Hello, good morning. It is the crack of dawn probably about
half past eight and we are setting off on our quest to exit the Llangollen.
The plan for today is to go through a bunch of lift bridges of which Anna's
already gone to lift up so I better get going.
Such lovely weather today I think it's gonna be
around 20 degrees at the hottest. We had breakfast outside with the cats
today which they quite enjoyed. They didn't eat outside we ate outside
while they played. They've now gone to bed.
And let's see how far we get today.
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So Kath's got out of having to lower that
um... lift bridge because there's three boats
and a gentlemen (I just I let him go across our Stern) and he jumped over and
took her place and she jumped back on the boat. So that was quite good.
Some people would actually just let you stay there for the three boats,
so that's quite nice.
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The great thing about the Llangollen canal is they're actually quite a lot of
moorings from CRT quite a lot of rings and the moorings are 48 hours or 72- I
think at Ellesmere, wasn't it? It's actually really convenient I think.
Yeah, and it's good it keeps the
traffic moving. Yeah. Mind you we do see a lot of boats moored
a meter away from the 48 hour sign... which is fair enough.
Settle a debate - flowers on roofs? Yes or no? Comment below.
I won't tell you who on which side of the argument. And here's the other thing I was
thinking the other day fake flowers or roofs?
You could just hose them down. People do it. Do they? Yeah.
I think they were fake.
So we have three more lift bridges and then we are on to the Grindley Brook
locks. We are hoping to take a little lunch break in between the swing bridges
and the locks and then were also we are hoping to catch up with Annette and
Brian who gave us this lovely windlass holder.
So one boats just left and I'm gonna jump across our boat because I need to
be on that side of the lift bridge to be able to operate it.
We are just coming up to the Whitchurch Arm, which is again another arm we promise to
take you down which we're not going to. We will tag over to minimalist again.
So we have just stopped at the Grindley Brook moorings just before the water and
the bins to meet up with Brian and Annette.
You might remember them from the episode where Brian made me cry because Brian
gave me his windlass and his windlass holder which I love but look what
happened today. A shiny new one and the new holder I love it thank you Brian
and Annette- you are awesome!
And we are off again to the Grindley Brook Lock you might remember them from
autumn when they beat us. We are really really hoping to
beat them today.
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Okay, how can you not beat through some of these tunnels?
We have made it three locks further than we had hoped we would so we are now
three locks- six locks of the Grindley Brook locks and
then three locks on from that if you are playing a lot at home. Nine locks my
first nine locks of the year. Oh congratulations.
As you know I did two- already by myself so I will always have two more locks than Kath.
Unless I push her in. And then do some locks. Why would you need to push me
in to do the locks.
We think the next time we go through some locks we're going to practice
getting on and off the boat so stay tuned for that. You know, pretend
we are single handers. We have thoroughly enjoyed cruising today and taking you
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And we will see you again soon when we
continue our journey off the Llangollen canal.
I thought you were going to say "We'll see you again soon
on the Narrowboat Experience. And I was going to say it at the same time.
On the narrowboat experience.
Well now you're just being silly
What would your dad say?
Stop that silliness. Stop that silliness.