--- In [email protected], "rb999sb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "Michael Askin" <mykaskin@>
> 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
I've just read David's account and it was the same man.
ue
