Thursday, 8 March 2012

Lyme Green to Lyme View

I don't know why there should be Lyme Park, and Lyme View nearby, on one side of Macclesfield, and Lyme Green on the other, but there it is, as result of which we spent just over three hours this morning boating from one Lyme to another. It was a pretty straightforward and routine trip; we set off just after eight, yours truly steering, and arrived a bit after eleven.

On the way, Sheila had hopped off in Macc to get a paper (just the i as it happens), and we'd run a washload in the second half of the trip. Not many boats about, though we passed a couple after we'd got through Bollington, and there are numbers of hippy hutches lurking on the towpath, some of them, as just here at Lyme View/Adlington, without name, number or licence, making it hard to log them on the webpage for reporting unlicensed boats.

If BW/CRT doesn't get a grip here soon, they'll have the same kind of problem that they have on the Lee and Stort , the south end of the Oxford or the western end of the K&A. We're told that the towpath patrols are instructed to take no action if offered abuse by the boater, so if you want to be left alone by BW, just tell the staff to go forth and multiply.

/XD

The weather has been typically early spring, a mixture of sunny spells, clouds and a cold wind when the sun's not shining.

We've spent the afternoon doing things like updating an Ocado order that we're having delivered on Saturday afternoon, stocking up the Kindle with extra books and attempting to get past a tricky level of Angry Birds on the Galaxy Europa.

Tomorrow, a lazy start and a twenty minute amble into Higher Poynton, there to meet up with various friends, not least Peter and Susan Mason.

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