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5 hours to Stone

Long horned cattle

First job in the morning was to pop round to the Great Haywood Farm Shop. We always stop here when we are passing through as they sell good pies, bread, local cheese, and many other delights. Also visited the chandlery at Anglo Welsh. Its mainly a hire boat centre but it as they are an Isuzu dealer its useful for bits and pieces. This time we needed spare fanbelts as we have had both replaced in the past year.

On the move again by 10:15. Today the weather was a great improvement on yesterday, blue skies although somewhat cool and breezy. Our journey took us up the Trent valley through isolated but attractive countryside to Weston on Trent (the one in Staffs) where we stopped for lunch. Just a quick stop as we knew that it would take us about 3 hours to get to our planned mooring at Stone.

After Weston the views and rural landscape continued much the same. The main railway runs alongside the canal for much of the stretch as does the A51, both taking advantage of the gentle rising slope of the Trent valley. Neither spoilt the overall quiet of this pleasant canal. We eventually reached Stone on time at 16:00.

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Setting off on our summer trip

After 6 weeks at home we are out again. Our plan is to head north up the Trent & Mersey Canal and take the Anderton Boat Lift down to the River Weaver where we will spend a few days. After then - who knows?

We left our marina at 9:15, passed through Armitage (where Armitage-Shanks comes from!) and Rugeley. The weather turned for the worse with heavy rain and strong wind. So we stopped a couple of hours for lunch, setting off again when the weather cleared at 2:00. We have moored up at Great Heywood junction.