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    Melaleuca
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    Nantwich

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  3. The two taps at Gnosall have very different speeds. One being very slow. I can never remember which is which. At the other end of the scale, the water point below Three Locks, GU, capable of launching the hose out of the filler neck or drilling a hole in the bottom of the water tank. MP.
  4. You're outside my experience now. Maybe Heritage Marina could help with that? MP.
  5. You can get a car off the road at the CRT yard where the tap is. The gate lock isn't a watermate key, but there's enough room to park a car roadside of the gate, and gap big enough to carry cassettes through to the car. Bosely sani is 10 minutes from there by road and easily accessible by car. MP.
  6. There's a Morrisons within walking distance of the canal at Buglawton. You could combine a trip to the water point with a visit there. We spent a lot of lockdown 1 around Congleton with Bosley flight closed, doing a car shuffle to get the sh*t suitcases emptied at Bosely services.
  7. Still shuddering at the story of one of our fellow moorers at Henhull, who left his boat for several years due to reasons, came back and found a rat city inside. The whole thing is totally trashed. On the cow front, we had a cow fall in between the boat and the bank at the Devil's Graden on the Weaver in the small hours. Being awoken by a very big splash and the boat rocking violently is quite alarming. There's a whole story around getting the cow out again which involves firemen running around with torches also in the small hours which I'll tell you if you really want to know. MP.
  8. Hope the damage is not too bad. At least your living accommodation floats. MP.
  9. We're on the floating pontoon VMs in Macclesfield. I know the Macc is unlikely to rise very much, but you can't be too careful......... MP.
  10. Today, between Aqueduct Marina and Wheelock, we've been past an empty hire boat or two at pretty much every road bridge with access to the canal. It looks like the hirers were told to get within luggage-carrying distance of a road and collected with their stuff. I imagine that there are not that many hire boats out at this time of the year, so the boats themselves can be collected as the companies have available staff. MP.
  11. Came down Stanthorne this morning. The queue was what I'd describe as normal. Three boats in front of us when we arrived, and three more had arrived behind by the time we were going into the lock. The repair looks pretty tidy and durable. MP.
  12. We're in the house. The heating had been on sporadically but not really doing much. Yesterday was a miserable wet day in Ireland so we used that as an excuse to try out the new batch of firewood that was delivered last week. The stove was lit with four logs at tea time and that was all we burned all evening. MP.
  13. Me too, mainly between the canal and Aldi. It's further on the way back with loaded shopping bags. MP.
  14. We re-joined our boat at Norbury a couple of years back by public transport. Train to Stafford, then bus to Gnosall and walk the last couple of miles up the towpath, as I remember. Nantwich has a railway station. MP.
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