Wanted

Good luck Stan, inspired by your adventure!

Bit modern Tim? I’d have you down as a wax drum kinda guy...

Phone, Spotify, Bluetooth dongle, 3 minirigs and a minirig sub, made in Bristol by my mate Tom.

In the same postcode as Palmers but a few miles away is Hall & Woodhouse, or Wooden whorehouse as we used to call it as kids. Tanglefoot is an acceptable ale but the rest is shite if you ask me, growing up so close to it made it quite hard to find anything else. Also, the fursty ferret they did was so strong in peach flavour to begin with we had to change the lines in the pub I used to work in to get ride of the taste. For me Timmy Taylor’s Landlord every time (I think we might agree on something?)

ESB sessions in the Fox, oh how I wish I could remember those days... My wife used to work behind the bar of the Mawson Arms, which is attached to the brewery. Many a night she would abandon her bicycle for a taxi instead. Nobody seemed to pay for anything and staff were encouraged to drink loads!

Ah, erm, well actually the guy who does the I’s is off sick and union rules mean that I can’t touch it....

I agree and in the spirit of socialism together we shall change it! Solidarity comrade

I was living on a leisure mooring at the time, wanted to at least try and make it look like we weren’t blagging it!

That’s a great story. Thanks for sharing. The stretch between the flight and Brentford is a lovely bit, in fact my Son’s Birth certificate states his Birth address as ‘Between lock 100 and lock 97 of the GU Canal’ proud of that!

I’m pretty sure that Bourgeois can be used as a noun or adjective, but happy to be corrected... unless it’s by the stinking bosses, they can do one... if the tap tap is out for maintainance that’s good and even better if it’s going to be joined by more facilities. Maybe one day we can finish the job and link it to the Thames... good use of that big school playing field right?

So word is that the water point at the slough basin has been turned off by the CRT. They claim lack of use. I would argue that if A) if more were done re dredging then more would come down there B ) where was the consultation C) what cost is there to an under used tap? I feel for those that do make the mission down the arm and worry that this trend for use it or loose it will rapidly spiral and lend itself to subjective opinions leading to perminant changes that effect boaters.

Shout up for the Hanwell Flight. When you’ve been hoofing it from town and through bulls bridge, the flight is some welcome London Greenery. Oh, and a pint of Timmy Taylor’s in the Fox at the bottom is a win as well! Not my pic

I don’t care about other people’s money or lifestyle as long as it doesn’t celebrate the pointless death of a creature that won’t be used for food etc. You claim not to get worked up too much about the killing of a fox by hounds and yet are acting pretty worked up on here telling us how not bovvered you are.

Not in my name! (Dorset lad, Grandparents we’re farmers, hated the hunt and all it stood for)