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Annoyingly, the yellow bags covering broken paddles state ‘this item is under repair’. It’s not ‘under repair’ it’s broken!

It is, yes. Only issues have been down to operator error! Hoping to actually get out for a couple of weeks in September 🙂

There are 2 light switches in the bedroom but I have to get out of bed to switch the lights on or off! 😱

Well, we really appreciated it at the time and continue to do so 10 years later. After all this time our only niggle is that the bedroom light switch is in the wrong place- no idea how that happened!

Sorry to read this - you did a good thing offering him a home x

Why is it funny that people might find this avatar demeaning @Athy? It seems that I am not on my own in finding it inappropriate.

Given that the landlady thought it appropriate to post that they were in the pub on Facebook, I’m guessing that they won’t be going back!

I think we met him at Meaford locks perhaps? He was in a sleeping bag, with headphones on but awake. As I walked past him I said ‘Are you ok there?’, he said he was and I carried on walking to the next lock. As OH passed him on the boat he also asked him if he was ok. I imagine he was trying to listen to some music or interesting radio programme, thinking ‘I would be fine if people would stop asking me whether I’m ok!’

If you are near enough to visit local shops or pubs you could perhaps mention him. He may be a local character, known to all as a bit eccentric but no harm meant. There used to be a chap who went round our 3 local pubs selling raffle tickets for a non-existent raffle. All locals knew just to say ‘No thank you, Michael, not today.’ Visitors were not wise to him and often bought tickets just to get rid of him. He’d then toddle off happily to the bookies...