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Give that dog a medal. ?

Glad you got back ok, stay safe.

Hope your journey went smoothly. Did you manage to safely get back onboard?

Only if what they’re looking for is going up and down the flight!!

There have now been 3 police incidents on the W&B in the last week or so. All announced in advance. Are they conducting training sessions for their search team? If so I hope they are social distancing! https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/notices/17456-between-locks-39-and-43 https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/notices/17444-between-locks-22-and-23 https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/notices/17441-between-lock-57-and-lock-58

You make no mention of the need to sell. They are more likely to move areas early in their lives as they change jobs. Or up-size if they start a family. This becomes difficult in negative equity, as they cannot discharge the mortgage on the sale of their house. Some lenders will actually block sales. The young buyer then often ends up with a bigger debt. Young people are not thinking of their home as an investment. Surely you remember the excitement of buying your first home? We had a big mortgage and would have never been able to set up our business, employing staff for 30 years if we had been crippled by debt in our 20’s.

Sadly if your wish comes true and prices crash, you will leave many hardworking families in negative equity. What about younger people who have managed to buy their first home? How would you then help them?

We saw Contagion at the cinema. A scary film and from memory (it was 2011) the virus was even more virulent and could be caught with one touch.

Why what’s wrong with doing it the old fashioned way?

I might just get a T-shirt printed up with that message. I still miss Brucie on a Saturday night. Generation Game or Strictly.

Remember it’s easy to leave the marina, do the work moored on the towpath nearby and then go back to your berth.

I could recommend the White Bear Marina at Adlington just north of Wigan. We left the boat there for a week last summer and found it well organised and everyone very friendly. They have residential moorings available and it’s 19 miles from Haydock, if that’s not too far for you.

Then my mild mannered nature would prevail and they would only be struck off the GMC register!! Hopefully however they would have only borrowed it, left a note, then returned it with a bottle of wine for my daughter!!!

There are services above Meadow Lane Lock on the Nottingham Canal, so maybe he’s on his way back from filling/emptying.

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Lead is too expensive to waste on scrotes. Why not use a gibbet? It is reusable and more environmentally friendly.

To steal from outside a hospital is as low as it gets. My younger daughter studied at the QMC. If they’d stolen her bike, I would have been delighted to meet them for the sentencing. I’m normally mild mannered, but might make an exception.

Let’s hope they receive a suitably strong punishment.

Unless you start a rumour that the water there has special healing powers. ?

Not if you eat there in the future. The TripAdvisor ratings are very good.

It reminds me of the equally colourful Aqueduct Inn at Froncysyllte, Llangollen.

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Likewise we had a 1/6 share in an Ownerships boat and there was no problem with night cruising. After Allen died, we took over running the boat and the syndicate dropped from 12 to 10 shares so our 1/6 became 1/5. We sold up 6 years ago when we bought our own boat.

Why multi ownership boats?

I hope they arrive safely to help you stave off dehydration!!