Here I am Rune
Distance 0 miles
Total 1136 Locks 62 Tunnels
Running total mileage 1611.8miles
Today was our last standstill day until we get to Liverpool
next Friday, for each of the next few days we will need to do about 8 miles,
not a great distance but we will need to do it to stay on track to reach
Aintree by Thursday.
The purpose of the standstill day today was for the
opportunity for me to go swimming and also to enable the Sunday lunch to be
cooked for lunchtime (if we travel during the day we have it in the evening.
Whilst walking to the swimming pool (at the back of Leigh
Centurions Rugby League ground) I passed a mural under one of the canal bridge
on which was written R.I.P Lauren Pilkington Smith. Always curious about these
sort of shrines I did the internet research and found that it was a local girl
who was murdered in July 2005. Reading the local newspaper archive on it the
likelihood was that the murder was committed on the footpath that I had walked
along to get to the swimming pool. The murderer was tried and convicted and is
currently in prison and not eligible for parole until at least 2020, hopefully
not until well after that.
Tomorrow we’re back on the move and the target is just
beyond Wigan ‘pier’ so should hopefully include a photo of this famous landmark
on tomorrow’s post.
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