Showing posts with label Lyme Green. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lyme Green. Show all posts
Thursday, 17 August 2017

Flexible planning again

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It rained hard overnight and was still quite grey and mizzly as we were eating breakfast. We’d planned to take a trip into Macclesfield by b...
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Wednesday, 16 August 2017

Up Bosley and on to Lyme Green

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We actually slept in a little this morning and didn't get boating until nearly half seven. Nonetheless, we were still the first boat int...
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Friday, 9 September 2016

Back we go

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The plan is to head back to Mercia by the usual route, thereby completing the Four Counties ring we started in July. We made a lazy start t...
Wednesday, 24 August 2016

Long day to Lyme Green

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By our standards, we did a lot of boating today, especially as Sheila's bruised ribs, though recovering, still limit her ability to wor...
Monday, 25 April 2016

Off we go again

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It hardly needs saying, but we had another excellent night in the Boar's Head last night with Ian and Sharon. Turning up at half six, w...
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Friday, 15 April 2016

How to tire your dog

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This is the result of a hard day's boating: Go away, I'm tired! Most of the day went entirely to plan. Sheila got us away at half ...
Thursday, 17 September 2015

Embarrassing start, better finish

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The plan today was an early start as we wanted to get to Lyme Green in time to meet Sheila's brother and sister-in-law for lunch in Sut...
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Thursday, 20 August 2015

Keeping busy at Lyme Green

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I should have mentioned a couple of other things yesterday but forgot, distracted by recounting our journey up Bosley. The first of these i...
Wednesday, 19 August 2015

A late move and an early start

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We've never had any problems at Buglawton, but neither is it popular as a mooring spot, so when we saw some teenage boys hanging about ...
Tuesday, 9 September 2014

And off we go

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We'd decided to come right on to Lyme Green today, a long day's boating by our standards, so got up in good time. The water tank was...
Friday, 8 August 2014

It's all my fault

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Situation normal then. That will teach me to make obvious jokes as the tailpiece to a blog post. It all started so well, Sheila making a qui...
Tuesday, 10 September 2013

Heading for home and feeling cold

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Last evening, another excellent meal and great company made a fitting end to the weekend for us. We managed a seven o’clock start today, on...
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Wednesday, 26 September 2012

Last day at Lyme Green

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The weather has finally started to moderate, and we've taken advantage of that fact to get some serious retail therapy in. This morning ...
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Tuesday, 25 September 2012

Wet again

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A bit of an understatement, that title; the weather has been so severe that they've closed the Trent and Mersey between Middlewich and P...
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Monday, 24 September 2012

Change of plan

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We had intended to go into Macclesfield today, to bank some cheques and do a bit of shopping, and then move on tomorrow. But the weather is ...
Sunday, 23 September 2012

Busy busy

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For some reason it was really hard to get up and get going this morning, but I managed to surface at half six to make first thing tea and li...
Saturday, 1 September 2012

Shopping as recuperation

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After persuading us that Autumn was here already, the weather has reverted to Summer, which made for a very pleasant recovery day. First thi...
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Friday, 31 August 2012

Steadily up Bosley

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This morning was much better weatherwise, so we made an eight o'clock start on getting up Bosley Locks. Sheila and Graeme lockwheeled, s...
Saturday, 7 April 2012

Quiet day at Lyme Green

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We had a bit of a lie-in this morning (better than a bit of a lion, anyway, thank you, spill chucker!) then gently ambled about before walki...
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Friday, 6 April 2012

Chugging down the Macc

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It was back into cruising mode today, with Sheila making a brisk start before breakfast. I'd got myself sorted out before we got to Boll...