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If and when I see a no cycling sign, I'll push the bike.

Know soot on well, finally sailed away last year I think after being used as children's university accommodation

Well, I wonder, if, when you are there, you might be able to find out a bit more about the Gatelifter 111. Surely one of the most unusual of any vessel on any British canal. Someone there must know something. I have tried without any success,but I am far away and I do not have your clout.

I was intrigued to see this cottage had a vigorously flowering New Zealand kohwai tree lockside when we passed through at this time of year, the only one we ever saw in England. And intrigued also when we passed through in September that it did not have a single pod, as here every flower nearly produces a pod. Either they had been plucked off, or perhaps there were none of the pollen gathering birds to pollinate the flowers. Is that the kowhai with its golden yellow flowers to the right of the bottom picture?

Interesting discussion, if a bit sad. We're headed into the UK for a fortnight around the 4CR starting next week. Looks likely that we will experience actual weather this time. (We're from California. We don't have that. Not like you'd know, anyway.) I guess we don't mind low traffic, but I hope it's not a desolate experience. We've planned 4 weeks a year for the next several. We've bought a share for our cruises starting 2025. Hope not to see the canal boating economy go south. We'll do our tiny part. Hope to see someone!

Hold on. Where in my post did I query any figures? I never once argued the merits of either power source. I specifically didn't. I only said one thing. Greta and her disciples will only want to tell you the good side. I even pointed out how most of us are guilty of it in other forms. I also never mentioned whether everybody does know the full story or not. I only said that certain people won't divulge it. Well, why would they. Batteries may or may not be the answer to the meaning of life, I never argued that. So what have I said is BS? Nothing. You were reading far too much into what I said. Nothing has suggested what I do or do not believe in. Nothing has suggested how much people know or don't know. You just thought it did. It is a bit like greenies and nuclear. They hate it, so they only tell you the bad points. Politicians and any policy they come up with- They will only tell you the good points. Opposition- will only tell you the bad points. Look back. All I have done is pointed out why Greta would love Mr Jupiter and his way of looking at carbon neutral when it came to the buzz words of electricity and batteries. Whether you would or wouldn't do something wasn't initially part of your argument though. Hence I took it to an extreme to point out the error in how you looked at carbon neutrality. Or basically, how you ignored the lifecycle costs of fuels. Hence why HVO is deemed to reduce net CO2 by 90%, not 100% as you claim.

So it seems that using a vehicle of a type which, if ridden on a public highway, would be criminal offence, would not be a criminal offence if ridden on a towpath (other than the rare case where the towpath is also a public right of way).

sold for 100k apparently! I would say that someone has got good value! https://www.auctionestates.co.uk/property/lock-house-lock-row-torksey-lock-lincoln-ln1-2eh-239828

Does anyone really know what you are drinking? You may be interested to know that on the outskirts of Warrington there are several boreholes that are used to extract drinking water from aquifer's. At one of these boreholes arsenic leaches into the water through the bedrock. United Utilities were required to build an Adsorption plant to remove some of the arsenic before the water was fed into the mains. (Adsorption, simply put, = Very large filter!) Take note that I said some of the arsenic! At this particular site around 80% of the water was treated while the other 20% bypassed the adsorption process and was remixed before being fed into the mains! UU was not allowed to remove all of the contaminant - by law! (even though it was possible to do so). The percentage of removal / treatment depended of course on whatever the concentration of contaminant was in the water being pumped up and this was closely and continuously monitored. i.e., Adsorption percentage being treated was 'site specific'. This is not 'hearsay' by the way - I was tasked with writing the Company Standard / maintenance manual for this (and similar) Adsorption processes on behalf of UU. Apparently, a little bit of arsenic does you good! Personally, I prefer a large glass of malt whiskey!

One can only assume that it is someone with what they think of as a floating flat rather than a boat. Of course, a floating flat should have access to the same services as a land based flat - including unlimited water. It is London ..........................

It does now. It didn't originally, the whole back end was the fuel tank, the rudder tube ran up through the middle of it.

There is a huge amount on .gov/UK regarding pemissive rights of way but in essence this sums it up : Permissive paths, sometimes referred to as concessionary paths, are not public rights of way and the public do not have a legal right to use them. They can play an important role in improving public access to the countryside. Providing a connection between existing public rights of way where gaps currently exist in the network. As permissive paths are not public rights of way, landowners may impose conditions on their use. This can include restrictions on when the public can use them and how the paths are used (e.g. walkers allowed, but not cyclists or horse-riders). Creating a permissive route There are two main ways of establishing a permissive path either: through a formal written agreement between the Council and the owner of the land, or by the owner of land granting consent in a less formal arrangement Usually, a formal agreement between the landowner and local authority is in place. This ensures the authority will address problems encountered by users with the landowner. The agreement can include:

Maybe not, but even if you could make it up, it wouldn't be as bonkers as actually doing it! How much water do you need to use to have to have to spend every Saturday filling your tanks back up? How can that sort of consumption be despite rationing? Something doesn't add up here. Is this a cruise liner posting on the wrong forum?

So, them needing to write all that in illustrates towpaths are not a public ROW. Special measures are needed to give the public a right of access. "Right of way (no hyphens), is the legal right, established by grant from a landowner or long usage (i.e., by prescription), to pass along a specific route through property belonging to another." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_of_way Arguably the clauses you list comprise a "grant from a landowner", so perhaps a ROW does exist! No doubt a court could make a ruling at enormous expense.

Thinking outside the box. Don't suppose you fancy being CEO of the Canal and River Trust?