My parents have arrived safely... and left safely to Ireland! I pick them up again on Sunday, so hopefully they're having a lovely time. The weather's bound to turn again before they're home, so they'll never believe me when I say we've been having bright blue skies here in Mossley.
On this day we went on the train to Marsden, a village near Mossley. We got there on the weekend of the annual jazz festival - I'm sure it's not this busy normally! After some classic fish and chips for lunch (and I convinced Mum to try some mushy peas, local delicacy - Dad wasn't quite up for it though), we went for a ride on one of the longboats along the Huddersfield canal into UK's longest tunnel - 3 miles. It was very interesting.
Now this isn’t that tunnel! But it is the same canal, which goes just past my place. Lots of history, pre-railways etc. There’s a lovely walk alongside where the horses used to pull the boats full of industrial revolution textiles. My friend from Newcastle, Paul, came for a walk with Ulrich and me from Mossley to nearby Stalybridge on that first day of sunshine (it’s been nearly a week now!).
