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Just watched this on the Talking Pictures channel. The Prendergast File 1964. Spoof documentary. The Ministry of Public Apathy sends Prendergast to assess Britain's canal network Never heard of this before. You can watch the film here ---- http://www.eafa.org.uk/catalogue/4088

Yeah, the other way round - you'd be full of it!

In my view one needs to have an Anode, Cathode and electrolyte making a corrosion cell before it can be called a power supply. An anode on it's own is just a lump of metal.

Apparently it's not so harsh if you don't use the hammer setting...

Mail boxes definitely ought to be wider than the post.

How clever, traps that catch a specific coloured mouse. ?

I always assumed your avatar was a picture of your pet but now I realise it's a serving suggestion.

Who told you that load of bollocks?

Mind you, at the same time a different piece of the puzzle will have probably fallen on the floor at the same time, without you noticing... Happens like this for me anyway!

Well, you know the old saying.... If shit were wit.... You'd be full of it. Or is it the other way round?

I recommend an oil stone

I’ve told this tale before but I’ll repeat it as a warning to ALWAYS expect the unexpected at manned locks, especially Keadby. I’d phoned Keadby and booked entry for 9am but double checked this the day before as I went down Cromwell. He actually rang him while I waited and 9am was confirmed. The following day at exactly 9am I approached Keadby as 2 boats left the lock with the keeper seeing them off from his gantry. Spot on I thought, but just before the bows entered the lock the gates slammed shut! I waited with rising blood pressure against the gates while he filled the lock and let another boat out. His excuse for his actions was a classic, it wasn’t that he hadn’t seen a boat headed for the open lock, but that he didn’t know it was the one booked in! That’s despite the fact it was exactly 9am and I was the only boat booked in or even going downstream that morning. I also explained in fine clear language that you don’t fill an empty lock with a boat waiting below on a canal, never mind a dangerous tidal river. What a dick. It’s the only time in my 197 years of boating that I’ve complained to CRT, which apparently fell on deaf ears.

And wearing their gums away with power tooth brushes.