Great Heywood and we are famous!!!!

This weekend it is the beer festival in Stone so it is going to be very busy glad we managed to get through it before hand. Close by last nights mooring which was at bridge 92 not 90 there was a live band in a pub garden quite loud but at 11pm they finished their set and peace rained again.

Decided to leave early before everyone else (mind you 2 boats went past at 7.30 and that's what I call early) Just ready to set off and 2 boats came along heading the same way as us. So yet again queue at the locks, still at least every one helped each other. At one lock a BW work boat was on the moorings so there was chaos as 3 boats were waiting with only room for one to tie up. An old boat in front of us was having engine trouble so he ran aground. I managed to get onto the towpath via the workboat then Paul tied up to it. The old boat very kindly let us go through before him, must have thought we were in a hurry. At another lock the chap from the boat in front said "your boat is in the magazine" he quickly nipped below to retrieve said magazine while his wife was busy sorting out the lock (this sounds familiar) and sure enough in the August edition of Canal Boat there is a letter about naming a narrow boat and a picture of OUR BOAT NAME. Don't know when it was taken or by whom but this is our five minutes of fame and we are going to milk it.

Carried on to Great Heywood where as to be expected it is very busy we finally found a mooring below the lock only down side is TV is rubbish so you can imagine how Paul is feeling its F1 this weekend so we will be moving to a better place in the morning.

We walked up to the marina to see if they had a Canal Boat mag but no luck there, chap in the shop said we would probably get one in the Spar which we did. Once back at the boat I had a quick reccy the other side of the bridge where there are lots of boats moored but it is open country tow path side as this is where Shugborough Hall is, hopefully there will be a space tomorrow. Back on the boat I was down below reading the magazine when Paul shouted me, there he was chatting to two nice ladies who told him they read our blog. Was nice to meet Carol from nb Caxton and Jill nb Matilda Rose they told us they would be moving on in the morning so hopefully we will be able to nip into one of their spaces.

It is 5.45 now and it is still busy with boats coming down through the lock. Dont know where they will be mooring but I'm sure they will find somewhere even if they travel for a couple more hours. Poor things.