Bollington, Day 2.

The usual old things this morning. Weather even worse than previous days, todays excursion to White Nancy won't probably happen. 

We phoned our youngest son and wished him Happy Birthday, He is Twenty today.

A lull in the weather around late morning allowed us to venture down to the working boats and folk festival near Clarence Mill. A market stall selling boat art was open so we bought a painted slate heart for the boat to hang on the wall, the artist who made all the items on show had only just started sell his canal ware and we were the second person ever to have bought something,honoured.

Morris Dancers

Our new decorated slate heart.

On the way back, the boat moored up behind us had drifted out into the canal so we pulled it back in and re-pinned it, good deed for the day done.

We re-did our pins for good measure and climbed on board just as the rain started, perfect timing.

Heavy downpour

We sat for a while then gave the inside of the boat a clean while we couldn't get outside, I refilled the stern grease pump, for the first time. It has lasted five years.

Bloody boats going too fast have again sent us adrift into the canal, this time it was the festival trip boat. We shall move about a hundred yards up the canal, I can see a vacant spot and there are rings. 

The evenings have been the best part of the days over the last couple of nights so we climbed to White Nancy, and rainbow came out just as we got to the top.

Rainbow came out as we reached the top of the hill.

Panoramic view of Bollington.

White Nancy

The Boat and Folk Festival.

We woke to rain again on the roof this morning, it actually stopped long enough for Busters' walk but it rained again straight after. 

The boats batteries are very low today, We used the tumble dryer yesterday and we didn’t run the engine long enough afterwards to recharge them enough. Hopefully we can get a couple of hour charge into them later as we move along to Bollington. 

We passed Braidbar boats, they had one of their open days and the owners showing their boats were out getting them polished up. 

We moored just past the reserved mooring for Braidbars open day. Had some lunch and walked back to Chandlers to see if he had any fanbelts.

Boat floating loose.

On the approach into Bollington we passed dredgers that had finished working for the day. Mooring spots are scarce due to the underwater obstacles along the edge, so we gave up and continued through to finally moor up just before Adelphi Mill, on pins. 

Clarence Mill

Batteries topped up nicely, and ready for tonights takeaway and a movie on Film 4 at nine.

A quick search on Google for a local takeaway and Chinese seemed to be the preferred choice ‘Chopsticks’, it was only a twenty minute walk and a ten minute wait and we had our meal, on the way back we decided to detour and walk past the working boats at the folk festival, mostly everyone had gone but we had a nice chat with the chap on Gifford who was waiting for his wife to pick him up in the car. 

We soon had our feet up watching TV with our Chinese meal, lovely.