Popular with narrow boat crews who saunter gently through the locks that elevate the water from the lower part of the canal up onto a longer stretch that heads out towards North Wales, walkers, and if today was anything to go by, cyclists, it’s a place that almost writes its own recommendation.
4th May 2025
After the excitement – or should that be terror? – of yesterday’s football, today was all altogether more relaxing affair. Taking full advantage of continuing dry weather we travelled out into Cheshire to the very pleasing Grindley Brook, with its canal, staggered locks and delightful cafe, to spend time with friends that we see all-too infrequently.
Nestled just over the border between Shropshire and Cheshire, Grindley Brook sits on the Llangollen canal, a 30 minute walk from the picturesque town of Whitchurch. Popular with narrow boat crews who saunter gently through the locks that elevate the water from the lower part of the canal up onto a longer stretch that heads out towards North Wales, walkers, and if today was anything to go by, cyclists, it’s a place that almost writes its own recommendation.
We’ve been there a few times now, often using it as a spot to grab a coffee and as conversation beings to flow, food, both being available from the Lockside Cafe that’s situated as its name might imply, on the edge of the canal. Arriving there today we were greeted by plenty of other visitors, some on bikes, some on foot and plenty accompanied by their dogs, who seemed to be enjoying the location as much as their human companions. It’s an idyllic slice of the British countryside within an easy drive of home that we will enjoy revisiting as and when time allows.
As I’m writing this rather later than I’d planned, I’m turning my attention to the morning and my work on the new commission that I mentioned last week. With everything now planned, I’ve downloaded Fusion 360 and started to work on some of the simpler designs that I will need to complete ready to be printed out in resin. I’m still so new to this that I’m still wondering if a more traditional approach might not be quicker, but we will have to see. Certainly, with other projects I have planned for later in the year I am going to have to wrap my head around the whole thing sooner or later, so I may as well start this week as any other! Fingers crossed that I don’t become too bogged down and that it makes life easier, rather than more difficult as time will be very much not be on my side for that to be the case…
See you tomorrow.
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Some things Fusion will help to make your model building and detailing much easier, some things it won’t. That threshold is different for everyone I know that uses it. Your mileage will definitely vary. But anytime you want precise multiples of parts, and even mirrored parts, then yes, Fusion rules.
Cheers,
Craig
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