Alway Swilby

Yes. Another warm welcome to a new member from the old faithfuls.

I have thoght for some time that this day would come and I fully understand the reasons for shutting the site down. Thank you Stuart for keeping the site going for so long. It has been very useful. I can't beat @Dave Hunter 's totals though. So far we've only done (in two boats) 8,403 miles and 5,186 locks. It's a shame about the gpx files but I have always known that it was not possible to download this data and accepted that fact by using the site (for free) in the first place. Thanks again Stuart and do let us know if you do indeed "restart the project".

Our 20 litre bucket lasts about 4 weeks before we need to put a new one in. Two of us living aboard. As Brian says, it's the poo and sawdust bit not the wee bit. No liquid involved.

Should have done!! We are at Pear Tree at the moment. It's very nice but remote!

Both Islip and Whiston Locks on the Nene are closed at the moment. Islip is due to a gearbox failure on the guillotine gate. Whiston is due to a "mechanical failure". The EA cannot provide a timescale for fixing either lock.

Before you get to Isis lock there are good 48 hour visitor moorings on the right hand side (towpath side) in Jericho. There are also about two 48 hour visitor moorings at the end of the dead end after you pass Isis lock. But unless you are under about 35ft you can't turn so have to reverse there or back again. Yes, you turn left to go south on the Thames. If you don't have a Gold Licence you'll have to buy an EA licence at the first staffed lock you come to on the Thames. Also there are good moorings on the Thames above Osney Lock but you might have to pay the lock keeper.

I know! It is navigable but very few people do navigate it. The Tuesday Night Club have been there.

There is no government until 5th September!

Also two places in Goole, Viking Marina and Goole Boathouse. I don't know their current prices.

Three visiting narrowboats are moored on the Ship Inn moorings in March this evening (17/8). It's been a bit weedy after coming down Marmot Priory Lock but not too bad.

It's ok. We'll fill with water at the town moorings tomorrow so that should more than cover the amount you took out! 🙂

Closing the locks for 16 hours per day allows the pounds above time to recover and for back pumping to transfer good quantities of water without it being sent straight back down again.

The home mooring has to be a CRT Waterside mooring that also has the MeterMacs installation.

My understanding is that the Meter Macs at the London visitor moorings are independant from the Meter Macs in the rest of the country. You can only get a nationwide works anywhere MeterMacs account if you have a home mooring that has Meter Mac posts. If you do have this you can use your pin number anywhere else. If you CC they won't give you a Meter Macs account no matter how much you try and reason with them that it would be a good and useful thing. Anyone can get an account for the London VMs but it only works at the London VMs. The upshot of this is that if you are moored on visitor moorings by a Meter Macs post at for instance West Stockwith, Doncaster, Boston and others I can't think of right now you have to upset the locals (particularly at Boston) by running your engine to charge batteries instead of plugging in.

BBC local news programmes are only available on catch up for 24 hours.

If I find a windlass (or nappy pin or chain or mooring spike or indeed a handcuff key) I just keep it. It makes up for the times you loose things.

There isn't a water point shown at Riddlesden on the Waterway Routes map. They are usually very accurate about such things.

Head north as you were going to. At Great Heywood turn left onto the Staffs & Worcester for a bit then right onto the Shroppie and there you are.

Wesnesday 20th July. It was 100% domestic. She did say we got it at the old price and it was due to go up imminently.

Ah! I got it wrong. I suppose it depends which profit you are talking about. Obvs I was talking about the "Underlying Replacement Cost Profit" not the "Profit Attributable to the BP Shareholders". Also I was looking at the wrong quater, should have been the 2nd quater of 2021 not the first quater of 2022 From the Guardian aticle: "The FTSE 100 oil company on Tuesday said its preferred measure of profit, which it describes as its underlying replacement cost profit, rose to $8.5bn (£6.9bn) between April and June. That is up from $6.2bn in the first three months of the year, and three times BP’s underlying profits of $2.8bn in the second quarter of 2021." Accountants (and media oultets) can always make figures look like they want them to look. Anyway, our most recent purchase of diesel cost us £1.23 per litre at Priory Marina in Bedford.

Yes, I get all that. The point I was trying to make was that their profit tripled in 3 months while we're all moaning about high diesel prices.

Meanwhile, in other news BP's profits triple to £7bn PER QUATER! BP Profit

Talking of lack of water on the Nene, does navigation ever get suspended due to lack of depth? We need to travel from Peterborough up to Gayton but won't be able to start from Peterborough until late August.

Depends very much on how many hours you like to cruise for in a day. Some think an hour is enough, some go for 12.

The Cave Houses at Kinver Edge are good. National Trust though so will cost some money if you're not a member.