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I see no reason to "modernise" a system that has worked perfectly well for hundreds of years. There are far more important things for CRT to spend money on.

It’s the brine that they not only cure the bacon with but with which they inject the bacon prior to slicing it in order to increase its weight. I only buy dry cured from a local butcher these days for that reason. It’s more expensive but you’re buying bacon, not salty water.

KETCHUP?? Heathen! Bacon Butties come with brown sauce. Anything else is an aberration against nature,

I agree with Mike that switching to EVs alone is not enough and it does feel rather like pissing in the wind. There is not one single thing that will solve the climate emergency problem so it's no good saying "X is a waste of time, we need to stop doing Y as that is a bigger problem". Yes, we need to stop using fossil fuels for our own personal transportation, which is why I am in favour of switching to EVs as they use less, albeit not zero depending on the generation mix. But we also need to stop flying, stop going on cruise ships, stop buying stuff shipped half way round the world, stop buying landfill tat, eat much much less meat (especially beef and lamb), have a much more plant-based diet, stop heating our homes and offices with fossil fuels, stop cutting down Brazilian forests, stop electing people like Donald Chump and lots more besides. It just goes on and on. Some of this is starting to happen slowly. Some of it there is little or no sign of yet. I expect these things will start to accelerate eventually but only when it becomes blindingly obvious to everyone, including the afore mentioned Chump and his ilk, that the human race is to blame. Unfortunately, by then it will probably be too late and we will a!ready be into runaway climate change that will ultimately result in extinction of our species and probably most others as well. It may already be too late. I think it probably is. But that doesn't mean we should give up. Whilst there's still life there's still hope so I will continue to try to do my bit. I reduce/re-use/recycle. I do not fly. I try to reduce unnecessary car journeys and try to drive with a light right foot. I don't light my stove in the middle of August, no need, I have additional layers of clothing I can put on.I I don't overheat my (reasonably) well-insulated house I have solar panels so I can minimise engine running on non-cruising days. I try to eat less meat. Especially beef and lamb. And so on. I admit I don't do enough of the above. I need to do better. But it's a start and I am trying. Sadly though, I think it will all ultimately prove to be futile and the human race has totally screwed itself. It probably won't be our generation that pays the price though, it will be our children and their children, and there will be much pain and suffering along the way. But looking on the bright side, the sun is out after a miserable non-cruising rainy day yesterday, so I can go cruising today and burn up some more fossil fuel along the way. But I will only do 2 or 3 hours and I will keep the revs down. Every little helps I suppose. Happy daze.

I was feeding and stroking my christmas gammon this morning. I was also giving water to my christmas leg of lamb.

William Edwards appears in the 1881 Brentford census as born abt 1846 in Colesley Saffordshire a married boaman (Bargeman) abode is listed as Steam Tug Arab 46 his wife is not with him but 2 x daughter Julia age 17 & Rebecca 18 are listed with him plus a boat hand john Johnson sorry added info he was in town Lock on the night of the Census

I suspect I will long gone before this affects me....and I’m not going to stress about giving up my boat anytime soon unless the tree huggers & dogooders decide to go for an easy target...as said at the start of this thread air travel should be banned first. While people are allowed to reproduce as they wish anything else is just masking the true cause of too many people on a small planet.

It all helps but it is NOT ENOUGH. You are fooling yourself if you think fiddling about at the margins will make any difference. Emissions from shipping, aviation, steel manufacture all dwarf CO2 from our boats and cars.

Imagine trying to explain to a 999 call handler who is in the depth of Scotland and has never heard of canals, exactly where you are on the southern Grand Union near a bridge where an un-numbered road crosses the canal, several miles away from a couple of villages that she can't find on the map, all while desperately trying to stay conscious after suffering a serious injury. The only reason the ambulance found me was that the driver called my number, from 10 miles away when he couldn't find me, and somebody else from another boat that had stopped picked it up and answered then talked them in using his local knowledge of the lanes. The app would have helped then.

No but I know a fish joke. What do you call a fish with no eye? A "fsh". Works better spoken.... Gosh is that the time??

Or worse, unplug and run an extension lead into a nearby house to run the tumble dryer all night...

Yes red hot then unscrewed the pipe, I think mine had a female coupler welded to the flange.

Bloomin eck!! I had forgotten about Pan Yan pickle

Well I,m more than willing to do it ,, I will have to get my operators card renewed , and I also fix them ,,

I seem to recall that the jam variety were mined in a small town just outside Liverpool.

Yes thank you that is him. I am admin for Wolverhampton Family History Facebook group which covers Coseley so am trying to help. She has asked who employed him in 1881 which I am struggling with. She did not tell me it was a Steam Tug so that is useful. I have not had the chance to view the census myself as out group is busy at the moment.

@handbar Welcome to the forum. These sites may help: http://www.spellweaver-online.co.uk/ https://www.familytreeforum.com/content.php/325-Canals-and-Waterways https://www.canalmuseum.org.uk/collection/family-history.htm https://theboatinggenealogists.com/ https://www.findmypast.co.uk/?ds_kid=43700028815663246&msclkid=68baa09e348a1985ec71fdc610025828&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Brand - Prospecting&utm_term=findmypast&utm_content=ST_Exact_findmypast&ds_rl=1272596&gclid=CNqFyZ6jiuQCFQhgGwodbdANuA&gclsrc=ds https://www.ancestry.co.uk/ https://home.rootsweb.com/ Mrs T and myself traced the ancestry of one boating family we know, back 10 generations, 5 of which were connected with the English canals. I'm afraid it is hard going needing much research, not a 5 minute job. Often Birth, Marriage, Death certificates are needed, copies of these cost in the region of £9.00 a certificate. As many of the boat people were illiterate the spelling of a sir name can vary. "Who do you think you are?" makes it look all too easy. There are a couple of ladies on this forum who specialise in UK canal family history, they pop in from time to time. Best of luck!

I suspect its a bit like an electric motor - maximum pull (torque) at zero speed (revs).

nutter!

Imagine a world of EVs and someone coming up with an alternative, ICE vehicles, naysayers would point to the complicated infrastructure required, fuelling stations everywhere kept supplied with lorries belching diesel fumes. Vehicles would need frequent oil changes, complicated engine management systems and a complex arrangement of clutches and gears to transmit power to the wheels. It will never happen.

All this talk of climate change destroying life on Earth makes me wonder how it's survived 4 billion years with such a delicate 'knife edge' ecosystem.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/thedriven.io/2019/04/24/tesla-extends-range-to-near-600km-says-new-batteries-will-last-1-6-million-kms/amp/

I was born and brought up in a pit village. My parents and grandparents having had to eak food out both through WW2 and on low pay after the war would never have dreamed of using butter or marg on a bacon sandwich. So i had no choice. Much the same way as my mum didn't like currants - so no fruit cake, didn't like briwn sauce - so no brown sauce. I carried on with the no butter until 1980. At that time I was working delivering frozen food and ice cream to shops, restaurants etc in Yoeks, Notts Lincs. One day I turned up to stock Newstead Hall up for the summer. The key holder for the storeroom was not there but the cafe girl was. Could I wait? Could i wait if there was a bacon sandwich and cuppa in it? Yes of course. She fried the bacon i butter and served it in a buttered bread cake. Bliss. At home, yes to butter (SWMBO) likes it that way) in a shop it varies with the extras, so I swing both ways. As for brown sauce I usually decline, but do like a bit of Branston with a cheese and crisps sandwich.

My Honda Insight is a case in question for long battery life some have done 400k on the original packs! but to be honest it takes work

how do you stop Joe Public from getting the app and messing with the locks?

Best bacon I've tasted was dry cured oak smoked from a butchers in Kinver, pricey but well worth it, zero spitting in the pan unlike some of the so called 'dry cured' expensive stuff I've tried over the years. In Yorkshire it's called a bacon sandwich, not the Lancashire term 'butty' ? ETA: I assume it is from Lancashire?

Your £2500 set of batteries will only last a tiny fraction of the lifespan of your diesel engine. The carbon footprint of producing all these batteries will probably exceed that of your diesel engine with your cruising pattern.

I think you mean Paul Separovic, he is still active but the account has been renamed a month or three ago to https://twitter.com/EnvAgencyAnglia There is also good information on various Nene related facebook groups, including one run by Friends of the Nene.

Because most of the people affected by pollution would not agree with the 2nd statement. Even if they did they would no doubt prefer it if they and their children were not poisoned in the meantime. I know I would.

It looks fairly fully pontooned. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Barby,+Rugby/@52.3407462,-1.2174223,346m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x48773fa38c9e9bdd:0x429502345b32c1ec!8m2!3d52.3288526!4d-1.2044323

Renaming is part of a destabilising program, like 'reframing'. Lose an identity, and part of history is lost. The subject is deeper than you might think. Leg O' Mutton lock only survived for the length of a film, but what if it had had a sign put up? Cow Roast sounds odd, but not if associated with the achievement of reaching the summit when built, and a Cow was roasted in the celebrations, or so the story goes. Several locks are named after families that lived there even after their successors have long gone. It's like that with houses where I live, there's 'Annies' and 'Turners', people and families long gone, but their memories are held inperpetuity by locals, though there are no physical signs. Ashted Locks; Farmer's Bridge; Sutton's; Carpenter's; Corketts; Broad Street; Maffers (spell it how you like), so it will remain. Respect history by leaving it be, and passing it on.

"Bacon" is a great name for a butty!!

Oddly enough, there was a boat there today, running his engine and ignoring the (official) sign. Now, I am all for ignoring unofficial signs (and have form on dealing with householders who have "contacted the water board about you lot"), and I thing CRT made an error in agreeing to the official signs, but official signs should be respected. The same boat passed us whist we were moored for lunch in Bollington, and then we passed them near our mooring, moored up and running in gear. I won't name and shame, but in accordance with standard practice, the boat has been noted in the log, and its name struck through in a firm manner.

Stop it . . . . I'm trying to count. No chance I'm afraid. Nice to see the Larbert fitted though. I do wonder if when used as a maintenance/ice boat that the original table cupboard and cross bed would have simply been left in situ. TYCHO would have been just six years old and fitted with all the usual fittings. I cannot see any advantage in removing such fittings when all that was required was a shortened boat and re-inforced fore end. At a time when we were at war, the provision would have been to get the job done as quiclkly as possible without faffing about removing said fittings, I feel pretty certain they would have been left as was. But this is 78yrs later. Maybe I should build a model of TYCHO - as she was in 1999. No mooring fees, no insurance, no CoC, no anglers. No boating either, but even that has changed.