Love is all around me...

Well, we're back. Further to the brief summary of our itinerary in the previous post, from Castlefield Basin in Manchester we went along the Bridgewater Canal to Preston Brook; then Trent and Mersey to Middlewich; back down to Anderton; the Anderton Lift down onto the Weaver; almost to Winsford; then back to Jalsea Marine whence we started two weeks before.

Work has been a shock to the system: when I get some time at home I'll upload a few photographs and make a more interesting (I hope) account of our trip.

Waiting on the hall floor when we got home was Canal Boat magazine - must have just missed it when we went boating. The first read has to be Mortimer Bones - very funny, all the way to the end. Another blogger following in Bones's and Andrew Denny's footsteps (20 Questions) - oh, and Sarah's too (Warrior's engine rebuild) - is Adam Porter. He boat tested 4Evermoore, and wrote up his review for the mag. Also in Canal Boat I see that the IWA is using one of Andrew Denny's photos for their ad (and crediting it, naturally).

One slightly surreal moment on our trip was when we moored outside a pub on the Leeds and Liverpool canal for the night. It was a Thursday, therefore it was Folk Club night. We got involved in a way that would have greatly embarrassed our children, had they been with us: more on that later. One member of the group sang the title of this post, by Wet Wet Wet, of course. And that was the theme of our holiday.