Cruising to be Champions? 4
Tuesday 13th April - Evening
Moored just above Weston Lock on the Trent and Mersey
For all of you familiar with the Trent and Mersey Canal you may have realised
that we have slowed down quite a bit.
We spent the weekend in Stone in Staffordshire and while there made the
decision that we are not going to get up the Erewash canal to be in Eastwood
for the last game of the season. We feel that we have been working too hard at
the boating and we have decided to slow down, back to no more than about 20
miles a week, and will have to find another way of getting to Eastwood for the
game.
We knew that we had set our selves a tough target, and so we have admitted
failure. We just hope the team doesn’t do the same.
We now feel a lot better and have got back to doing our cruising as we like it.
The weekend in Stone was a good one which helped in our decision making as we
didn’t really want to leave and stayed an extra day. We found the people nice
and friendly, found a good butchers, down a alley of the high street also
finding a wool shop that the lady, Jeanette had opened in January of this year.
We had our tea in The Star pub on Saturday evening, it was an ok Marston’s pub,
serving Bank’s ale and we got 2 teas for £8.
Then Sunday we went in to the Swan, just across the road from Star lock. They
offer larger selection of cask beer’s so that was a lot better. We sampled one
of the local brews, Stone Cutter.
Besides slowing down another reason we decided to stay on was that a blues
band, “Stonewashed Blues Band” where playing in the Swan on the Monday night,
so that sealed it.
They where well worth staying on for, a few of their own tunes and some covers
of stuff by Clapton and Ainsley Lister. A good night, I was drinking Red Diesel
and Carole on Midnight Stout, we think….couldn’t really remember.
We where fit to move today though after another visit to the butchers down the
alley. It was a nice day for a bit of cruising, did 3 locks and moored up just
round the corner before Weston Lock after passing through the village and then
struggling to find a length of bank we could moor on. There had been loads of
pilling before the village.
This is obviously a regular mooring spot as there where plenty of mooring pin
holes….but these are ours for a couple of days.
Southport are still in the driving seat to win the Blue Sq north league, over
the weekend we beat Droylsden 0-3 at their place while Fleetwood beat Ilkeston
0-1 at Ilkeston. We have 3 games to play and Fleetwood 2……
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