Victor Vectis

Nice pictures! Thanks for putting them up SAM Ryde IOW ETA I'll be heading that way myself in a few weeks time but with 45 or so Year 7s and not on a boat.

They stole it from us in the enclosures. Bring back the diggers! SAM Ryde IOW

Excellent choice!! Even if it isn't the nearest pub to the canal. SAM Ryde IOW

Is this from the ancient verb 'to bunt'? What does it mean Suggestions please............... SAM Ryde IOW

I'm a bit concerned about this, are locking filler caps available? SAM Ryde IOW

I love it! Spent far too much time today floating my virtual boat around the BCN I reckon there could be a market for a computer game based on something like this! However, could you explain how points are worked out, please? I've been teaching Year 8 set 4 maths this year and I think they've got to me We were hoping to enter the challenge this year but circs seem to be against us, ie 1) We haven't quite bought the boat yet. 2) Said boat is on the Llangollen, pointing uphill. 3) One has, alas, to work for a living in order to support boat buying, beer drinking and steam engineing habits. And, 4) We live on the Isle of Wight. Perhaps next year..............? SAM Ryde IOW BTW Has anyone else discovered Tesco's American Double IPA? It's brewed by Brewdog, a tweak on their 'Paradox' apparently. It's the nicest bottled beer I have come across in a long time

I thought boats were self levelling! SAM Ryde IOW Who might well be on his, sorry our, very own boat by this time next week

Too busy drinking beer to snog anybody SAM BTW Hope you are feeling less curtainish about things this morning.

I took a wander along the Thames from Richmond to Brentford earlier in the week. I came across The Town Wharf at Isleworth, just by the ait. I wasn't going to stop but took a look inside, just to see what beer they sold. What a surprise......Sam Smith's!! An even bigger surprise was the price, £2.11 for a pint of Old Brewery Bitter!! ETA: Cheaper than McSpoons SAM Ryde IOW

You haven't been watching the tele have you,...........................chief?

The supermarket at the roundabout NW of the bridge is the NISA version of Waitrose. We were there back in February and were most impressed. SAM Ryde IOW

Good luck comrade. We are in the process of buying a boat and the thought of leaving something costing the equivalent of 25 months take home pay in a ditch in the middle of nowhere is quite disturbing! SAM ETA BTW I've a pic taken on saturday that I thought you might like but I can't seem to see how to post it

Good A'noon Boys and Girls. Apologies for having reverted to lurker mode for the past month or so but I've been busy doing boring things like working for a living and far more interesting things like buying a boat and watching UK Uncut having fun at F&M last saturday afternoon! Thanks for the good wishes for Libby, the injured party. She is on the mend but won't be 100% for quite a while and its still not certain if she will keep the top joint of that finger. Don't worry about the black humour, I'm used to it. I used to earn a living as a face worker at Hatfield Colliery. Plenty of black humour at the bottom of that particular 'ole. As to how the accident happened it went something like this......... Libby had dropped me off to work the lock, Debdale on the S&W, and was steering the boat. We were heading towards Kidderminster and the lock is approached by a right hand bend from that direction. While the lock was filling the boat had drifted over to the offside and she put the tiller over to the left to bring the nose of the boat over to the right. She was looking forward to see where the front was going without realising that the stern had moved towards the bank where there was a tree stump sticking out at just the 'wrong' height. Her hand got caught in the argument between that stump and the tiller handle. The boat was hardly moving but there is a lot of momentum in a 58' narrowboat. If, reading this, you are thinking "How could anyone have been so stupid" please don't. I'm realating this in a spirit of read, mark and DONT do likewise. Any news on the bloke in Liverpool? SAM

Wow! I was told that there was an efficient bush telegraph on the canals but I didn't realise it was this efficient, Brum to L'pool in 2 days. I reckon the rumour is about the accident that occured to my wife on tuesday morning at Debdale Lock on the Staffs & Worcs. To cut a long story short she broke the 3rd metacarpel, left hand and more seriously suffered a comminuted open fracture of her ring finger. She was operated on yesterday morning, her finger end being reconstructed, and is in the QE Hospital, B'ham until monday morning at least. The only people in the know, apart from friends and family, are the emergency services and medical people, the hire company and a taxi driver in B'ham who turned out to be a boater. So how did the story get to L'pool? Although this has rather spoilt our holiday we are both keen to go boating again. SAM, Ryde, IOW I've been lurking for a while but this is my first post, so a big HELLO to you all out there