A civilised start hour and lovely weather put us in a good mood for the many locks we'd be facing today. The scenery helped as well; this is somewhere south of Audlem, can't remember exactly where, but the grazing sheep, rolling hills and small lake looked to be the perfect embodiment of English countryside:
After a brief stop in Audlem, then a pause to buy some more sausages for supper from George's Pork & Poultry (see first Saturday) we stopped in again at Overwater Marina to see if at last we could visit their café when it was open, which it was so we both had a nice coffee.
We were determined to see if the marina's webcam really worked so quickly logged on before we left, and lo-and-behold, there we were and Barbara stood on the stern but got tired of waving as it only updated once a minute!
Having completed the majority of the locks for the day, a break to start tidying up the boat and polishing the brass was next on the agenda.
We'd had quite a strenuous, but not stressful, day so it was good to have a change of occupation. I was pleased with the shiny brasswork; the boat looks good for the next owners aboard.
As the evening cooled down, we cruised on into Nantwich to moor a few minutes away from the marina, and very close to the attractive cast iron aqueduct over the A534.
The local drake waddled up to see if we'd offer him any food:
And that is it for our little blog; here's a last view of the sunset over the Shropshire Union Canal at Nantwich:
P.S. 3-Mobile wouldn't give us a signal last night so this has been posted first thing Saturday. Hope the car starts after a fortnight doing nothing! 
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