Hello and welcome back to my blog 😊.

Storm Elin brought high winds and heavy rain to Manchester yesterday so no chance of getting a walk in.

This morning myself and Angela drove to the National Trust property Dunham Massey only to find that it was not open because they were inspecting the trees for damage from the storm yesterday.

We decided to park in Dunham Massey village and go up on to the Bridgewater Canal for a walk. The village has many lovely cottages – all painted red.

The canal was quiet – guess the rain had put most people off from venturing out. We had the towpath to ourselves as we walked along the canal looking at the many boats that were moored up. There was a mixture of very well maintained boats and some needing more TLC.

We walked from Dunham Massey towards Lymn passing a couple of busy Marinas.

We passed a small mechanical crane used for putting timbers into the canal when maintenance is being carried out on the canal.

We headed back to Dunham Massey and found that the National Trust property had now opened so our first port of call was the café!

Suitably fortified we then went for a walk in the gardens and park – again it was nice and quiet.

There were a couple of flooded fields from the river Bolin that looked like lakes now – when will the rain ever stop? The rainfall over the last 3 months must be a record?

Towards the end of our walk the sun made a very welcome appearance. We had walked just over 9 miles by the end of our walk – happy with that!

Happy Walking!