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Do we never take any notice of what is happening around the canals we live on or is it just otherpeople that have accidents. Standing on gunnels is an accident waiting to happen.http://www.narrowboa...-against-bridge Of course the nice thing about a trad is that you can be alone rather than having that social space.

PM me if you want to borrow an anchor or chain, we are in Brentford. Rob

I'm not the one trying to dictate it's future. Will you be providing proof that the boat is yours? If, as you say, the ownership dispute is settled then you must surely have documentary evidence supporting your claim.

Oh dear

Grand piano and maybe a gas bottle spanner.

You seem to be misunderstanding what I am saying. I am not suggesting that we shouild have received an historic account of every boat, but some informatuion about some of the boats and their occupants (which could have been pre-recorded) might have have helped fill the periods when there was little to present, rather than Matt Baker looking sideways at a screen commenting about someting we could not see, or Tess Daley prancing about in a silly hat in the rain. I agree, it was not a History lesson, but it wasn't Children In Need either. It was a unique and well organized event involving a thousand boats, centered on the 60 year reign of the Monarch, it deserved a better standard of presentation than it got. I suppose we should just be grateful that the BBC spared us the presence of Chris Evans or Alan Carr!!

I wouldn't normally advocate reading the Daily Mail, but Jan Moir has summed it all up very well:- http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2154222/Queens-Diamond-Jubilee-2012-BBC-sank-tide-wittering-inanity.html Other Newspapers and various Twitter pages have made similar observations Edited to add:- Paul, beat me to it But that says it all, did you try to sit through six hours of gibberish and idiotic amateur side shows from "personalities" who were clearly much more interested in their own self promotion rather than the event. I am sure that the event itself was outstandingly enjoyable, unfortunately the BBC failed to represent that emotion

I thought the BBC's handling of the event was nothing short of abysmal. No reflection on the event itself, but hard to see how the Beeb could have massacred it much more. As someone who knows bugger all about football, you wouldn't put me commentating on a big match, but the BBC seemed perfectly prepared to put up people commentating on a massive display of boats who not only knew nothing about them, but didn't have any briefing materials either. The ultimate bit of dumbing down, I felt. I don't have the availability of Sky, so can't comment on what seems to be an acceptance that they did rather better.

It was a pageant of celebration, not a boating seminar. Lets not forget, probably less than 1% of the population are boaters, but this event is designed to appeal to everyone, not just us boating anoraks. I thoroughly enjoyed watching a unique and spectacular carnival on the Thames. The planning and organisation were simply fantastic and the whole show paid well-deserved honour to our queen. Its a great shame the weather put paid to the Finale fly-past though. That would have been the icing on the cake. I do agree the commentary was cringeworthy at times, by why focus on that? The pictures and atmosphere were fabulous, and much more worthy of our attention. Overall, I loved it and am proud of it.

Its not supposed to be a history lesson. Its a bloody great show for the mass majority of Great Britains residents not just us saddo boating faternity. Good on em I say. We av just come back from six hours cruising and in the pub having a great time, its great to see all the boats ont Thames, who cares wether or not some bloke doesnt know his arse from his elbow with regards to boats.......it dont matter........... Tim

I have been watching the pageant for nearly an hour and I am thoroughly fed up with all the "Talking Heads" The BBc seem to have wheeled out every reporter they can find and asked them to utter about almost any inconsequential drivle rather than anything about the boats or the organizations being reprensented. Unless things improve over the next hour, this will be one of the worst examples of missed opportunity that the BBC has committed in recent years.