locks tomorrow I have done 6 of them today and made an
unplanned stop at Church Lawton.
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| First lock of the day (52) |
This chap decided the best spot to moor was in the pound
between the locks on the lock landing using the lovely bollards to tie up to,
very considerate of him.
As it happens it didn’t make a lot of difference to me because the
pounds between the locks are so short between the first four locks (52-49) and
with no other boats about I took to walking ahead and setting the next lock as
the current one was filling, so after closing the top gate behind me I was able to move straight into the next lock without stopping on the landings.
A small mishap at lock 48, oh yes I often have them, I just
don’t report them all, I could see the lock on the right was empty and the
gates were open, I could also see a chap apparently preparing to enter the left
lock to come down, so I headed full steam ahead towards the right hand lock,
discovering quite late that it was not empty, it was just no longer in use! A small
sign alerted me in time to swing across and try to get on the lock landing, which
was on the left, in one neat move; I misjudged it slightly and never dropped
sufficient speed clouting the bank a little too hard! I had wondered why the
lock on the right was empty and it looked like the vegetation at the entrance was a little overgrown;
now I knew J.
Having collected myself I walked up and locked the other
chap through and then went through the last two locks to moor up for today.
Having moored up I walked across the fields to look at the Church, the village is a couple of miles away and I didn't fancy walking that.
Totals today: 1.5 miles : 6 locks
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