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  Well, Christmas isn’t going to be how we imagined it, but then it isn’t for a lot of people!   We stayed in Stone for the second lockdown and when it finished, we found that the area we were in was a Tier 3 zone, and the information from […]

    Coming to the end of the Harecastle Tunnel and exiting after a 40 minute journey.     Our tunnel booking was for 12 noon on Sunday 25th Oct,  so we meandered round to the holding moorings, arriving at about 11.00 a.m. We needed to take the roofbox and […]

  We stayed at our moorings at Haughton Dale Nature Reserve for two nights (to have a bit of a rest after all the locks!) and had some lovely walks around the area – it’s a bit hilly but then it is on the edge of the Peak District! There […]

  On Thursday, 10th September, we cruised northwards again, passing through the two tunnels, Barnton and Saltersford, and moored after another few miles at Dutton Bridge. I’d remembered seeing a conker tree there before, so Sal and I went off conker scrumping, but the tree was nearly devoid – other […]

        We left the gorgeous moorings at Bramble Cuttings on Thurs, 13th Aug, to make our way towards the Anderton Boat Lift area – we had booked passage on the lift for Sunday 16th. We found, though, that we’d run out of water filters for our jug, […]

      On Tuesday 21st July, we left the lovely moorings beside Hurleston Reservoir, having spent two nights and a lovely relaxing day there. We set off early with Tony walking with Sal, passing the junction with the Middlewich Branch just over a mile along the canal. The canal […]

   We moved from our mooring in Audlem at the top of the locks to the offside mooring at the bottom of the locks, opposite to the towpath. There were no passing walkers, being offside, which meant we could leave Sal outside with a clear conscience. (One of my bugbears […]

        Two months to the day after the normal mooring rules were suspended, the restrictions were lifted again. We are now allowed to cruise again, but leisure boaters are still restricted to day trips and are not permitted to stay on their boats overnight. For us, though, […]

  We stayed in Walsall Town Arm Basin for three nights in the end, and it was really quite nice (apart from a stabbing right outside the boat! The stabbing was concerning, obviously, but we felt quite safe as there were Police Officers outside the boat for the next 24 […]

  We stayed in Gas Street Basin for four nights and had a very pleasant stay. We decided against moving to the other side as we had no repeat of the thumping idiot incident. The weather, unfortunately, wasn’t great but we had some nice canal side walks. Sadly, we needed […]