A delayed start today due to a broken electric swing bridge which ordinarily we would have operated ourselves; until it’s fixed, CRT open it once a day at 2pm.  We used the down time to walk the mile or so to the local Co-Op and top up food supplies (no soup after counting 10 tins on board and no sweetcorn either as we have a similar number of those too!)

The narrowboats all lined up ready for 2pm, we went first and greeted the boats on the other side of the bridge with a smug smile.  We left the Leeds and Liverpool, onto the Bridgewater canal.

We’re very much in a ‘ships routine’, morning and afternoon smoko (cake breaks to those not in the know), what’s the next bridge number, where is the next lock, do I get off front or back….oh and when will the new tank monitor  change to half full!