History

After several holidays in hire boats, we were keen to take the next step and buy a boat of our own. We thought it would be many years before we could afford it, perhaps by way of a timeshare first. However in 2017 my mother Eileen Secker sadly died at the age of 89. Her legacy enabled us to think about getting our dream boat straight away, and after flirting with the idea of a new build we decided to find a second-hand one which suited us, and where someone more experienced had made sensible choices. Eventually we found the Silver Kroner, bought her and renamed her in honour of Eileen, who would have very much enjoyed the joke embodied in the name.

Sunday, 23 August 2020

Quiet Sunday

 

Sunday 19th July 2020

Today we decided to do something we have never done on the boat before, and go ... nowhere.

When you are on a hire boat, of course, and paying by the day, not making progress seems a waste, but now that we have our own boat there is less pressure to keep on the move. We were in a comfortable spot, with good walking handy for the dogs, so we resolved to stay put. We ran the engine for a couple of hours, to heat water for showers, and to keep the batteries happy.

Before lunch I went for a run along the towpath, 4.5 miles all told. It was a bit uneven at first, though nothing like as bad as the run I did last year on the Middlewich branch, and after a mile or so I reached very well surfaced ground – the beginning of the towpath which runs all the way through Altrincham and Sale, and which is perfect for running on.

We had lunch, then took the dogs down into Dunham Massey for a good long walk. It was pretty busy, though with very large ground it was easy to keep our distance. We walked round the off-lead area to give the dogs a run, then put them on the leads to explore the other areas of the park. There were deer in several places – we didn’t go close with the dogs, but they were very tame. There was a strange statue on a pillar, we are still not sure if it is meant to be an odd looking lion or a dog.


Deer in Dunham Massey park


Lion or dog?
 

We came back past the Bollin Mill, and had a quiet afternoon before dinner of bacon and eggs. In the evening I went out with the Labradors to give them a short walk, but it turned into a much longer exploration of one of the paths we had seen during the afternoon. All in all a good restful day.

TODAY: 0:00 HOURS. 0 MILES. 0 LOCKS.

Voyage: 9:30 HOURS. 12.8 MILES. 0 LOCKS.

 

 

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