Daily Archive: September 23, 2014

How far’ve you come? 2

How far’ve you come?

“How far’ve you come?” someone called out  from the bottom of his garden on Sunday afternoon. “Just from Poynton.” “Not far then!” “Well, we left in May and we’ve done 700 odd miles.” “ You’ve had good weather then… “ Thus went a snatched conversation at Hurdsfield on the northern outskirts of Macclesfield. The Macclesfield Canal is shallow, the going is never fast so there are frequent boat-to-shore exchanges. On Saturday morning the Cheshire Three had arrived at the bottom of...