This the second of three catch up blogs!
As we got back to Lancashire we had a cold snap, and we were frozen in at Burscough.
As a last minute treat, we went to see Aladdin in pantomime at The Grand, Blackpool. It was our last chance to celebrate with the three big grandchildren, as they were spending the whole of the Christmas holidays at their dad’s in Dunstable.
On a very blustery day I noticed a beer barrel floating down the canal at Burscough. So John rescued it. Luckily it had the delivery address on it, the Thirsty Duck, at the wharf, one of our favourite pubs. So we returned it straight away. The towpath had almost as much water as the canal.
We just never get tired of kingfishers and are amazed at the noisy the geese make as they fly over.
John was busy weaving on his 24” rigid heddle loom. He got his first commission for another boater.
The inkle loom hasn’t been out of the cupboard since we moved aboard.
John made, what we fondly call ‘slab’, other people call it ‘Scottish tablet’!! It needs to be simmered & stirred for about an hour.
I went to Chorley to wave the kids off with their dad. The evening before we went to the ‘Winter Wonderland’ in the town. The boys were quite good at skating on the ice after their 45-minute session.
I made mince pies ready for when Dale picked us up from Burscough for Christmas in Chorley.
Christmas morning was quite subdued without any excited children.
However, by dinner time we were all excited for Astrid’s first Christmas. She brought her two pals Beatrix & Freya, plus their mum & dad. The twins are 4 months younger than Astrid.
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