Mike Stevens wrote: > As you'll know if you've been following my trio reports, our boating > this summer has been seriously disrupted by one of our cats going > walkabout rather too often. Now we've been hit by another delay, in > that Wendy's chest infection, which she's been struggling with for a > few weeks flared up seriously the other evening, meaning we lost > another day's boating while she was sorting out some treatment for > it. Perversely the wandering cat came back at about 08:00 that day!. > Wendy's responding well to the medication she's been prescribed, so > we're hoping to start boating again on Friday. > It has to be Friday because I'm in London for a couple of days, the giving > a talk to the Macclesfield Canal Society on Thursday evening. > > But I've got a week to get from where the boat is now, at Marple, to > Ellesmere Port, where I'm due to give another talk at the Boat Museum. > Looking at possible schedules, just about the only possible way of > meeting the deadline would be to put in what is (by our standards) a > marathon day on Friday and get from Marple to Manchester. Ducie > Street would do, Castlefield would be too much to hope for. This > involves something like 10 hours' boating with 34 locks. > > Is anybody in that part of the system willing and able to come and be > extra crew for us on Friday?
<Paging Martin Clark> <Paging Martin Clark> Martin and me last did a Castlefield to Marple in July 2007 - 11.25 hours. Started at 07:15 and with an hours waterstop we still in the Ring O' Bells before 20:00 :-) -- Neil Arlidge - NB Earnest - Shannon Reg 7410 Read about the start of our Irish travels at: http://www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk/Tour_07/April_07/index.html Visit this site and help save our waterways from the DEFRA cuts http://www.saveourwaterways.org.uk/
