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Must admit I kind of liked it, if I didn’t think too much about it. I’m sure me mom in care home would have loved it. It ticked the boxes didn’t it, a shot of the Pontycyllte and a geezer with a bowler hat. No mention of Tipton though!! I don’t think the BCN got a mention at all did it? 😃

Just googled and yea that seems to be the one. Although it looks like it’s had a make over and poshed up a bit since we went in. I’ve a vague memory of it being a pub that was one that was reluctant to open, the type of pub that lets you sit in the semi dark with the lights off. And the person behind the bar disappears for ages while you wait to be served. And it’s deadly silent because there’s no one else in. But it’s awhile ago, maybe 8 years? I could be getting me pubs mixed up mind. I remember liking it anyway. Another thing I can’t remember are the locks, other than the staircase of course. But I remember the River bit was lovely. eta: remember getting through Froghall Tunnel with room to spare.

It is a lovely canal and I’m surprised I’ve never revisited. In order to take me back I never did the bit to Leek. As all have said the pub at the end is good. Up in my top 10. A week lost in there with Dmr. And I think it was Milton where I found a really good butcher. The type of place that’ll ask you how thick you want the bacon sliced. I imagine they’re no longer there. and there’s a decent pub there too, I remember quite a bend with a winding hole and a pub just there. Can’t remember the name. But I’m sure I remember it for the Bass. Dmr might remind me.

Cor blimey,!! That’s gone up since last summer, Cant remember if it’s this side of the loop or the other but there’s a lot of rings been put in for mooring

How can one recommend a programme and not expect a discussion and critique?

Perhaps some TV is aimed at the many folk who have lost their marbles and are living in care homes. maybe Chanel 5 should be renamed the Care Home Channel

😂😂 👍

I’m tempted to side with your friend 😃

It’s good fun spotting them, Peaky Blinder’s has some good background blunders, and there’s some historical dramas or films that will purposely put in contemporary references/images/objects, I think it was Derek Jarman who was was well known for doing it when directing his films but what we had on TV last night was not supposed to be a drama but fact, aside from that (as pointed out earlier in the thread) how can miss naming James Brindley as John Brindley have got passed the editing?

mmm…so any old nonsense is ok because only .01% know it’s twaddle whilst the other 99.99% are taken in by it, that’s ok then 👍

Oh and I think the one historian was daft enough to model themselves on Clunk

Watched it and thought 🤷‍♀️reasonable enough 3 things stuck out; 1 I’m English but the pronunciation of Llangollen and Pontycyllte made me cringe, 2 I’ve forgot, 3 comparing live aboards to keeping the traditions of living like boating families of old, utter nonsense.

Dr Mengele was it?

I’ll have a butchers when I get in,

How else can you put a few (several?) centuries of canals into 20mins? Philomena Cunk’s ace by the way 👍

Yes, of course he’d have known that of course, I obviously underestimate him, also thinking about it he’d have revealed his location to the filth by being the only one with a big pump on the side of his tree

do you think Robin Hood would have stopped chopping down his neighbours’ trees to heat his own tree if the council had given him a grant for heat pump?

as a rule I tend not to kill anything, the spiders get a free run on the boat ‘cause they kill the flies, thing with a trap how can you guarantee it’ll kill something out right ? and the victim ain’t gonna die an agonisingly slow death, and then you got deal with the mess, I used to go out shooting rabbits till I realised I was maiming more than I was killing. used to live on a farm and farmer would put down poison, killed the rats ok but then they rotted and the smell took a few weeks to a month to disappear, mind with the dogs that’d rolled in badger and fox shit one got used to the awful smells

Someone has a leaky squirrel that needs snuffing out

Saw a dead pigeon floating in its back with its legs up in the air today, that weren’t your doing was it? yesterday it was a dead rabbit I passed, and a few days before there was a dead dear, is there no stopping you?

dunno it’s always too bright I have to have me eyes shut

None of us have to look if we don’t want to, but if it encourages people to get out and boat it’s all good stuff, here’s a photo from a year ago, under Spaghetti Junction.

I’m, Red green brown colour blind, the green of a navigation light to me appears towards white as does the green of a traffic light, so I easily see the difference between the red and green, Im more likely to get the green and white lights mixed, now if you took a single poppy and placed it on a nicely kept lawn I’d not be able to find it, Red apples in trees is another loss, but green apples in trees I see because I see the different greens and looking up at the stars is a loss on me, colour wise, it’s all very odd but really very interesting,

good news; https://blabbermouth.net/news/watch-struggle-to-shift-black-sabbath-bench-proves-it-really-is-heavy-metal

The etchings have gone, I wonder if it’s been vandalised and they’ve had to remove them?