Audlem (between Locks 2 and 3) to Audlem (below Shroppie Fly Pub) - Shropshire Union Canal

 Tuesday 15^th to Thursday 17^th September

We stayed between locks 2and 3 of the Audlem flight, Tuesday was extremely hot so we didn’t do much.  Kev walked up to the top lock to the stall at the house there and got us ice creams and a freshly baked loaf of bread.  Our friend Jane started to walk up the flight with little Harry to see us but the heat was too much for Harry so Kev walked down and met them and carried Harry back to his house then Kev walked back up to the boat.  Kev needed to sit in the shade after all that walking! Once Harry had a rest he was back to his lively self thank goodness.

  
                                                          

Wednesday we did a few jobs and went for a walk in the afternoon, it was cooler than Tuesday, much more pleasant.  We went and got another ice cream, another loaf of bread as it was so nice and some freshly picked tomatoes.

Today (Thursday) we are on the move down 11 locks and hopefully will be able to moor near the Shroppie Fly pub and Audlem village.

  

We set off just after 8am, it was a bright morning and not too warm or cold, just right.

Lock No. 3 was not far from us so I went and set the lock as a boat had gone in front of us so I had to fill up the lock.

These locks empty quite quickly so soon we were on to the next one.

  
A few boats started to come up the locks so that always helps.

We worked our way down the locks ticking them off as we went going through locks 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11.

Lock 12 is a little further away and there are moorings between locks 11 and 12 so I walked along the towpath and in the moorings was our friend Martyn, he was doing some maintenance on his engine so I called out Good Morning and we had a chat, it was nice to see him again. The lock was in our favour so I opened the gate and Kev brought the boat in.

      

The boat went down and I opened the gates.  Nothing was coming the other way so once Kev was out I closed the gates.

There are some more moorings after this lock but we decided to go through one more lock and more up below there as the moorings above the lock are under trees and the ones below are in the sunshine.

This lock is right by the Shroppie Fly pub.  The lock was in our favour so I just had to top it up as it was leaking a bit so I could open the gates. A boat came behind us so the chap helped me with the gate

    

We moored up just after the lock in the visitor moorings.

We are staying here for the weekend now and will set our shop up tomorrow and over the weekend and hopefully make a few sales. We are off to see our friends Sheila and Tony this afternoon and tomorrow evening we are out for a meal at the pub in the village, The Lord Combermere with Jane, Malcolm, Dave and Anthea so looking forward to that.

Then next Tuesday Harry is coming to stay with us for a few days so that will be great as we love having him to stay, he is such a little character, full of beans but very loving too. We will chug off then for a few days but it will be nice to spend this weekend in Audlem as it is a lovely village and area.

 

Moored below the Shroppie Fly