David Richardson

And this from a new correspondent Dave Richardson, who works for Ford Motors as a designer: "My partner Dawn and I are in the research stage of life on the cut and everything that goes with it.
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Dave asked whether his Alaskan Malamutes - Nanook, Meeka and Scabbers - will adapt to life on a narrowboat.
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The first couple on Saturday were expected because David and Christine Owen-Roberts had said months ago they would try to get over from their home in Nantwich to see us and a few days before they had sent a text arranging their visit to us at Adlington.
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We first heard from David fairly soon after starting this diary but even though we had passed their narrowboat Isis where they keep her on the Shroppie they had been at work and we had not met them until the end of last season - and then only as quick hail and farewell when they passed us on the Middlewich branch.
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All six of us sat around chatting, eating the aforementioned sandwiches and a delicious home-made tiramasu that Christine and David had brought for us - together with a couple of bottles of beer that included an unusual Christmas brew called Bah-Humbug (consumed last night with great pleasure).
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Ann and Philip are pictured here and there's one of David and Christine on Latest pictures who like other boating friends have their own page which can be added to if we meet again later this year when we return from the South via the Shroppie.