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Looking like a nice day here. We're off to Suffolk for our summer holiday this weekend, I'd like to book temperatures of about 23 and no rain please.

Easy water level gauge. If it goes up my nose....it's full. ??

Or else they know their fuel level by the trim of their car, but forget to account for the mother in law in the back seat...

It's your local MP.

In Weedon, eventually people like that end up at the Wheatsheaf, and get fed at the ucky House next door....they have bought a new L recently, so it sounds better.

I'm sorry, but I have a mower and an electric strimmer, so the bank looks better after I have departed than it did when I arrived.....and 70 plus foot of it too, none of this 57' short arses or smaller. ?

That's what used to happen, my dad always got the shears out when we moored up and trimmed the grass back. We carry a pair of shears and do the same if required.

When we were moored in Stoke there was an odd but harmless chap kept saying hello to us. He disappeared one day and we found out he'd fell into the canal and drowned. I did think maybe we should have taken a bit of time and talked to him. Trouble is you can get sucked into their problems and become their new best friend. It's a tough call.

Especially as a T fitting, valve and length of plastic tube will do the same for far less cost.

Sounds like a mate of @magnetman

Do what we used to do when we hired boats and don't plan a specific ultimate destination. Then if you reach Stourport then fine, but if you don't it won't be the end of the world. You're probably like most people in that you spend most of your life rushing here and there, and we loved having a week when we didn't have those time pressures and could instead have a relaxing chilled out week. Better instead to take your time and enjoy and experience of that wonderful canal and the lovely places you are passing through, having the time to stop off here and there wherever takes your fancy, whether it's for a few hours or to overnight. You don't need to plan any specific overnight mooring places because can moor for the night virtually anywhere on the towpath side. For me anything south of Kinver isn't worth pushing it for unless you have plenty of time to do it. Opinions will differ of course, but I think Stourport is a little overrated. It's nice but nothing special.

Yes, I had one of them too.I stopped using it when my coffee started tasting of diesel. This device looks good,I will be ordering one.