Day 28 – Plank Lane to Dunham Massey

Having to wait for Plank Lane is a real pain in the ass.

Getting a 2 o’clock start allows me to get through Manchester. Just.

A morning in Leigh

I spend the morning fishing in the Leeds and Liverpool and reading my book.

The fishing ain’t bad. Nothing large, but a steady stream.

Plank Lane

On reaching Plank Lane bridge, there are four other boats heading South and four heading North.

Once through, it’s about 20 minutes into Leigh.

One of the boats in front pulls in to the pub, the other pulls over. Continue reading “Day 28 – Plank Lane to Dunham Massey”

Day 27 – Crooke to Plank Lane

Crooke
Starting point

Plank Lane bridge is still closed.

That means it’s not operational. As the Canal and River Trust website tells me, it’s still only open every day once, at 2pm.

Wigan Locks

I make my way through Wigan Locks.

Stop at Asda superstore to do some much needed shopping, then finish off the locks.

Don’t meet any boats on the way through.

Wigan pier

Site of industrial commerce and activity, the pier now lays derelict. The only patrons making use of it being the pigeons. Continue reading “Day 27 – Crooke to Plank Lane”

The anti-Blair cometh….

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And all shall worship him.

NO WMD….?

NO ‘greater Israel project‘….?

I watched the BBC world service in Morecambe 2 days ago, and someone on the ground at the time of the incident came on and started giving a live account.

“everyone on the ground and witnessed the event agreed, the vehicles all burst into flames at the same time”.

Almost immediately, he was cut off.

The BBC re-iterated the BBC line, ie. that it was Russia, or Syria. It was an air strike.

When they tried to get the guy on again, his sound had been cut out. It was not possible to talk to him any further about what he had witnessed first-hand at that event.

Bullshit.

Haters be hatin’

  • In the Jeremy Corbyn re-election.
  • In the Brexit vote.
  • In the Trump vs Clinton election.

All these MASS MEDIA orchestrated HATE campaigns:-

  • We all know how scary and bad Brexit was….. It happened anyhow……
  • We all know how bad a person Jeremy Corbyn is…… Re-elected anyhow…..
  • We all know what a dangerous neo-nazi fascist Trump is…… remains to be seen…..

As a general rule of thumb, I’d say if people hate you, you’re doing something right.

If the media and establishment hate you too

You’ve got to be the best person ever!

Kind of ‘anti-Blair’.

Bring it on….

Day 25 – Morecambe to Rufford – 1,000th post eva!

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“Piece of cake…” as my host said to me this morning. Turned out to be true. And thanks to Trevelyan House for the breakfast, and the service, all very good.

Didn’t do much around Morecambe.

When I was thinking walking around town, “what is it that Morecambe really needs”, and the answer is a timewarp machine. The good times have passed. It’s as simple as that.

People still pose beside the statue of Eric Morecambe on the seafront, but when that is gone. What have they got?

Trevelyan Guest House

Got woken up by the fire alarm at 11pm. Thought about going down the pub….

It went off. Being a Tuesday, most people would have called it a night anyhow, so I went back to sleep.

Hauled ass at around 8am, which is the time they start breakfast, which turned out to be a high quality affair for the £33 all in that I paid for the accommodation, breakfast, et al.

Seems that Morecambe itself was the only downfall of the stay. Continue reading “Day 25 – Morecambe to Rufford – 1,000th post eva!”