Happy New Year

Happy New year and decade to everyone. The boat looks very bare now all the decorations are down.

We saw the new year in moored with friends near ‘the wood yard’, on the outskirts of Burscough, Leeds & Liverpool Canal. We had a little bonfire which we sat around.

 

We had a 180º panoramic view towards the south & east and saw the midnight fireworks for miles around. It was easy to pick out Liverpool’s tremendous display.

There were some lovely sunrises over the old Burscough airfield.

 

The three grandchildren helped us moor at the wood yard, before we left Burscough though, we all went to Tesco for an ice cream for breakfast!!! 

 

It was a gorgeous day and we sat out all afternoon. The kids had fun helping us build a wood pile.

 

This was a very different Christmas for me, my first adult only one. Heather & family were in Scotland for the week at my sister’s in Dundee.

We went to stay a few days with Ada & Dale in Chorley. Edmund had his first Christmas off in 5 years and came up with Josh. We had an excellent time and I had one of Josh’s bubble gums, which I don’t think I’d had since I was a child!!!

We brought ourselves a joint Christmas present, an electric saw, which John tried out on New Years eve ready for our fire.

We brought the boat back down the Rufford Branch & it’s 7 locks and 5 swing bridges on Friday as lock 1 is having planned essential work done starting this week, it’ll be closed until March now.

We had our fantastic mini crew to hand and got all the way to Tarleton by lunch time. The kids worked really hard.

Magnus had a rainbow over his head.

The swans weren’t prepared to leave their bridge spot!!!

 

Once their dad had picked them up, we did a twilight cruise to Sollom, one of our favourite mooring spots.

We saw a huge gaggle of geese taking off and circling around in the dim light.

We’ve had a wonderful few days cruising and today I’ve had to scrub the floor to get rid of all the mud.