"are you aware of the quote button at the bottom right of each post?" - well, not really, I haven't had a good look at the forums' (forumii?) layout, but it seems a waste of computer space/memory to reprint the whole of someone's post, especially when there's a bunch of huge photos. Having Scottish genes I'm apt to skimp and save.
When somebody said yesterday 'a greenie for you' I wondered about that - could I see it anywhere, did they really give one? -and then I noticed on my profile there's a green band which says 'excellent and 53' - so that must be the greenies depository? Does that mean I have gotten 53 greenies? If so, it's a mystery to me who gave them (not me!). Dean, perhaps? !!!
Anyway, this was nothing to do with 'making money' and ripping others boaters off. Sometimes offering a helping hand is like sticking it into a doberman's mouth on these threads (Fox & Hounds, haha!?!)
Thought occurred to me this morning that we could put this idea to a little test. When we next move our boat in 4 weeks' time I could say where we're going and are there any people who'd like us to take photos of their boats, just as we go past, or from different angles if we stop nearby. Of course, Private Messages only, as has been pointed out no-one wants to advertise their boat is unoccupied. And then of course - you don't know me!!
We could send a text-message on the spot. Photos would have to wait 'til we got home a few days later (and then sent by e-mail).
Nobody needs to do anything, of course. But if the idea appeals to you, we're aiming to go from Banbury up the southern & northern Oxfords to Hillmorton. Make a note and send me a PM in, say, 3 weeks' time, if you're interested. I have an interest in photography, so that would be my fun.
I notice there's a Forum "Photos of other people's boats" - what do you all make of that, then? I know that it's legal to take photos of anything from public places (is the towpath a public place? or owned by CRT?), but even to me it seems distasteful to post photos of other people's boats on a public internet site without their approval. I know it happens by chance, as, when posting a photo of something else boats may be in the background (wife says to hubby you told me you were at Milton Keynes - what's the boat doing at Hemel Hempstead, then???...).