Monday 25th July
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| My flowers and Gin |
It is my birthday today and the sun was shining, hurray! I had lots of texts and emails and two e-cards
so that was lovely, thanks to everyone and also a pressie to open from my Dad
and Mavis as they gave it to me earlier in the year and Kev gave me a small leather purse, some lovely flowers and a bottle of Monkey 47 Gin so looking forward to having that,
so I did really well. Also a few cards
have been sent to my Dad’s house so Mavis is sending them to the local post
office and I should be able to pick them up tomorrow. We are on the move today to Great Haywood and
was going to have lunch in the pub there but we have found out they are not
serving food today so we are going to have a meal there on Tuesday
instead. I had my birthday meal last
Friday at the Plum Pudding but Kev says I can have another one!
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| Coming into Colwich Lock |
We set off along the canal and it was quite busy going our
way, a couple of boats passed us while we were waiting to pull out so we
followed along behind them. After about
a mile we came to Colwich Lock and the two boats ahead of us were moored up waiting
to go through.
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| Queue waiting to go down lock |
I walked up to the lock and it was very busy, people
everywhere, we thought it was a bit of a queue our side with three boats, but
the other side there was about six boats waiting to go through and as we waited
for our turn, no more came our way but they kept coming the other way so the
queue didn’t go down that side.
It was quite a wait but eventually it was our turn and Kev
brought the lock into the boat and I filled the lock then we were on our way
again past all the boats waiting to go down the lock, glad we were going the
way we were!
We chugged on for a bit and then we were at Great Haywood
and the moorings were really empty so we had the pick of the spots and moored
up in a nice sunny spot not too far from the footbridge over the canal with views of Shugborough Hall.
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| Canalside Cafe |
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| Canalside Farm Shop |
We chilled out for a bit then went for a walk up the canal
to the Farm Shop and they were still doing pick your own strawberries although
there weren’t so many ripe ones as last time but we managed to pick a punnet
full and then we had a wander around the farm shop and bought a few nice
things. We then went for a coffee in the
Canalside Café and sat by the canal watching the boats go by.
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| Nice view from here Petunia! |
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| View of Shugborough Hall from our Mooring |
We took our goodies back to the boat then thought we would
walk up onto the footbridge and see where that went to. We took one of the paths which we thought
would go to Little Haywood and we set off through the fields, past the sheep
but there didn’t seem to be any gates leading out of the fields onto the road
so we kept going and going and came to some cows they were okay, they were only
young and just kept running when they saw us but thankfully away from us not
toward us!
Eventually we got to the end and there was barbed wire and a
very posh house, we couldn’t see anywhere to get out so we had to trudge back
again, through the grass and trees and fields, we thought we might meet Dr
Livingstone! We got back to where we started and went back to the boat, it was
a nice walk though.
It was then time to have my Monkey 47 Gin and lovely it was
too. We had it with a peach slice in it
as that is how it was served when we first tried it. I had one with Bottle Green Elderflower Tonic and one
with Fentimans Rose Lemonade and they were both delicious.
We are staying here tonight and also tomorrow so we can have
lunch in the pub.
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| Moored at Great Haywood |
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