Post:         Charlie and his finances !   As ever living on the edge, hours to go to the Bolton Holiday Wakes Week and it is all doom and gloom – for now !

Long discussions with Tom Idle did little to lift the financial gloom, so we must be patient as to the outcome.  (You will not be disappointed!).

Saturday, June 27                                           Great Budworth

 This is the first day of the Bolton Holiday Wakes Week, but owing to financial strains, I find it impossible to tour all week  I may, however, manage three or four days later in the week.  Tom is coming over for the night to enjoy Home Rule with me, and for a run north tomorrow, so I had arranged to meet him at Great Budworth, tea-time.  I started at 3pm, with a helping wind behind, via Butts Bridge and across Chat Moss to Warburton.  Just beyond Heatley, I met three Boltonians and one of them, an active CTC-ite, was helping the other two to start a tour.  As they were going my way, I joined in with them, and so we proceeded along the lanes via High Legh together.  Two got behind, and we had to search for them, finding them with a broken thermos flask.  (They were starting their tour with an all-night run).  After that we made good progress to Great Budworth, where they decided to stop for tea.  Tea was ordered, then Tom came up, and after a wash we tucked in.  We spent quite a long time here, chatting, then bidding the others goodbye – and a fine tour – (Wye Valley), we started back.  TShe same road was good enough, for who can beat that winding, shady lane to High Legh?  With the wind behind it did not take us long to cross Chat Moss and get into the smoky regions again.  We got home and to bed early, following the maxim ‘Early to bed and early to rise’.            55 miles