Rob-M

Isn't that a half day, we do Red Bull to Middlewich in a day 😀

Our boat has been through the BSS numerous times with different examiners and always passed without any signs for gas or fuel cutoffs. Only thing it has failed on was an out of date fire extinguisher.

Wouldn't be the same if there isn't a bit of rain over the challenge weekend.

Can't remember which one, you were on your way down. Had the Farmers Bridge experience when the bottom lock by-wash was blocked and totally flooded the towpath. Really annoyed those going to work as it was early morning and there was no visible sign of where the waters edge was so nobody was walking up between the locks.

What can happen when water doesn't run over the bottom gates and the bywash is blocked. This was a few years ago on the Tardebigge flight.

Our favourite is Proven Pizza. It is on the road that runs across the canal at Lock 29 just up from the lock.

Beer is generally all right but we went with friends for food and three of the four meals were not even up to pub grub standard. The next time we went out we drove to Rugeley instead and had a cracking meal in La Terrazza.

Hope you have a better meal in the Clifford Arms than the one we had last year. It was very poor quality and it isn't somewhere we will return to for food.

Birmingham level sounds like as good a place as any as there is quite a bit of cruising without any locks and only three up to the Wolverhampton level for Tipton.

As long as your TV is a smart TV or has a TV streaming device attached and is connected to your home router via wired or wireless then you can stream content over your internet connection to your TV.

They need to slow down though, I'm sure they implied they were going to get to Harecastle from Windmill End in half a day.

This one...?

I only use streaming over the internet on the boat, much easier than repositioning and aerial or sat dish every day. Cost £20 a month for unlimited data whilst on the boat.

Plenty of water running in at Icknield Port today.

I think the IPA I've been drinking tonight was 4.8%.