newcruiser

At least 12 left at banbury rubbish point since the end of the season

January 2013 after 40 years of working and paying stamp and PAYE I found myself claiming benefit for the 1st time, utterly soul destroying, my advisor at the job centre was patronising judgemental and bloody useless! after 6 weeks I had a stupid and horrible accident on the boat that led to a huge skin graft on my left thigh and buttock with the donor site being my right thigh, the result was neither leg worked and abysmal agony for 12 weeks, I struggled to get on the boat and once on I struggled to get off, long story short this March I went back to the job centre having had no work or income since christmas, the same woman interviewed me and asked me why in a superior tone and I gave her it straight, sooner eat every 3rd day, go cold, no coal gas or diesel because of HER attitude the year before but hey you just cannot work without some sort of sustenance, fortunately my new advisor was a real bloody star and actually helped and advised, now been working 7 weeks, 6 of those at 50+ hours but got food in my cupboard, gas, diesel and bloody hope in my life again so f**k all you argumentative buggers on here, life can be really hard sometimes and them feeling it do NOT need you to knock em down, be petty tories or just plain tw@ts to make a plea for help seem like begging from the great unwashed rant over, life can be hard, this can be a great site but it can also drain the hope and life out of you

Tooley's Boatyard in Banbury will do the training on your own boat or on their day boat, sole tuition £190 or £140 each for 2 01295 272917 edited to add 1 day course 9am - 5pm

you need to make another 4 posts and then I will pm you

Tooleys do offer this service, in fact Matt did one just this afternoon! Closed Sunday, docking day monday but they are about 01295 272917, leave your number and message and he;ll call you back I'm moored at tooley's due to an accident earlier this year have been unable to cruise, they have been champions

bouncing down in Banbury, no thunder though

welcome Beaker, hope the survey turns out ok

Two weeks ago was wakened by a load of noise(!!!) outside, turned over back to sleep, last sunday noticed a 10' x 1' board on my roof with metal bands each end, shabby looking paint mostly in red, thought sod it wire brushed it vigourously, painted black, now on my roof looking pretty ok would'nt of bought one but not one to turn down a freebie (elbow grease and a little bit of one coat johnsons satin, brush already in use doing gunwales) would of been rude to dump it surely

tree, why would you let a ''tongue in cheek'' bully chase you off? that will never do, return at once

not yet, she's still blogging

according to NB Sokai's blog it was an animal feeder put there by a farmer in dispute with C&RT, Napton narrowboats managed to get through with a small loss of paint so he went to get something bigger, whilst he was gone Sokai made their break for freedom, they had been held up for 2 hours