Friday, 29 March 2019

A family crew



Edmund and Josh came to stay for a few days, so Heather & Ada both booked some time off work so they could also spend a few days with their brother as we are all 200 miles away from him. We were blessed with lovely sunny weather.





Tuesday we cruised from Rufford to Tarleton so uncle Ed could meet the three kids from school. We then all cruised to the lovely remote spot at Sollom for tea, which for shear ease was a finger buffet for the 10 of us. The children are experts at how to unlock & move the swing bridges.





Wednesday was Edmund’s birthday so we took advantage of an extra crew of 5 to head up the locks on the Rufford Branch. It was great having 2 strong lads to lift the clough ground paddles for us. We know from previous experience that some of the upper pounds can be quite low and true to form one was indeed very low. The job of running water down to get us afloat when were were grounded was a wizz when you could phone ahead to the advance locking crew. We also ended up with a huge bag around the prop, which luckily came off fairly easily.






















We had a great birthday meal at The Hop Vine pub in Burscough. While we waited for our meals to be served we played dominoes and Dobble. Heather made a lovely birthday cake with 29 candles on
that set off the smoke detector when he blew them out.















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