Hi everyone who is still reading this, our journey started this morning nice and bright, we left our last night mooring still on the Trent and Mersey and cruised past a lovely little village called Swarkestone, we had a few locks to negotiate and on Swakestone lock Denise was offered help by a man caled Bob who informed us that he was a volunteer lock keeper, he proceeded to help Denise and whilst talking to Bob he hinted that most people tipped him which we felt obliged to do.
We then proceeded on to Stenson lock and just passed this we moored up, and lucky for us the heavens opened and persintley rained, so we had some lunch, after the rain stopped we went to pay a visit to the adjacent chandlery, unfortunalty the chanderly was closed for lunch but luckily the pub "The Bubble" was open so we decided to have an afternoon drink, must say it was a very nice pub and anyone up this way should pay it a visit, there is also a small hotel attached.After a few beers we paid a visit to the chanderly with the purpose of buying a fender as I have lost one already in some lock, must say we were served by the most miserable server, we were going to purchase a few more bits and bobs but because of her attitude we decided against it. A little bit of trivia about Stenson is the lock is the 2nd deepest on the T&M canal a depth of 12ft 4in also the bubble pub is named after the little weir which runs a long the length of the lock and then energies in the canal hence the name the " Bubble".
We were going to eat in the pub tonight but when we got back to the boat we decided against it, as we already put out food for this evenings meal.Newson the cats is that Firkin still not settle in, and preferring to stay in her cat crate, cooking a bit better.
Speak to you tomorrow.
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