Boxing Day 

Having spent Christmas day with Pip's father in York we said our goodbyes to him after breakfast and headed over the Pennines on a tediously busy M62. We arrived at Elton Moss at about 2.30. It was of course deserted as expected and we found WD to be blocking the whole width of the cut. The bow was floating untethered up against the towpath with the stern still attached (loosely with one half hitch) to Alcedonia. The bow thruster battery was flat so a tug on the centre rope got WD back to the correct side and got the canal open again.
We then loaded up and set off southwards towards Wheelock. We were loosing daylight at the bottom of the Wheelock flight so we are moored here ready for some lock work in the morning.  
We've had leftover goose for tea. I can't get the TV working so either there's no signal or the aerial's broken. Also the water pump keeps kicking in about every 15 mins so either we've got a leak or there's something wrong with the accumulator.
However the weather forecast is good and we expect an ice free week.

Mick