Short trips to avoid the weather and plans in disarray.

Over the last few days we’ve been selective on out short trips, trying to avoid the rain. And we’ve mostly been successful.

On Sunday we moved on from Wrenbury, first passing through Church Lift Bridge…

…then the mechanised Wrenbury Lift Bridge.
With it being Sunday morning we hardly disrupted the traffic at all!

Wrenbury Frith Lift Bridge was chained in the open position, so we toddled through and on to moor just past Thomason’s winding hole.
A fine, sunny spot.

Yesterday was another bright morning so we shoved on, up Marbury Lock and finished up mooring below Quoisley Bridge after just an hour.

Railings along the edge at Marbury Lock.

Sunny morning.


The weather turned yesterday afternoon, and rain persisted into today. We would probably have stayed put, but plans have changed and we need to move on, so with the sky brightening a bit we untied at about half-one and set off.

We had a couple of light showers as we moved up the three locks to the bottom of Grindley Brook, but nothing too bad. In between there was the odd shaft of sunshine.
Quoisley Lock

The bywashes are running well with the amount of rain we’ve had. Should be interesting crossing those particularly fierce ones below the Grindley Brook singles.

The compulsory picture of Willy Moor Lock Inn

The wind lifts the skirts of the trees, highlighted by the sun against a very grey sky.

Poveys Lock was our last, then 20 minutes later we were tied up on the moorings below the Grindley Brook Locks. It’s supposed to be fine, if cloudy, tomorrow, and we’ll tackle the three singles and triple staircase in the morning.

I mentioned a change of plans, well we’ve had Mags’ GP on the phone and she wants to see her because it looks like she’s got a recurrence of the liver problem she had last year. So we’re heading on a bit to moor where I can park a hire car alongside. We’re heading north again on Friday. Mags doesn’t know what the fuss is about, she feels fine.

Locks 4, miles 6¼