Morning! Good morning! What a morning! It's beautiful this morning. Hat is on, sun is out
and we're sat here waiting to go. If you can hear panting in the background it's not
Shaun, it's Dillon just sat down here. He's a bit warm. So we're heading out of Liverpool today.
We've got to call at Litherland to empty the toilet, fill up with water, and
Shaun's got to grab some grub from Tesco - yes - on the way too. Today we're heading
back to Melling where we're gonna stay overnight tonight. I hope it stays like
this all day. It better do! Are you ready? Yeah! off we go. See you in a bit.
So, Dillon's first time in the water!
The thing about barbed wire is you never know whether it's keeping
people in or keeping people out?
We're back in Melling. We've been staying here overnight. Shaun's just busy putting
the pram covers down. We're heading that way this morning, back towards... well
through Maghull to start with, and we're heading for Bridge 20, it's Coxhead's Bridge.
You might remember us coming the other way few days ago. Well, we're going
back that way. We've got to be there for 12 o'clock today.
That's when they open the bridge manually to let the boats through and
then they're closing it off again till Friday. So we don't want to be stuck
around, so we've got to try and get there... We should do for about 11 o'clock this
morning, fingers crossed, and we'll see you there!
It's just before lunchtime and we are at Bridge 20 on the Leeds & Liverpool
Canal going... that way! (Laughing) East! This is the bridge where they had all the problems.
The gubbins was vandalised, the gubbins that works the thingamabob. If you just look
over my left shoulder you can probably see the guys in orange...
yeah. workman's gear, contractors. So it's going to be closed for a while, and what
they're doing is on Mondays and Fridays they manually open the bridge at midday at
12 noon which is... invisible watch, two minutes to twelve. So you can see the
boats queuing up. We're all going to go one way first, and then once I think there's
about half a dozen boats going east. Once we've gone through, then the boats going
west towards Liverpool will come through and then the bridge is locked again and
you can't get back through until Friday. So you're a bit stuck if you've
got like the Liverpool Link booked and you miss this today... Yeah, so there you go!
We're off for a sandwich and a doughnut then we're going to go through the
bridge and we'll see you later!
It's my favorite kind of swingbridge... Disused!
(Laughing)
Sidenote... Doughnut!
So we've been cruising for about three and a bit hours. We started in Melling
this morning. We've come through Maghull, past Bridge 20 which Shaun on
Twitter called 'Cock Heads Bridge' Coxhead's Bridge. It was close!
There was a few boats waiting to get through that, and sun is still shining
and here we are in Haskayne. Lasagna is in the oven and it's been a good day hasn't it?
It has, it's been a beautiful day. It's been a nice day. Just a little tip if you're going
through Maghull, there's four swing bridges. If you're going west just be careful that you
don't hit that first swing bridge in rush hour or like school run. We did. Shaun did!
and THEY DO NOT LIKE IT! (laughing) Pipping their horns at me and everything, and then
further along there's some that have got some like timers on them anyway haven't they?
Yeah, they have yeah. You can't use them till 9:30. After 9:30 and then not after two until I
think it's six o'clock. Yeah, so just be careful of those. Lots of swing bridges
on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal anyway, and it's weird how they're all different
isn't it? Every single one's different. You need both keys on some, one key on the other.
And the other key on the other. It's like you got like manual ones and some
electric ones, and even like the electric ones are different, aren't they? Some of them
are all electric, some of them are half electric, and you push it yourself.
Well there was that one where I put the British Waterways key in, turned it, the
barriers came down and I'm stood there waiting for the bridge to move, then I
looked down and there's an arm I had to push. (laughing)
I had to open it myself!
I hope it stays like this. I hope it does.
I know we need rain. It can rain at night and then like this again today
And we're back on the Rufford Branch. Shaun's just getting the top two locks ready,
and guess who managed the bridge in one turn?
(Sighs) Oooh, I say! Here we are - Here we are! So we are back at the start of the Rufford Branch.
It's been a long day, hasn't it? Hell of a long day, yeah. We started in Haskayne, near the Ship this
morning and we stopped off... We went past Scarisbrick Marina. We stopped off at
Heaton's Bridge for some lunch - we did - and the guys had to come and do a bit of
snagging because the hot water wasn't working. It wasn't hot! So they've come
out and fixed that. We had a bit of lunch and chat a few cups of tea and we
carried on from there. Called off at Burscough this afternoon. Lovely fish
and chips. The WORST fish and chips you've ever had! The chips were orange, the fish
was orange, the mushy peas were orange. The fish didn't taste like fish. I don't know
what it is we stopped where the services are to empty the toilet and get some more water.
There was a funny smell there.There was a very... herbal smell (laughing) Yeah bit of marijuana.
So I don't know if it's always like that down there, but it was errr, hmm!
Yeah, interesting. A few minutes (laughing). A few minutes cruising from there and we were
back onto the Rufford which is where we are now. The sun is still out, it's been a
lovely day, hasn't it? It has, it's been gorgeous. We're going to take a couple of
days off. It's been a bit of a manic few weeks for us - Yeah, it has - My feet and legs
are still hurting from the marathon. They're killing me! And, yeah, I'm still trying to
settle down, so we're going to take a couple of days off filming and we're
going to go up the Rufford Branch towards Tarleton at lock 8, ready to do the
Ribble Link - yeah - So the next vlog you see won't be the Rufford, it will be the
Ribble Link. We'll do the Rufford on the way back - yeah - Is that all right with you?
Aww, ta! (laughing). Right, we're off 'cos we're hungry and we've not had anything to eat since
about three o'clock this afternoon so we're going to go get some grub.
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...and fill it with water (Shaun starts coughing)
Sorry!
Sun's out and... (sighs)
He enjoys it anyway... Rubber gloves and all that!
Pay attention!
We had the worst fish and chips you've ever seen! Ever tasted. Yeah (laughing)
We're actually going to take a little break. Sorry, I'm just wondering about Dillon he's
wandering the tripod - He's wondering around, panting. If it's starts wobbling it's Dillon.
(Shaun laughing) What?
We will see you later. Take care, bye-bye. See you later bye (Duck noises and laughing)
And we will... Are you ready? Shut up! You ready? Yeah. And we will see you later...
And we will see you later (laughing)
Hurry up 'cos this bloke's coming! Alright.
And we will see you later!
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