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IanD

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  3. Two world-class football clubs eh? Sounds like a good reason to stay away to me... 😉
  4. It won't put me off, it's just that last time we did the Caldon we were only intending to stay at the Black Lion overnight but for some reason our departure got delayed by a day... 😉
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  6. That's a shame, it used to be great. Wonder if it'll ever get back to how it was? 😞
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  9. I'll ask again -- any recent feedback on the Black Lion? (the Caldon's on our list of possibles for this year)
  10. Also a hydrofoil ferry is one of the best possible shipping uses for electric power, because they're far more efficient than displacement vessels, in terms of total energy used for a trip and required battery size as well as being faster.
  11. True, but there's probably still information around in lots of places -- especially newspaper back issues or articles, if they still exist, but also some web pages -- that predates Tuel Lane (and was never updated) which still says they're the tallest.
  12. 'twas ever thus, except in the old days you had to go to a library and borrow a book on specialist subjects if you wanted more detail and accuracy than TV could offer -- always assuming the library had one (they often didn't) or could get one in on inter-library loan (they often couldn't)... 😞 If you can sort the gold from the dross, there's a *huge* amount of good material out there nowadays -- videos and reading -- on almost anything you can think of, no matter how obscure or specialised -- and it's much easier to access this material than it used to be, thanks to the internet. Unfortunately there's also a massive swamp of complete cr*p -- which often looks the slickest! -- posted by people who either don't understand what they're talking about or are being deliberately misleading to promote their own interests... 😞
  13. The Black Lion at Consall Forge used to be absolutely splended, chickens and all, but they had a bad fire a couple of years back and AFAIK have not completely reopened, at least for the excellent food they used to do as well -- I presume the beer is as good as ever, anyone been recently to confirm what it's like now?
  14. Of course a discussion was expected, but some of the complaints just don't make sense given that it was a general interest TV programme about the canals not an in-depth online tutorial for students studying industrial archaeology... 😉
  15. Strawman argument again... 😉 What I said was that the programme is aimed at the 50+million people in the UK who don't live on or holiday on the canals or know much about them, not the 50000 or so people who do, some of who post on CWDF. Just like CART funding and priorities. Is this really so hard to understand?
  16. I really don't see why you're getting your knickers in a twist about this -- and I don't think it was a sterrible as you're making out. You're not the intended audience, and neither am I, and neither is anyone else on CWDF -- and the same applies to pretty much every programme on the TV about canals, with the possible exception of Robbie's "Cruising the Cut" -- which people on here still nitpicked about... 😞 "It's almost as if the programme makers were trying to come up with easy-watching TV for watchers after undemanding entertainment requiring no familiarity with the subject. " is a good summary, and I think it was just that. If that's not what you're looking for, don't watch it 🙂
  17. Welcome to the media world of today, especially broadcasting but also large parts of the press... 😞 However in fact the programme in question was (mostly) correct, not "twaddle" -- apart from the obvious (to CWDF posters) errors being nitpicked about -- and I would guess most non-canal people would have found it interesting and informative. Which is rather the point of making it, isn't it?
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  19. But it *shouldn't* do if it uses correspondingly less gas, especially since all the gas is fossil fuel and getting on for half UK electricity now comes from renewable sources. If the EPC doesn't take this into account, it's out-of-date and fundamentally flawed... 😞
  20. That was exactly my point -- people on here complaining about either detail errors or it being "dumbed-down" are entirely missing the point, which is that *nobody* on CWDF is the intended audience... 😉 The same is true for pretty much any documentary on TV, to anyone knowledgeable about the field (0.01% of the audience?) they almost always gloss over the detail (or get it wrong) and present an over-simplified picture -- and this is true regardless of the subject, because broadcasting is aimed at the wider audience, the fact that the name includes "broad" should be a clue... 🙂 If you want something detailed and accurate, read a specialist book (or online articles) on the subject written by an expert in their field and targeted at a knowledgeable and interested (but small!) audience -- or discuss the subject on a forum fill of similarly interested people... 😉
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  23. For a program aimed at Joe Public not canal nerds, I didn't think it was too bad at all...
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  25. Kind of greeny-yellow, according to my son...
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