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If you use the same method of tying up as you do now, I would hazard a guess that the same will happen! Can you not tie it up properly in the old time honored way, like what you was told at schoool?

Thank you Steve for the update. I have also learned that there is now not a lockie at Blakes Lock. At least I have my Environment Agency licence up untill Thursday evening. Happy days! Nipper

Ah! A friend of a friend stoppage? Ah! Would that friend of yours be the same friend of your friend that had a message from someone they knew that had heard of the stoppage that JV44 knows? Apart from frustrating me on my cruise of the south of England. If this is true, then there will be an awful lot of boaters that wont be able to get back to civilisation for a long while! I have had no success in reaching the Blakes Lock lock keeper as yet! Nipper

Nothing on Stoppages. Can anyone else give any further news? I'm due to enter at Reading on Wednesday! Nipper

It seems that I am always going through Camden at the weekends. I treat it as a bit of fun and the chance to have the crack with the can swiggers, who generally are a happy bunch of all sorts, with no malice to them! Though it would be nice to stop for an hour or two at the visitors moorings sometime instead of motoring past the line of Pallet carrying boats that never seem to move! Nipper

Yes, that Pyrford disposal point is a stink hole, but don't knock it, because it's the only elson disposal point that you can guarantee to be working. This cannot be said for the Dapdune and Godalming disposal points, that were closed a few weeks ago! Nipper

Na! don't do it! you know it makes no sense!

Dean, cannot you accept that you were doing everything right, but CaRT needed to ask you a question, because there logging program is not fit for purpose and needed to make sure your were moving as they guest you were! Now relax and stop making your life complicated and go boating! Nipper

Cus, he normally has chicken shyt around his old coat cuffs from robbing those birds that have just laid! Nipper

Um! I believe that if one owned a Sunseeker, one doesn't go to the toilet! Nipper

Yes, my thought also! I wont be changing my direction of travel until I reach the bridge! By then I would think, that all loose stonework would of been taken down or make safe and perhaps a protective scaffold put around, if we are lucky! Just think of the hire boats up there, wanting to get back down to their bases by the end of the week! Methinks it wont be that long until passageway can be made Nipper

Oh! I'm so pleased that I bought a months licence to explore the Thames! Still, Oxford and the river below are still nice, with lots of out of the way moorings as long as you don't want the whole of your boat alongside! Lets hope this is sorted soon, as I can imagine, there are lots of boats the wrong side of it, for whatever reason! Nipper

Good morning, Yes, it was electric. Having bought Largo nearly three years ago, I looked at the underfloor heating with a view of getting it working, I spent 2 hours checking this and that , then decided that it wasn't ever going to work and if it did, would only use mega amounts of precious electrikery! So decided to disconnect the wires and chop them off with a sharp Chisel at floor level. Job sorted and no worries! My take on this type of heating is, it maybe ok if your connected to shore power, but it would probably be expensive to run. If you want your tootsies to be warm when in that room, then buy a bathroom rug to stand on! I must also say, that the microwave oven, that came with the boat was also launched into a skip on the same day and never replaced! I'm not much help really but I'd stick to my Multifull burning coan nuggets and with a small USB desktop fan to woft some of the heat to the back of the boat if necessary. Largo is 70ft. We never turned our central heating on last winter at all! But we were CCing and moved every two or three days all winter! Nipper

Largo had it installed in the shower room! But i don't think it ever worked properly, and I have made sure that it will never ever work again! Thats one of the two things that don't work on this boat. The heating in the shower room and Samy the Cat, she just sleeps! Nipper

So, they come on the river with or without a registration fee being paid! Well, why don't we all do that and save ourselves the money! I merely jest!! My point is that rules are rules. if they are not enforced, then why bother? Why try and enforce a rule of £100 when the enforcement for less is never taken up! I'm generalising here, but you see the point! Wether it is a licence or registration, it really means is that we have to pay! Not pay in any other walk of life and you wont get! Try not paying your council rates, your rent! your mortgage? You are risking loosing what you have. Why not your unregistered or licensed boat? Anyway, enough of that, I pay my way and enjoy the ambeance of river and canals, and now I shall draw up the mooring pins and go find another mooring later! Lets hope there are some! Nipper

Morning all! When I came on the river yesterday, I paid about £210 for a visitors licence for a month. I now have to display this white strip of paper in full view telling the world that I am a visitor and to what date I am licensed too! If I hadn't, I wouldn't be allowed past the first lock, and when it runs out I have to leave the river! It's my understanding that you cannot get full license to cruise on the river full time, unless I have a mooring. It's also my understanding that full time cruising cannot be done with visitor licences. My point is that, if these people abuse the licensing of the river and will probably not have licences, and it should be quite easy to see if they are, because there will be no visitor licence displayed. Surely it is not the local councils responsibility to sort this out, It is the River Licensing authorities, i.e. The Environment Agency's, job to do that, after all they are the ones that collect all the cash! Lets also face it, this effects all the river users from skiffs to the big jobs with the flying bridges, because we all have to stop somewhere, otherwise what's the point of a boat, whatever the size! A boat less River is, as far as I am concerned, is a dead river! Nipper Edited for a little more diction!

Today I left the River Wey after three lovely weeks visiting Grandchildren and old friends and turned left at Thames lock and am now cruising the River Thames. How disappointing that the first mooring that I chose to stay the night at after entering the Thames from the river Wey is now not a public mooring despite being on my Pearson's and on E-canal Mapp! On reaching this mooring, Ryepeck Meadow visitor moorings, there are signs giving notice of £100 charge for stopping and with 30 days to make that payment! Is this now common place on the Thames? Maybe, I have made a mistake on purchasing a months licence? I did spend three weeks on the Thames two years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it, with no such restriction like the above! Looking on the net, apparently a contractor has been appointed by the local council to enforce mooring restrictions at Ryepeck Meadow and council owned land at Shepperton. If this is so, then it will be my last visit here! Nipper

It's not the money, but the quality! Proper thick yokes with a deep yellow/orangy coolur! You won't get them at Tesco's! The chickens are not your hybred onesl ike your battery chickens, but proper Purebread ones. I used to keep Chickens and Purebreads give good eggs of quality! Nipper

Works for me! Nipper

Just bought 10 litres today, ready for my next oil change 250 hrs time! After initually using the same oil on servicing my Beta 50 last week! http://www.halfords.com/motoring-travel/engine-oils-fluids/engine-oil/mobil-super-1000-x1-15w-40-oil-5l I also bought a years supply of filters from http://www.inlinefilters.co.uk/ So now i can relax and carry on enjoying my cruising, knowing i have all the stuff for my next service on board and wont be pushed into buying the £35 for 5 litres some Chandlery shops charge! Nipper

There is nobody at Brentford out of tidal times! Lockie arrives 5 minutes before your due to go out, on his push bike. If you can't get hold of him, I would just turn up, as did a couple of boats did when i came up to Teddington few weeks ago! There is time to get plenty of locks full of boats heading Teddingtons way. Have a good trip and mind the weed on the run into Brentford. Nipper PS. There is a lockie at the Gauging locks, from about 9 am ish!

Service area at Godalming is now open and working, if a little slow!! Nipper

Just slightly off topic! To all boaters heading upstream to Godalming, who may require to use the Elson and water point at Godalming. The facilities building is out of order and dead locked, and because the navigation has removed fron outside tap to inside that building, there is no tap either! Best be bunkering up with water at The Dapdune Wharf and use that Elson disposel too! I did suggest they put a notice on the Stoke lock balance beam, or indeed, include one in your welcolme pack you get from Thames lock, but i think that is too challenging for them! Nipper note! there is a tap on the wooden building the horse boat uses at Godalming, but i think it belongs to the horse boat, but they didnt object when i used it!