h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

On Tuesday 28th August 2001 I walked the canal towpath from Stewponey, near Stourton, north towards Hinksford. This area is where Worcestershire, Staffordshire and Shropshire meet and I'm not sure which county I was in. It was a beautiful day and I headed north for just over an hour, had lunch at the Navigation pub, cheese salad sandwich and a pint of Marston's Pedigree Bitter, then walked back. This is a gorgeous stretch of canal with a rich variety of landscape along the way. Discovered a cherry tree in the verge beside the towpath with cherries growing on it, usually we only get those ornamental cherry trees, grown for their blossom in the spring but no actual cherries produced. A handful of people were chugging along in canal boats, and a few anglers were settled in quiet contentment, saw one young lad land a decent sized fish just as I passed him. I have only ever been fishing twice and I have no idea what sort of fish it was.