Chirk to Wrenbury Tuesday - Tuesday, 17 locks, 4 lift bridges, 28 miles

Firstly sorry for the lack of posts this last week.

I have no excuses, other than there was not much new to share as we are travelling back down the Llanngollen and Internet has been a bit hit and miss - neither of which are very good excuses :-).

We have had a real mixed bag of weather some sun, some rain and a bit of wind, but overall not too bad for the middle of November.

Rodney has entered into the spirit of Movember!

I have spent two days shopping, I met Carol in Birmingham on Thursday and the went into Manchester with Liz on Saturday, thanks to both ladies for lovely days.  Whilst I shopped and lunched in Manchester (the bottle of Presseco went down very nicely!), Rod and Mike chopped wood so we are now fully stocked up with wood to keep the old log burner going.

As we have headed back the canal has become significantly quieter, lots of people have gone into marinas or onto designated winter moorings.  Yesterday the sun was shining but even so we only passed 4 boats all day, still no queuing for locks:-).

On the sunny days the canals are looking beautiful with all of the different coloured leaves.

We are now back at Wrenbury which is good news as we can revisit Nantwich and the fish mongers as the last of the seabass went this week.  I know red cabbage doesn't really go, but it had to be used up, no room in the freezer compartment!!  Oh and we are also next to the Dusty Miller pub, which we visited last night, as we continue to support local businesses!!!

George remains as interested as ever in the locks.

We should be on the Middlewich branch of the Shropshire union by the weekend, which will be new territory for us, so I will have a bit more to share.  

Today and tomorrow are work days, but I need a couple of days to recover from the shock of discovering that Rod does know what a lock handle is for :-)).

I also discovered that I really should take the time to measure a route properly before going for a run at 4:00.  I thought it only looked like about 4 miles on the map, turned out to be more like 6.75, but one thing is for sure, I can run much faster when on a country lane and it is getting dark!! Won't be doing that again :-).