A dozy day at Nantwich

We'd planned to do a lot of restocking here at Nantwich, visiting the Morrisons at least once, but realised a) that the access to the Tesco at Middlewich (where we'll be the day after tomorrow) will be easier and b) we could get everything we needed before then from the shops in the centre, particularly those in Pepper Street. Accordingly, we've visited Clewlow's the butcher, Chatwins the baker and the greengrocer. In addition, we called at Home Bargains in Beam Street for a couple of canned goods.

Home Bargains claims to be a really cheap shop, but it's not as cheap as you might think, except perhaps by Nantwich standards. No matter, they supplied a few cans of chopped tomatoes at a reasonable price, though the corned beef was not such a bargain.

The weather has been much better than forecast, a bit cool and breezy in the middle of the day, but quite a scorcher just now. After loafing on the bow for most of the afternoon, we've just taken a walk along the embankment to the end of what was the Birmingham and Liverpool  Junction Canal (not that it ever actually reached either of those places), where there's the basin at the terminus of the old Chester Canal.

Lots of boats around, but just a steady traffic. Tomorrow we'll head off again, through Barbridge to the moorings at Blackberry Wood on the Middlewich arm. This way, Sheila has to negotiate the Barbridge Junction in this boat for the first time, whilst to my lot falls the one at the other end, complicated as it is by the presence of the Middlewich hire yard and Kings Lock.

What larks, Pip!