Visits to Hankelow Golf Club and Nantwich

Tuesday 27^th June

Pathway through the woods

I dare you to come in here!

Brookfield Golf Club

Kev on the Driving Range

We are off to Hankelow this morning, a village not far from Audlem.  It was raining when we got up, but eased off so we set off along the village and onto the footpath that goes through a wooded bit and then onto lanes.  We went past a stile and there was cow right by the stile, he seemed to be saying "I dare you to come in here", thankfully we didn't have to go that way! 

Getting ready to wack the ball

After a mile or so, we came to Hankelow and walked along the road to Brookfield Golf Club.  We went up to the club house and collected a couple of tokens then went back to the driving range and got a basket of balls and proceeded to hit them down the driving range.  We now have our own clubs as Kev bought me a left handed one for Christmas and Jane’s dad gave Kev a couple.  It was the maiden voyage for my club and I got on with it okay.  We had a good time wacking the balls and then we went up to the clubhouse for some lunch.

And there it goes!

It is a really nice place and we had a lovely ploughmans and then I had chocolate roulade and yummy it was too.  We then had another basket of balls each after lunch and walked the road back to Audlem.  We stopped off to see Sheila and Tony, Malc’s parent and their lovely little dog Brock, who is not so little now.  He is a Dandy Dinmont Terrier and very sweet, he gave us a lovely greeting.  

Cute Little Brock

Unfortunately Sheila was out, but hopefully we will catch up with her before we move on, so we had a cup of tea and a chat with Tony and Brock.  Our friends John and Sharon with Smuggler the dog who we look after are on their way to Tattenhall marina to take their boat out of the boat to black the bottom and were moored in Audlem.

Smugs flat out!

We stopped by their boat to see them.  In the evening they came up to our boat and we had a lovely evening chatting and sampling gin.  John and Sharon recently went to Adnams in South Wold and made their own gin, so we tried that and very nice they were too.  John called his Musician’s Friend and it was spicy and Sharon called hers Agin agrain which was more fruity.  We also tried a couple of others we had as well.  Smugs just made his  self at home and flaked out on the dinette and so a good time was had by all!

Wednesday 28^th June

Today we are off to Nantwich by bus.  John and Sharon are moving on today and stopping at Nantwich so we will meet up with them for coffee.

We walked up to the Church and got the bus.  It is about a half hour bus ride.  Unfortunately today it was raining but not too hard.  We had a walk around.  There is a good butchers called Welch and they also have a café which is olde worlde, so we went there and then found out that on a Wednesday the café shuts at 12 noon and it was after that and the butchers shut at 1pm and they had already started packing most things away even though it was only 12.30pm, so we walked around and found another butchers and got a few things in there.

John and Sharon in Nantwich

Nantwich

We then found a café in the town which is in a book shop and we met John and Sharon there and we had a coffee and a Toastie. We then had a walk around the shops but unfortunately it was raining quite hard.  John and Sharon then went back to their boat as they were moving on a bit further along the canal and we got the bus back to Audlem.

Our friend Dave dropped by for a cup of tea and a slice of Ginger Cake which I always make especially for him when we are in Audlem.  It was nice to see him and have a chat.  We will catch up with him and Anthea again at the weekend as we are staying until Monday.

Tomorrow morning we are moving down the locks a bit further and then walking up the canal to the marina where there is a really nice café, so hopefully it will be dry.