Wednesday 25th May 2022
After a lovely sunny blue skied evening last night, followed by a good nights sleep in a lovely quiet mooring – today we woke to ‘grey out’! Waterproofs at the ready, we set off expecting a very lock heavy day. For most of the day we had all of the weather for most of the time.
At our very first lock we saw what we believe to be the most useless CaRT sign ever. Of course the lock is closed, it has no gates and it totally overgrown.
We continued on past Rhode Heath and Hassell Green and had done twelve locks, luckily meeting southbound traffic making passage easier, before we pulled over for lunch immediately after passing beneath the M6 motorway.
It was after lunch that I spotted this excellent spelling mistake on a commercial vehicle – how can mistakes like this get past management, printers and the people who actually livery the vehicle without being spotted?
The basin at Malkins Bank was full of working boats as usual. I must research to find out which canal carrying company had their base here.
We stopped at Wheelock for a water fill and then continued on into the countryside before mooring in the middle of no-where for another quiet night. Once stopped, Graham did some work on the Di Blasi carburetor ready for tomorrow’s planned car shuffle.
G&B
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