Up at sparrow fart. It's a bit chilly so I go to turn on the heating before putting the kettle on. The boiler makes its normal click click click noise but then stops! I try again a few times but its not going to go. Another job for Ken, he's not going to be pleased. Packing, cleaning, loading car, filling the water tank all before 9 AM when the CC staff turn up. I talk to Ken about the boiler and the new batteries. He says the boilers do that when the battery voltage is low but we are hooked up to the mains so it can't be that. Anyway he fixes the boiler by turning off the diesel supply to it, then making it try to start up 3 or 4 times, then turning the fuel supply back on then starting it again. Bingo! The boiler is now working.
There are some boats to shift around before we can get to the fuel and pump out pumps. The diesel tank gets filled with 53 litres of diesel and we are assured that the pump out will be completed. We opt for an invoice so that we can pay by internet banking when we get home. This gets round the 50p charge that is levied on debit card purchases at CC.
We leave Ken contemplating changing our batteries and wave bye bye to WD. We stop at Waitrose in Sandbach for a cuppa and a bacon butty in their cafe. Here we bump into Paul and Aileen Jordan, co-owners who are on WD from today. We have a good chat with them and then head off back home to Scarborough.
Summary:
0 miles, 0 locks, 1 broken boiler, then 1 fixed boiler, 2 bacon butties, 150 miles by road.
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