Now this wasn't the best mooring we have had. In fact surrounded by factories and a fire station made it feel a bit hemmed in. To top it all, at 4 am a women's
very loud voice came over the factories tannoy system calling for someone to take a phone call!!! Don't they realise people are trying to sleep!!
After breakfast we had a walk around Swaithwaite. Apart from the canal going through the center, there is not much going for it.
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| showing the narrow awkward bit to the lock 22E |
Some places are full of charity shops. This place is full of cafes, wine bars, sandwich shops,various eateries and hair saloons! One Co Op, one pharmacy, a butchers and a green grocers complete the picture. Another quirk of this place is as soon as you stop by a road the cars stop. In fact it got to a point that we felt obliged to cross over even if we didn't want to! So it was while we were walking back to FS that we started discussing Christine and her drive over to us tomorrow to drop Echo, stick insects and the Sunflower. Thats when we suddenly thought.....it would be a Friday...... Traffic would be a nightmare and she has at least 90+ miles to do to get to us as well as the return journey. So a phone call to see if she was willing to come today, a confirmation that she would and, after getting a bit lost and ending in Stalybridge, she arrived by 2.30pm. So lunch at the pub was late. More like late afternoon lunch/dinner and then a walk to the park before she finally left at 7pm.
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| Christine, Thomas and Josh |
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| Josh showing the lock by our moorings |
Now we can leave tomorrow instead of Saturday. Our next stop should be Huddersfield (if we can find a mooring) so an early start me thinks.
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