Movement

We have a hole in our cratch cover.  Very annoying, but it's actually undoing stitching not a tear.  I had called the maker but they were not going to be coming to Great Haywood for weeks.  So we have come away with it.

I got the name of "Cratch Cover and Canopies" from the nice people at Swanley and called them.  Today we unplucked the cratch cover, picked off the spiders and bird poo, folded it as best we could and took it in the car back to Nantwich Marina where this company are based.  Well Reader what fabulous people and they fixed it while we waited.  Bish bash bosh.  I had thought while it was in there David and I could go food shopping in Nantwich but no seconds later we were on our way.

I can't recommend them highly enough.

So now we popped into the chandlery there and brought a new nose fender as WaL's is old, bashed, falling apart and held on with one of Joe's old bootlaces.  

Then food shopping, whizz whizz and back to WaL to stow it all away in the fridge.

Then big treat of the day, visiting Marbury and The Swan pub.  So we have come here as part of David's Big Birthday celebrations.  There are lovely long moorings here but taking advice from other boaters about the numbers of Horseflies around on these meadow moorings, we decided to dodge that and pass Marbury by.

The food is wonderful here, the service, the garden all lovely.

The walls of the pub are covered with many pictures that I liked, here are a few.  

The first reminds me of Wimbledon.

Walking around the village after lunch we came by the church, if you go behind it there is a bench.

We sat.

Looking over this small lake, there's David on the bench, and the bench is on a grave or vault.  I hope the occupants don't mind.

Back to Wrenbury and we are cruising tomorrow!

Beaut sky tonight.