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Trip Start May 06, 2008
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Trip End Sep 30, 2008


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Monday, September 8, 2008

Rosemary very kindly ferried us back to Heybridge Basin and having dropped us off by 09:30, headed off to work. She will be coming to Tollesbury on Friday to pick us up, together with as much of the boat's contents that we can fit in her car. The plan is to pick up a hire car on Saturday to take us and our boaty goods and chattels back to Alderley Edge, marking the absolute end for this year's travels on Celtic Warrior. The few days we had spent at Rosemary's had been relaxing and fun - especially so as the weather had been so miserable and we'd had enough of being marooned on the boat for this year, so a big thank you, Rosemary.

 
Back to the present and the first thing we noticed was that there must have been in the flight path of a flock of incontinent starlings who liked blackberries or elderberries. The boat was covered in blue-black splattery splodges, splodges that left a stain when washed off. Fortunately, I keep a veritable cornucopia of cleaning chemicals on board (not very green but boat comes first!) and I discovered that rust remover worked brilliantly, turning the stains bright pink initially then within a couple of seconds, they disappeared. That kept me amused for a while and once done, and after lunch, we did a Swallows & Amazons thing and inflated the dinghy and headed off up the canal for an adventure. The journey took us as far as Tesco, about 2 miles up the canal and very pretty it was, until we reached Maldon's environs, with factories and Tesco looming large on the horizon.
 
Adventure over, we happily spent the rest of the day reading and watching another of the American Pie series in the evening - thank you Simon for providing them!
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