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Jim Riley

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  1. That's more fun than squabbling. I wish I was flexible enough to eat my nuts. The Pilates is helping.
  2. Is that the feed control at Warland Gate, near the swing bridge? My mooring is in that pound.
  3. Who's asking you, I was addressing your carer😂
  4. Certainly not, I'd give people the opportunity. A bit like putting someone in a bucket harness and hoicking them up in the air, or it taking 3 people to help someone experience tightrope walking. By your reasoning, giving them a special set of wheels on a chair is equally patronising. Do you take sugar?
  5. All genders? Men are from Mars, Women from Venus, the other genders from Uranus. New post merged...edit. There's an idea going around that someone in a wheelchair is useless, only to be pushed on and off the boat. Just maybe, they might like to try doing a bit more, whatever they are capable of trying or doing. Taller bollards assist with this. Having worked with people with disabilities they know what they might like to try or be capable of, they may need support and encouragement. Or not, let them get on with it.
  6. On the subject of accessibility, Salter Hebble Guillotine has instructions in Braille. Not sure how that could be used safely by a blind person, how would they know when to hit the emergency stop etc. How does that work then, waterpoints are highly visible but can still be moored on for days. The trick would be to make them Entitled Idiot proof.
  7. Why is Airbnb relevant, you are hiring out your.boat for short term lets Shirley. Airbnb is just the advert, you manage it yourself? Has Airbnb been specifically excluded?
  8. Nah, it's been changed to Pints now😂
  9. A member of the Non Boating Travel Agents perchance, has to stay near work?
  10. Certainly there's a new spillway on Chelburn, just above Summit West, not been by the upper ones for a while.
  11. Not enough water in the broad uplands though, in summer anyway. Whats needed is a few reservoirs around the summit level😉
  12. My initial email told them their info was the subject of much ridicule on a discussion forum.
  13. Latest email back regarding the misinformation, looks like it's being thought about Good morning, Having reviewed your original email and with the correct information to hand I can fully understand your concerns regarding the published information. I have sent over a request to our Web Content team asking for the restricted and unrestricted widths to be published with more clarity and this will be completed in due course. Thank you for raising this with us, i'm sure it will prove very helpful to boaters going forward.
  14. What ticks on a wall? 'ticky paper. Blame my Dad for that one.
  15. Yeh right, it would be worse than a muddy event field, sinking in up to where one's knees used to be! Now now, you'll get the Yorkshire stiltwalkers all excited...
  16. Throw a dog in too, speed up the process.
  17. Thanks Alan, blatantly stolen to post on Rochdale Canal FB groups. With the headline obvs. Giggle! I may well be one of the last people to pay for a ticket to traverse Rochdale Canal Summit. I lived in Smithybridge, in 1983 2 mates and I set off to Sowerby in a Canadian canoe and a kayak, I'd made folding trolleys with pram wheels, we had to portage not just round the locks but along whole dry stretches, the MSC Job Creation Scheme was doing its stuff. One of my mates was a supervisor on the scheme - got me the wellies and donkey jacket! As we got to the Summit West Lock with it's pretty lock house, still owned by Rochdale Canal Co, the little old lady lockie came out and demanded payment, maybe a 50p or something, it wasn't much, we got a couple of little tickets. The trip took 4 days, an overnight stay each way in the wood below Shaw Wood Rd, one night in a field near the end at Sowerby.
  18. I have 3 of the old planks to prove it, awaiting a round tuit to make a garden bench.
  19. Well, there's been a link in my profile for absolutely yonks. Jim awaits knock on door from Mod.
  20. You haven't met my better half!!!! How does the percentage of female posters compare to the percentage of female members?
  21. On the other hand... https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160303-the-surprising-benefits-of-swearing I see that twat has been defined as a reference to female genitalia, that isn't it's only meaning, the original, immsmr, is to hit, as in "he twatted me on the neb". This was then transmuted by it's use to denote a successful encounter with a female as in "a Hit or score", from there to describing the genitalia. Good there is no ban on Twunt though eh?
  22. Put the big Rs in the passenger seat, redistribution.😉
  23. Always a pigging pain when that happens. My trolling engine is being creative tonight.
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