Had our fill of Wheaton Aston – pubs with mediocre beer – one that let dogs in but didn’t open until the afternoon and didn’t do food and t’other that did do food but was dog unfriendly. And it rained and it was cold! Fire back on then. Time to move on. There’s a big canal festival at Norbury, so we’ll avoid that – there’s no moorings as they are all taken up by trading boats. Two hours to Gnosall – a good spot (see blog passim) with a good micro pub and a water point.
This the canalside pub – Jennings Sneck lifter plus a good menu 
But, having to eat outside as there’s No Dogs inside 
Our spot – pretty noisy as there’s a lot of traffic, both boats and walkers plus all the permie boats seem to run their diesel engines for hours every day – solar panels guys?? Give it a miss in future. 
Ducks ain’t stupid! They know who’s got the food and they knock on the window for more 
Nice spot, early in the morning, before the rush. 
An unusual sign but quite necessary 
Steve often gets into his Victor Meldrew mode when he sees yet another No Name boat! So here’s the CRT official terms & conditions that we boaters all signed up to when licencing our boats – updated April 2019
Well Telford was a “modern” canal builder, so he didn’t meander around hills or valleys but went over them in huge embankments or deep cuttings – straighter meant a shorter route and time was money. Here’s one of the cuttings. 
Not quite the scorching May of last year 
They do try at keeping the village looking good (Gnosall – like Knows All) 
Our spot 
I really do think these two have followed us along the canal – breakfast time. 
Just down from the Navigation pub are two water points and a community herb garden 
Also moored here – Neil on Jonorolo – the plant boat – seen him a few times (Brewood 2 yrs ago) – bought Viv a nice lavender plant plus some strawberry mint.
Probably off tomorrow, Tuesday – beyond Norbury and to Black Flat bridge – a good spot (see blog 2 years ago – first time we saw Neville on the Bond boat)