The school holidays are over. The heatwave seems to have finished as well, although the canal system is still woefully short of water and much of the green and pleasant land is still yellow and brittle.
After a two week break (which included a three day trip to Cornwall and North Devon, visiting our old haunts in the days of small children and meeting up with members of both of our families) we have returned to Jannock.
The shorter journey to Barbridge was much better than taking most of the day on the motorways to get further North. There was no need for Aircon and so we arrived and moved back aboard in comfort – just before the rain started.
After all was stowed, beds made and lunch eaten, we set off towards Nantwich at 2:30pm. How civilised, and no risk of heat stroke (or frost-bite;-)
As we passed the junction we spotted all the pumps that CaRT have been using to refill the long pound above the locks. We stopped at Nantwich basin wharf, just past the services, to get a valet pump-out – grade 1. Never had such a thorough treatment at a commercial wharf before.
Then on across the embankment and on to Hack Green locks where we ascended following a hire boat and then moored for the night on the visitor moorings just past bridge 85. The bottom gates of lock 2 are leaking water badly - this sort of 'lack of maintenance' issue is the reason for so many canals have lock flights closed at present.
G&B
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