Broken leg

What a few days we have had. Got up Sat jumped a bus then walked to my friends who let us borrow her car to go and get our car from Nantwich. All went welland we called into crewe to have another go at putting contact lenses in. That went well but just couldn't see out of them ! Anyway Kal and I went to meet Matthews, my son who plays footy for crewe alex, girlfriend from the station and Tim took the car back. After thematch I noticed a couple of strange numbers on my phone and one from my other sons, jonathan, girlfriend. After trying to get hold of her she eventually called back only to tell me that he had broken his lower leg. Double open fracture!
That drive home was the longest drive.
Spent the last 4 days at the hossie. He had op on sunday to have a titanium rod hammered down theinside of his tibia/ shin bone. He has no plaster cast or bandage, its crazy and tgey had him up next day. He is traumatised. I am emotionally drained. Will keep everyone posted...

getting back to crewe

Well having reached runcorn were now trying to get to crewe for an appointment and to go back to nantwich to pick the car up which we want to leave in runcorn ready for our caravan rallies. Well its a pain let me say and the expense is rediculous. Decided to borrow a friends car so just a bus joyrney to widnes to pick that up. Here we go !

anderton to preston brook

Got up late for us today..9am workmen started to remove stoppage ahead of us so we took the girls(dogs) for a walk before preparing to move on. Left Anderton around 1.30 and had a lovely cruise up to preston brook and managed to time arrival at the tunnels perfectly... It was nice to see familiar places again..

Church minchull to Marbury park

Well what an eventfully day it has been. Left this morning around 9.30 am, what a lovely day. Really enjoying the cruise after the winter and so glad were able to just go anywhere. Our aim was just past Middlewich today so off we headed.
Decided not to stop for lunch but rather have it on the go.
Can't remember what time we got to Middlewich but in Big Lock we were stuck.....it wouldn't fully empty, after filling and emptying again a couple of times and of course checking all the paddles we ended up ringing BW who advised someone would be around in about 20 mins. After 10. Mins and a drink we decided to have one more go and it worked, thank goodness!!! Had visions of us been held up for a day or so..anyway off we went, the sun shone beautifully, we decided to get further on.....no..... Marbury Park. Stop lock, work not yet finished...aaarrrrggghh moored up and here till at least Friday...good job were not in a rush..

Nantwich to Liverpool...here we go

Well yesterday was a big laundry day. Everything got washed ready for our cruising year. This morning we filled with fuel and water. Did some foid shopping and withdrew enough cash to get us through the rest of the month without having to worry about cash machines.
We left Nantwich around 3pm today and sauntered along. We have moored at Church Minchull and after taking the dogs for a look around are now settled down with wonderfull views to greet us in the morning .

On the move....

Well, tomorrow is the day. We're off on our travels again, all washing,spring clean! Done. All appointments, acupuncture,glasses, done...
Can't wait to get moving now.
Heading to Liverpool for 11th April for 2 weeks stay in the dock, with the company of our good friends Dot & Colin on their boat Ascot.
And after that, who knows...well for us the trip to Liverpool will have been far too fast so we will probably spend a lot longer heading back. certainly stopping a week here and there when we have places to discover...
Kal, our 15 yr old who lives aboard as a home schooled teenager is now wanting his own space....a boat....that sounds really good and would give him his very own space to retreat to when he's had enough of us and vice versa but not sure I would want him sleeping on it. One problem, no money to buy a boat!! Ha So if you know anybody who has a boat that they want to relieve themselves of that will go to a caring home for a very good reason at a price equivalent to £0.00 or as near as damn it please get in touch lois2626@hotmail.co.uk
I don't mean to sound cheaky but sometimes there are boats hanging around that people just want someone else to take the responsibility of, we're all together 24/7 and we really do feel that bit of space would be such an asset.
Anyway roll on tomorrow and if you see us don't forget to waive ........

feeling on edge

Well it has to be time to move on now. Winter seems to be over and I am getting very on edge, need to get moving so we think Tuesday is our last day here and then were heading for Liverpool....can't wait ......