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    I read on another site that the ship blacked out before getting wedged across the canal.
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    Or two.
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    Another continuous moorer.
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    So it would seem! That doesn’t bode well for our next proposed trip in late May, which includes yet another Bank Holiday.
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    We stopped at Springwood for a pump out at the late May bank holiday weekend a couple of years ago but it was closed. Mind you, so was the pub we tried to phone for a meal on the BH Monday the next day. And the year before on the S Oxford, we tried for a meal on the early May BH and the pub was shut. Bit of a pattern here it seems.
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    Our share boat relocated from the K & A to Wigrams via Oxford in 2018. One of our owners got the boat as far as Aldermaston in late March, but then the Thames was still on red boards and had to leave it there. I was on board early May and the red boards had just finished at the very end of April. Quite a rapid passage through Reading before getting onto the Thames.
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    When we were allowed to exercise further from home, my bike ride would often take me through Ripple. i seem to remember that Clifton Cruisers near Rugby named their hire boats after towns and villages in Kent.
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    'allo, 'allo, 'allo, what's this around the propshaft?
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    If I remember correctly, the Frederick Whittingham was one of the Port of London Health Authority launches based on the Thames at Gravesend in the late sixties/early seventies. A friend of my father was the senior skipper at the base and I had quite a few trips on the craft there as a teenager. I went on board the FW when it was alongside, but never got a trip on her (him).
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    A Hard Day's Flight.
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    Or....From Hull to Etruria?
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    The Caen Hill Mutiny Beauty and the Beeston Castle.
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    Frozen In. Black to the future.
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    Die Hardstanding.
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    The hospital that I was based at did a proper blackout test of the generator once a month on a Friday. The test was for three hours so the engine got up to temperature, supplying the full site load. This was a mental health hospital, so nowhere near as onerous as an acute hospital. We did have the main computer centre for the organisation on site, but had a good UPS set up.
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    According to the credits, the drone footage is done by somebody else.
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    5x Ecofans? ?
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    If you see Domninic Cummings at a petrol station, you know lockdown is imminent!
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    And the citizens of the USA voted for one of them!
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    Would they be handy for taking your cassette up to the Elsan point?
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    Is a Telford toilet better than a Brindley bog?
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    I was on the second share boat that Cuthound mentions just a couple of weeks ago. It's a Beta 43 engine fitted 6/7 years ago and has just gone over 6,000 hours. It runs fine with no issues, but is serviced regularly. Hopefully, it has many years of life to come.
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    Or if you run out of logs!!
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    Perhaps it belonged to Del Boy's mate Denzel and it's a typo?
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    It is if you step in it!
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