Thursday 18th August
Here we are at Church Lawton having travelled 3 miles and 10 locks from Hassall Green. On the way here we stopped to help some ‘silver ramblers’ who were trying to rescue a boat which had come adrift of its mooring. Apparently it had been moored there for a few weeks and the owners had gone off and left it. The ground is very soft and the mooring pin had come out, we pulled alongside and I got off, banged the pin in and retied the boat. The mooring ropes left a lot to be desired, they were very short, too short in fact only a few feet long and frayed too. People should be more careful where and how they leave their boats.
When we decided to stop here we noticed the moorings are the wrong height for painting the black (shame!) and as I couldn’t be bothered to touch up the red (again) we walked the remaining mile to Red Bull and went to the pub. We had a bit of a laugh (naughty really) when two rather substantial ‘Ladies What Lunch’ both sat on the same side of one of the tabled outside the pub and the whole thing was in grave danger of collapse!
When we returned to the boat we discovered everyone around us was doing some sort of painting. We were not encouraged to start ours though. After a cup of tea Ken began fishing and I did some inside jobs which I had neglected during my outside painting frenzy. This included cleaning the windows which is why it is now pissing down with rain!
Tomorrow we are meeting B and B on the Maccie.
