We could hardly have asked for anything better. - the best weather so far this year, a beautiful canal, and an interesting journey.
Yesterday we mentioned the sheep. We had noticed last night that there was one on its back with its legs in the air, very dead we thought. This morning we saw that its legs were moving. Fortunately there were some men nearby working on a hedge. Denise went off to talk to them. They knew the farmer and promised to phone him. It seems that once sheep get stuck on their backs they can't get up again unaided.
We then moved on to Great Haywood to buy a paper and stock up at the canal-side farm shop where we bought a chicken pie, some veg, and strawberries & cream and a delicious cheese loaf (as recommended to us by Dot & Derek on Gypsy Rover), all local produce.
After eating lunch at Great Haywood we travelled on up the Trent & Mersey through delightful scenary and are now moored near Burston, a very attractive small village just south of Stone.
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Mike and Denise took early retirement in 2005 after working for 30 years in IT. We bought Densie in 2006 with the intention of taking long trips each year and eventually to visit all of the accessible canal system. This blog will describe our travels.
