More chain problems that were eventually fixed and a really good day ensued.  The six of them out today would have passed Rufford Old Hall en route to Southport, it is worth a visit, the Hesketh family who lived there until more recent times were benefactors of William Shakespeare, and put a lot of money up for the construction of the original Globe Theatre in London.  A long afternoon on the boating lake, which is quite large, in two boats, allowed a lot of horseplay but casualties were avoided.  Then the fairground, and as Charlie puts it, ‘a great afternoon’.