Travels in Narrowboat Lily Pad

RETURNING TO DEBDALE FOR THE LAST TIME My apologies for typing this at the end of March, I thought I'd finished off my blog on Lily but found to my horror the other day the last few days were m...

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THURSDAY 3RD JULY We had filled the tank from the fuel barge on Wednesday and topped up our water tank and ensured the flowers were watered too. We cast off at 8.30 with a group of & other narrow...

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SUNDAY 15TH JUNE A lovely day and we celebrated Fathers’ Day by going out for a Sunday lunch. We rarely eat a roast on a Sunday but sometimes we fancy it so we found that The Blue Mallard in p...

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TUESDAY 3RD JUNE We had returned on Monday afternoon and having experienced the uncrushed surroundings of our First Class journeys sincerely hope we can do so again at a bargain price. I hadn't r...

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 I HAD NOT REALISED I'D FAILED TO CLOSE OFF LAST YEAR'S CRUISE, SO A BRIEF (YOU MUST BE JOKING ITS IAN WRITING!) RESUME OF WHY THIS IS OUR LAST CRUISE. I'M ALSO ON A CRUSADE TO GET EVERYONE TO W...

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Well we had intended to set off earlier in April but it just didn't work out, just too many things to do & people to see. As the start of May came & we were still tied up desperation was setting ...

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Happy new year to All. I threatened I might get into blog again whilst at base and decided there were a few things to get off my chest so here we are. It has been an incredible day today, s...

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MONDAY 24TH SEPTEMBER The rain that started falling during Sunday afternoon carried on all night and all through the day. The river Soar was obviously going to go into flood and we preferred to ...

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MONDAY 17TH SEPTEMBER Bright at first but not warm and showers by 5. We pushed across to the water point at first and had a pretty awful cup of coffee before we set off around 10.30, joining a l...

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MONDAY 10TH SEPTEMBER The weather was overcast most of the day and we were in sweaters. Intermittent rain and a downpour in the evening, not great weather. We set off to Leek tunnel but decided ...

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ASpitfire Week MON-WED We were away from Lily, having left her in Aston Marina near Stone. It was an impressive place with a very good, but expensive farm shop. We had concerns that our power...

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MONDAY 27TH AUGUST Only a short blog this week as we are leaving Lily on Saturday for a trip to Chichester with a stop in London on our way back to see our friends from New Zealand who are comin...

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AUGUST 12TH TO 21ST Sam & Hannah came to stay for 3 nights and we showed them things, firstly at the Trafford Centre where we caught a film before moving into Castlefields. We enjoyed having ...

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MONDAY 6TH AUGUST and we spend some time in Manchester before heading off to Sale for overnight mooring. Little that was exciting except that whilst winding at Castlefields something got stuck i...

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MONDAY 30TH JULY Our plan after returning from our rail trip is to go through Manchester, up the Ashton Canal and onto the Peak Forest Canal and on Tuesday 7th to have Carol’s sister Annette &...

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MONDAY JULY 25TH Forgot to mention last week Ann & David whom we travelled the MSC with came for tea last Sunday. We were supposed to give them a call before we left the dock in Liverpool but co...

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We stayed moored at Burscough Bridge for the week & used public transport to do things, trying to avoid the weather. We use our bow thruster to let us reverse to/from water points. When we t...

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MONDAY 9TH JULY really quite a pleasant day and our friend Jenny from Kirby Muxloe joined us about mid day, our friend Beryl brought her as she is visiting some old friends from her school-days ...

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MONDAY 2ND JULY We returned to Liverpool Lime Street with London Midland getting back to Lily around 2pm. I quickly checked the meter for electricity & was relieved to find we were still powered...

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This lovely duck house might have been on an MP's expenses, but I doubt it MONDAY 25TH JUNE We took caffeine in Wigan first then I went into BW Wigan Office to check details of our trip into...

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MONDAY 18TH JUNE A pleasant day but not warm. We were recommended whilst taking coffee (!!) to visit Grappenhall which was just 2 miles further on from Stockton Heath. The old part of the villag...

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MONDAY 11TH and to our surprise Carol’s phone was ready for collection so we were away at 11.30 with Masie accompanying us, with me doing all the lock work and the girls nattering on a fine da...

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MONDAY TO SUNDAY I’m not going to break this down into days as we have not gone anywhere other than a trip down and up the staircase 3 locks to use the services which we did on a drizzly lunch...

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MONDAY 28TH MAY  fine warm and dry day with clouds building towards evening. I walked off to the Morrissons store to the east of the canal to get Carol’s paper and for fresh fruit before we c...

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MONDAY 21ST MAY a lovely day and we returned from our trip to Chichester at just after 2pm, the railway platform being just a couple of hundred yards from where Lily was moored. We had a slight ...

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