Thursday 14th March

The max / min thermometer last night got down to -8.5C. It made the canal look like this.

It made the inside look like this:

It's not quite as bad as it looks, the inside is really quite warm as the stove stays in all night.

Anyway, the ice was too thick for us to set off. We were in Leek and we had some pork and leek sausages in the fridge so, as we weren't going anywhere it seemed appropriate to have one of these.









We said goodbye to Frank. We were due to drop him off at Etruria in Stoke but there was no way we would make it there today so we found him a bus to Macclesfield where he could get a train to Manchester then Leeds to see his mate there.
We did a shop at Morrisons and lazed away the rest of the day. We decided to stay here in Leek another night tonight. The ice has melted quite a lot here but we weren't sure how things would be further down the cut in the shady woody bits. The forecast is better for tonight and due to stay on the plus side. So we hope to head off tomorrow. I hope we can as we could probably do with a fill up of water.

Zero miles, zero locks.