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but CRT are inventing new requirements: mooring restrictions from 14 days to 2 days or whatever, wherever? surcharges for those without a home mooring?

True, I threw it in as a devil’s argument, kind of, perhaps having to obtain some sort of helm certificate would put off plenty of fly by night boat owners, so how can one demonstrate they will use the boat bona fide?

Ok, let’s put it another way, why shouldn't ALL boat owners have some sort of helms certificate?

ok, fair enough, it was only a suggestion, and you’ve pissed on it, and of course it’s unreasonable apologises for trying to take the same old same old conversation out of its loop, if your happy in the loop, stay in it, why are you hiding behind rules when CRT are readily changing them?

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Would it be simple enough to begin with requiring some sort of helm certificate as a starter? (something I’ve been against but times they are a changing)

yes, mine too, but with CRT making current changes, as in the new surcharges, perhaps CRT could increase their creativity and come up with some idea how to keep a check on things rather than just take the money. 🤷‍♀️

👍agreed, which leads me to ask perhaps CRT should/could be more discerning who they give a licence to? are CRT just taking easy money with a license fee without making some assurance the boater is able (or willing) to comply with the 14 day rule?

No not cheap, but a nice treat though, I like the bread in the farm shop too,

It’s ok ain’t it. Im happy with a pint of Bass, so Im fine with it on a sunny day, sitting by the canal, and there’s a good butcher down the road

don’t get me wrong, I don’t dislike posh, I can do posh 👍

Yes I like them too, for me they’re what fall in to the posh and fancy butcher shop category, where they have lots of different flavoured stuff and maybe their own trays of different recipes of marinated meats, the butcher’s counter at Great Haywood Farm Shop is another example and I like that too, but too much choice confuses me and my favourite of favourites has to be the counter at the back of Todmorden’s in door market, on the right, nothing fancy but high quality, most of their stuff is kept in their walk in fridge and bought out to cut to size in front of you, and for Black Pudding the butcher in Whaley Bridge up the hill opposite the CoOp I’ll make a point of looking for the butcher’s in Atherstone next time I pass, Penkridge has a fine butcher too, good for pies and samosas 🤤

Yes, I see that now

It’s possible you meant to provide this link https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/26/a-broad-view-of-canal-boat-licence-fees your’s links back to another article you posted before eta: oh no my mistake sorry, you posted the whole of the article,

price of diesel might be a shocker? It was the most expensive I bought last year. anyway, good luck there 👍 they seemed very nice people.

Will it have made a difference having been tested whilst moored? With a proper flow with the boat moving it might not be much of an issue? It’s kind of what happens with my boat anyway. 🤷‍♀️

As it happened when I passed back through this lock they had divers fixing a ground paddle, While waiting I had a chat to the other workers and I asked about the stop planks, they said it’s a nightmare pushing the planks down with rods, (The lock here at Ware is the responsibility of the Environmental Agency and Little to do with CRT)

I’ve drank out of pint glasses with more scratches than that 👍

Bruges is lovely. used to tour around Belgium on my motorbike visit the the Groeninge Museum if you get the chance. lots of well known medieval paintings,

the railways have their own police force, the British Transport Police, therefore they have some clout when dealing with the scrotes. The canals once had police too when they were commercial? Is it Stoke Bruerne that has an old wooden sign warning miscreants they’d be shipped to Australia? Today’s sign would be for Rwanda.

yes it’s our Aquaduct again

Thing with super duper systems is they tend to fail on a regular basis, look at the Anderton Lift as an example, and when they fail the specialists have to be called in at great expense, and the super duper system always needs an upgrade, perhaps a bell on either end of a 3 mile piece of string would be fine,

Perhaps some of the 2% could go towards recommissioning the pill boxes, CRT have an opportunity here to apply for funding and lease out back to the M.O.D. we’ve had this one on another thread, bonus point if you remember where it is?

did you go for a pint? If you did how is the pub under new management?

It’s nothing compared to what keeps getting chucked at that there Anderton Lift ..just don’t mention Blue Signs