--- In [email protected], "Michael Askin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> We had a lady caller while we were moored at Chester - at first she
> thought we were someone else, and then started a sob story about
being
> hit by her boyfriend, and needed money to get back to Ellesmere
Port.
> She was trying it on with my Dad, but I've heard it all before, and
> got up and told her so. So just remember if you get a similar sob
> story here or elsewhere.
>
>
> We left Chester in the morning just as another boat was coming
along,
> and we shared the locks up to the long pound. We overtook a couple
of
> boats on the pound, and thankfully one of the slower boats pulled in
> before the locks. We shared them with another boat through that
first
> lock, but they were stopping at the boatyard, so we went up the Iron
> Lock on our own - as you should...
>
> We were alone all the rest of the way up the locks, and soon found
> ourselfs at the top. We stopped in Nantwich at 6pm.
>
>
>
>
> --
> Michael Askin
> http://shoestring_DOT_zapto_DOT_org/
>
We had a man on a bike tearing round in a panic telling us about his
children being on holiday with his father who had been taken into
hospital and his needing money for petrol to go to rescue them. The
problem was that he told us the same story last year. This was
somewhere south of Compton.
Sue
