Dunham on Wednesday

Having got through Trafford Park, Sale and Broadheath, this is more like it! Not a cycle way in sight but, strangely, people were still able to enjoy the canal!?

Happy days

To give you an idea of where we are, the next shot is of Dunham Massey Hall and all I've done is rotate 90 degrees to my right.

We stayed here for two days and enjoyed every second. Even with getting a bit of boat maintenance done plus laundry duties we had ample time to chill, visit the local farm shop - and The Axe and Cleaver! - and walk through Dunham Massey before dragging some tiddler roach out of the canal (Elaine caught one!), all on the first day.

Since using the fishing whip and bread punch I have never fished and come up empty (that's fate well and truly tempted!) but I almost did on Wednesday. I was getting nowhere with a piece of bread then, luckily, Poppy the black lab ran up and ate my bait, much to the embarrassment of her owner! A change to a plain white roll caught 2 decent roach so, due to Poppy, my 100% record remained intact.

Earlier that afternoon Charlotte and the boys came down and we barbecued at the far side of the towpath, away from the boat and next to a small stand of trees. This provided the boys with an ideal hunting ground and Logan, ably assisted by Wilson, ran amok in the trees, hunting imagined big game (perhaps he has a future as a Texan dentist?). It's uncanny, really, but judging by Logan's get up you'd be forgiven for believing he'd had a premonition of our location!

He wore this to the BBQ

As I write this and get back up to date we are on the visitor moorings in Lymm, having had a gentle cruise down, broken with a water stop at Ye Old Number 3 where we managed to get the roof washed as well. That's as busy as we like to get these days!

Given the forecast for this evening and tomorrow we may well only move on during Saturday. As usual, we won't be going too far!