We should have been full of beans by the morning, I fell asleep at 8pm and Toby wasn’t long after at 9pm, we both struggled getting up at 7.30!  It wasn’t long before the flight of seven locks hit us, we’re back to Toby steering and my brute force opening the locks – which suits me just fine.  A little bit of drama at Chorley with a moored boat that had come away from it’s mooring and was diagonally across the canal, there was quite an audience as a car boot sale was taking place on the other side of the canal.  Toby did a great job pushing it along side and I got on board and took a rope to the canal side and pulled it in.

We stopped off at Fredericks Ice Cream Parlour for lunch and had some quiche followed by the most delicious ice cream.  Toby went for a rocky road (chocolate, thunder and lightning and toffee fudge icecream), and I went for a hot fudge (rum and raisin, toffee fudge and rochelle icecream)

We moored up nice and early in a lovely spot overlooking the golf course, let’s hope we don’t get any stray balls!  Toby did the 50 hour engine service and changed the oil and filters.  A light dinner and we’re both in our PJs ready for bake off, and an early night for the 21 locks at Wigan