JamesWoolcock

Yes, and we go to listen to it at the Nelson.

On the T&M, south of Trentham, they've now started to post pulled stoppages after the ones in Stone just went to dust. Not many left to cancel now. Buy they still managed to deliver two pumps by truck, a contractors workboat and a tug on Monday, the day of the cancelled work, and a carpenter yesterday, Wednesday. What on earth is going on?

There's not a lot you can't sort with enough steel and money to match.

The 'pump house' is infact the Chester Weir fish trap for recording and tagging migrating salmon and sea trout!

A definite NO three years ago with bother at the lock with local kids. Would recommend Granary Wharf. Belongs to the surrounding commercial estate who don't care too much about over staying if you ask. Looks like CRT because they installed the moorings. Recommended pub: The Grove in Back Row. A great but quite expensive city.

Brentford anyone, or have I missed summut?

Hey ho!!

Mr Biffa took my old microwave from the rubbish cupboard at Cambrian House (CRT Offices) in Birmingham.

And me too. And I expect a few on here have also, but not everyone.

The Bargee, tonight 13th November on Talking Pictures Ch81, 6.50 - 9pm.

Nor mine!

Heading downstream on the Thames on the way to the HNBC gathering at Woking on the Basingstoke Canal in 2016, two of us (Lister FR3 & Petter PD2) slid into a crowded lock to be instructed " You two gentlemen leave your engines running please" as everyone else turned their's off. Asked why, he said "We don't get to hear anything nice much these days" casting a glance at the now silenced lock full of modern 'buzzers'. I thanked him and said that this was probably his lucky week, knowing that there were more of us to come.

And me at Brandwood a few months ago. The arrogant lady steerer couldn't have cared less about my protestations.

I think you can be assured that the two skippers had discussed this first!

Richard Cox once told me that he'd met one in Blisworth while skippering a trip boat. He said he pushed it back out to the immense delight of his passengers.

Sorry typo, yes It has, or at least mine has a small flap on the side with not one, but two (!) aerial sockets. That is what is needed to get the signal into your boat using an aerial and cable. A d yes it's 12v rechargeable.

Well, I'm sorry but that's what I have and that's what works. I have phone on 3 too and the aerial is magnetic and 3inches high. You might have to search ebay for an E55573. This setup runs my laptop and I make phone calls through WiFi and all inside with the hatches closed. The ariel feed is under a side hatch but a mushroom ventilator would do just as well.

Hi I use the following and have very, very few problems: Internet provider: 3 Mifi: Huawei E55573 with external aerial socket and connecting cable from Co-Star (www.co-star.co.uk) between the two. Mifi located in small but convenient porthole. Job done. Hi I use the following and have very, very few problems: Internet provider: 3 Mifi: Huawei E55573 with external aerial socket and connecting cable from Co-Star (www.co-star.co.uk) between the two. Mifi located in small but convenient porthole. Job done.

I have a Kabola Old Dutch with which I has a running battle with for years with it not burning properly, sooting up and in high winds, blowing out. Then I bought a second length of flue pipe taking the height above the cabin top to about 45inches. Now obviously I can't go cruising with this up, so I have a short pipe too, but the sooting is hugely reduced, I get a blue flame until I turn up the fuel supply, which is very rarely needed, and it no longer blows out.

A great piece of British journalism!

If in Marple, look out the Samuel Oldknow in Market Street. A micropub which is like a proper pub and not a converted shop, which of course it is! Just wonderful.

Oh yes, give him a call! Have you tried using a phone in a tunnel? And we were both single handed but thanks for the advice, especially about me checking other boats lights. I can see that going down well at places like Harecastle and Foulridge where you tend to form a queue!

Quite recently i came through Netherton with a good boating buddy following but with his LED light show pointing straight ahead. It was the worst trip Ive ever had through there dazzled by his bright light reflecting off my stove pipe bands on my extreme left and the engine pipe in front. He should have checked his light before he went in, I do, and I shouldn't have polished my brass.

As I understand it, Sam Springer bought an old road roller for this purpose, having laid a flat concrete bed in the yard over which to roll it. And gasometers were invariably built of boilerplate! Quality indeed.