{"id":14765,"date":"2022-10-30T21:32:49","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T21:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=14765"},"modified":"2022-11-01T02:43:21","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T02:43:21","slug":"world-tour-of-cheshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=14765","title":{"rendered":"World tour of Cheshire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I spent the day on the boat. The list of priority jobs were largely outside tasks. Today was the third attempt to get up there in a fortnight, but heavy rain in Deganwy kept me at home. Today I took a chance. I&#8217;ve had a large roll of thick memory foam in the back of my car for weeks, and cutting that to shape and size of the quarterberth was Job Number One.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once again the weather decided to be uncooperative. Periodically it absolutely pissed down. But I managed to complete a few internal jobs:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Fixed the charger for the handheld VHF<\/li><li>Cleaned the head and flushed through with fresh water<\/li><li>Cut the memory foam as above<\/li><li>Checked the instrument\/nav lights (nav lights OK, instrument backlights not so good)<\/li><li>Drained the bilges<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>What didn&#8217;t get done:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Sand and oil the coachroof grab rails<\/li><li>Sand and oil the companionway woodwork<\/li><li>Change the starboard compass<\/li><li>Measure the volume of and sterilise the port and starboard fresh water tanks<\/li><li>Check the water heater and shower and galley taps<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I need a day of good weather to get them done and I&#8217;m reliant on that falling on a weekend now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At 15.54, bout 50 minutes after I set off, the good lady satnav said there was congestion on the usual route so she was taking me a quicker way home. Well, I don&#8217;t actually know if it was quicker (not being able to be in two places at the same time\/not being able to make the trip via two routes at the same time), but blimey and indeed O&#8217;Reilly the good lady satnav and I covered a lot of miles. We also visited (well OK, passed through) some places. Some of these some places were a little bit&#8230; Odd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Chester<\/li><li>The Crocky Trail<\/li><li>Guy Lane (no, really)<\/li><li>Clotton (not Clutton, that&#8217;s in Somerset)<\/li><li>Tiverton (which I remember as being in Devon)<\/li><li>Tarporley (I thought that was in Manc)<\/li><li>Beeston (which I thought was in Nottingham)<\/li><li>Snugbury&#8217;s (the site of a bloody enormous insect of some species or other &#8211;  see below)<\/li><li>Nantwich, and<\/li><li>A whole pile of other places I&#8217;m not able to recall right now.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Accompanying this journey through madness was a bunch of eclectic music but the most pertinent was a track called &#8216;The Body is still there but the mind is gone&#8217;, by the stunning musical collective <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therockoftravolta.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Rock of Travolta<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The whole trip felt massively surreal. The total journey time was 3-1\/4 hours I don&#8217;t know if sticking with the motorways would have been quicker, it would definitely have been less road miles, but would it have been so geographically interesting?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I doubt it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s that monster insect I drove past at Snugbury&#8217;s. It&#8217;s massive!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"310\" height=\"162\" src=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Snugburys.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14766\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Snugburys.jpg 310w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Snugburys-300x157.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent the day on the boat. The list of priority jobs were largely outside tasks. 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