Today we thought we would travel to Portland Basin and then onto Marple tomorrow; however, Portland Basin is awful, no moorings, canal bank perished and so we stopped long enough to nip to the big ASDA and get dog and cat food and then out of there.
Did some washing whilst engine was on, a beautifully sunny warm day - the warmest so far, due to a lack of wind - even Jo, our elderly black cat sat and enjoyed the scenery and we finally moored up just through Hyde Bank Tunnel.
Manchester is a funny place to cruise through - children's toys dumped in the canal, although it was nice to hear parents telling children off for dropping the bread bag and at the first bridge being helped through by local lads who operated it for me, much to their delight. Maybe that's the answer is to show these people what canal life is like; maybe, if enough had an appreciation of it, they would be more thoughtful.
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