Morning. Good morning.
welcome to the narrowboat experience I'm Kath, this is Annamarie
and we're on the LLangollen Canal today. Yes.
we're heading our way to Whitchurch we're not gonna stop
we're going to Whitchurch today yes so we gave ourselves 5 days to get from
Nantwich to Ellesmere
and we've gone over that quite a bit because we moored up
seven days we moored up just
outside Wrenbury for three days that wasn't in the schedule
how could you not stop here for three days it's really nice the cats have really enjoyed it
It's been good for them to get some exercise
we're now looking forward to the rest of the canal
So today is Whitchurch, tomorrow Ellesmere. No more stopping until the Aquaduct
Or else we won't make it off the Llangollen before the closures
yeah we've basically got about a month now to get to
the end and back
Munchy has got himself into this habit where he desperately wants to come out
when we start driving so he just stands at the door meowing and I think the
reason is that he can hear us talking because he's such a cat dog that
if he hears us talking all he wants to do is come out and be part of it so
we're kind of getting into this routine where we have to let him out for 10
minutes he has like a look around but the other day he walked along the gunwale
on the outside of the boat while we are moving so we don't trust
him anymore
so these three looks at the beginning we might take one each
Who is the third person?
We're just going to the first lock I can't pronounce the name so I'll put it
up here down the bottom and it's really nice to be moving again we spent a
couple of days moored up and I love a bit of a mooring up and I haven't been well
so I really liked it but there's just something about moving the boat and
seeing everything that is lovely that kind of reminds you of why you're doing
it and when you get to leap off the boat and go and open the lock and I use the
word leap very loosely it's just lovely it just reminds you of why you're doing it
obviously I can pronounce the name of that lock it was Marbury the next lock
I thought that they renamed
the locks that is meant to be Quoisley. No, there's Marbury, its on the next page.
oh we're not as far as I thought we were
we're just waiting known to go into Willeymore Lock. Funnily the second lock which I
did was empty when we got there but the first lock and the third lock - Annamarie's
locks have both been full! there's a little cafe next to this lock
it's closed today because its not busy season anymore
apparently is a lovely little cafe but there is one at Grindley Brook
that's open so maybe we will get there in time for a little lunchtime
snack we don't often snack along the canal because generally try to eat food that we
prepare at home
you've seen the weather today so I think it's worth giving it a go
i miscounted the locks
so we had the one on the page that you didn't count
yeah and then we had
three on this page this is Povey's lock which is our fourth lock then I said we
had the staircase lock Grindley Brook. Yeah but theres all the ones before it.
Grindley Brook locks are three locks then a staircase. Yeah.
I'm not surprised because I looked at the book myself
six more locks I was just congratulating myself on how awesome we were
I still think we're awesome
Like a pro!
Kath will be so happy I caught that on camera and so cross if I if she hit it
and I'd caught it so I don't think I'll be in trouble We try not to film each others
mistakes so much but I think it's important if you're coming to the
Llangollen that you understand how the water moves so I wasn't doing it to be
embarrassing
oh that's very quiet
in fact their hydraulic
and an audience in a cafe okay so I think I have to empty the bottom one
which is full
we have just finished the staircase locks and I have to admit I think the
staircase locks won I think it defeated us today it was so
clogged with leaves that we had to rope the boat up three locks
Against current
Well the current was when you cracked the paddle
and then I cracked the paddle to try to get rid of the leaves and it was not
pleasant took us about 46 minutes to get through those last three
Probably my least-favorite locks I've ever done. Ever. I'm actually quite dreading them on
the way back I think the trick is to follow another boat because the boat
following us did the locks in 30 minutes
the issue that we had was the propellor was clogged with leaves
and no amount of quick bursts of reverse was clearing - what's it called? - leaf bundle
yeah and leaf bundle. the guy on the diesel boat Mountbatten
he warned us of those locks anyway so there was a very unhelpful gentleman
there who just kept telling me to flood the locks and at one point my fender was
in between the lock gates because we'd walked the boat in and if I had flooded
the locks like he's suggested we would have sunk the boat so you really I mean
I think people try to be helpful but you really still got to use your smarts and
know that at the end of the day it's your boat so it's your rules and and I
did that I held my ground even though he kept on
yeah waiting me endeavoring to persuade that
they were unenjoyable we don't like to be negative on the narrowboat experience
but they were unenjoyable locks and then another boater came and said oh I did
these locks on Monday they were fine like
the leaves hadn't fallen in a week
we are headed to a mooring now
We are just going towards Whitchurch
We are leaving Grindley Brook
and we are going to moor up and then get something to eat
We still haven't had lunch and its about 3pm
We are a bit done with today
we found bins and water yes so we're happy about that
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