Bewildered

Maybe it’s something to do with the iPhone app rather than a website on a pc

Currently we are moored on the North Oxford near Brinklow, about 200 yards behind our boat is a car park in a wooded area, I suspect that people in my area participate in dogging, doesn’t mean I want to join in because others are doing it ?

Lately I’ve been getting A Netflix recommendation of what people in my area have been watching. Exactly what connection to my viewing preferences it has I am at a total loss to explain because I don’t give a damn what other people are watching

I was just wondering if the BW watermate key is perhaps the most common Yale type key in existence? I can’t think of another cut key held by so many people, I await correction ?

Sounds like a good reason not to upgrade to iOS 13 then. My phone works perfectly well on iOS 12.4, I can’t see the point of fixing what ain’t broke

There are plenty of places on the North Oxford where meeting an oncoming Narrowboat is a challenge, certainly wouldn’t want to meet an oncoming wide beam. It would be such a simple engineering project to put a set of narrows at the first bridge, thus stopping these boats from using a waterway that is unsuitable for them.

They did disappear from the store, I found them in my purchase history and reloaded them from there. I think it has something to do with the fact that they are bought and paid for and therefore held under my Apple account. Try going into your Apple account purchase history and see if you can reload them on your iPad

iPhone version is no longer available in the App Store since being bought out by RCR. I was a bit miffed about this as I had bought most of them but removed them from my phone to save memory space. When I went looking for them to reinstall I could not find them at all in the Apple store. Eventually I found them in my purchase history and they did reload from there. As far as I can tell, if you have already purchased the maps from Apple store you own them and they are obligated to keep them available, but they don’t seem to be available for new customers.

The nature of canal usage is so different now from what it was originally designed for that we, perhaps, need a campaign to have more winding holes dug. Also existing short winding holes dug out to accommodate full length boats where possible. I'm sure there are many obsticals to such a undertaking but the physical work in many places is just one day with a JCB

Interesting, the one at Clattercote is marked on my Nicholson guide but the other one isn't. Perhaps CRT should produce an official map showing which winding holes are useable and which are not

But are the winding holes not part of the original navigation?

About a week ago we left Cropredy to head north up the Claydon locks, as we past the winding hole at Clattercote (bridge 147) we noticed that it has signs that say, private no turning. I wasn’t intending to turn as my route took me past it but it made me wonder if land owners have the right to close an official turning point that is marked on the maps. I think if I had wanted to wind there I would have just done it. As far as I am concerned the winding hole and the water belong to CRT and as my boat is on the water (not their land) there is nothing the land owner can do other than put signs up and hope boaters take notice. I’m not entirely sure if I am correct here (clarification would be appreciated) but if I am correct this sign must put off a lot of boaters, especially hire boaters. So can land owners close winding holes or can they only put up signs and hope for the best? Also the winding hole at Summerton meadows is closed with a chain and a sign saying its shallow, anyone know why this is?

Had I realised it would have been nice to say hello but unfortunately I struggle to remember names, let alone tying a boat name to an individual. There are also several boats with the same names, just to make life confusing. On Saturday there were two boat moored behind me at Napton, both named Dragonfly. I half expected to wake up in the morning to find a baby dragonfly had arrived in the night. We are slightly easier to spot as there is only one boat registered with the name Karieanna

After spending most of lockdown in the Cropredy area and having to put up with all the passing canoes an kayaks from Cropredy canoe club I feel as though I’ve spent 3 months rounding Cape Horn. How can something so small disturb so much water?

Why is it even necessary to book passage? surely this isn’t down to covid; it can’t really take more than two staff members to operate the system, one at each end with no chance of transmitting it to each other.

Nature doesn't need to kill us off with brain eating Amoeba, nature has already given us canabis and alcohol for that. Brain eating Amoeba is just overkill. Nature doesn't need to double down, there must be another explanation, will have to have a beer while I ponder this one.

Met some friends for a pint in the Brasenose in Cropredy yesterday lunchtime, not very busy at all. I suspect it is only in the cities that pubs will be busy. Sadly the beer was served in plastic pint pots, perhaps this is a sensible way to stop the covid spread but we don’t need more plastic in the world and I don’t like drinking out of plastic

Dremel carving is an outdoor activity when you live on a boat due to excessive sawdust and a desire not to be beaten senseless by my better half. So today was my first attempt at whittling as it is sawdust free (wood chips easily swept up) and I can do it in the boat over wintertime