Setting out on the Huddersfield

Finally back in the locks, first one on the Huddersfield Canal

Didn’t make it into,  Manchester as on Thursday we visited my cousin, Dawn, in Stockport as her husband, Dave, was loaning us his car so we could drive to Plymouth for the weekend.  Just a quick visit so we could attend a surprise 25^th Wedding Anniversary party for Alan and Karen.  Paul used to work with Alan in Safeway.  Well the surprise worked as they didn’t have a clue.  A good time was had by all.  Whilst in Plymouth we managed a family lunch on Saturday with most of the family there, Sunday a quick catch up with Dave, Paul’s brother, and girlfriend Sue.  We stopped at Taunton on the way back to have lunch with Paul’s cousin, Alison and her husband another Paul.  So it was almost nine when we made it back to Stockport on Sunday night.  Dave brought us back to Falcon on Monday.  After visits to the launderette, supermarket and pump out, we headed on to the Huddersfield Canal.  Completed 4 locks before mooring for the night at Stalybridge.  Just after we moored another boat came along and it was a couple we had met in Banbury last October.  So they moored in front us and later on we went on board with them for wine and chat.  Today we have had stroll around the small town.  There is an Aldi and a Tesco, so spoilt for choice here.