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I run out hose by the side of the speed hump to minimise any damage to the hose or problems to traffic. There is also a height barrier there. On one visit a walker managed to walk straight into it badly cutting his forehead. Don't ask me how but he did leave with one of our handkerchiefs pressed to his head!

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Used to be water inside the building. Just a tap on the wall with the usual screw connection. Needed a long hose to go out of the building, across the road to the boat. When we were last there some visitors just pulled up between the pontoon and the brick edge and used the water there. If the letting us now arranged through Savilles I assume it's now professional. When it was looked after by Merryhill office it was all rather haphazard.

The kinky Lock is only a problem if there is a stream running as the EA tend to open the Sluice gate nearest the Lock so pushing you around as you enter.

St Ives not a problem. We're 60 X10 and pass through regularly. Go on a summer weekend and the volunteers will do the work for you.

Sorry was sure I'd read £25. Just looked it up, it's £20 currently.

Yes, agree with Alan. The £25 mooring fee should encompass all that with the electricity as an 'extra'. With most boats cooking on gas and many now with lithium battery banks and lots of solar they might not want to pay for electricity they're never going to use.

When we spent the winter there the 5 month bit was unofficial so we booked 1 November to 1 March. They accepted booking but when I contacted Wigan to arrange passage they said we couldn't as Link closed. A big argument which ended up with Sally Ash, remember her, saying if you want to go then you can. In the event a closure ran over so we couldn't leave until much later, Grand National Day actually. And no extra charged As for the electric, it was free when we were there despite me buying £100 of cards at Wigan. I've still got those unused. We are a gas free boat so cook electric but even so only get to £7 some days so not good value for most boats now. OK if you're only staying for a week but makes an expensive winter mooring especially if you compare with Llangollen where electric still included. I don't really know why they close the Link for 5 months. It can't be a maintenance issue and given enough notice I'm sure enough volunteers could be arranged, not that there's anything difficult about it. Liverpool for Christmas!

But only for a complete 5 month period.

When we took a winter mooring in Salthouse Dock we ordered a pallet of Excel from the nearest coal merchant. That came in 10 kg bags. A lot of bags that had to be carried down the steps to the pontoons.

Both walked up to Mow Cop before arthritis kicked in which rules Dinas Bran out. Bugsworth Basin and walk up the incline. Denver Sluice Complex. Liverpool Docks. Prickwillow Engine Museum. (If only to see the 1947 flood mark) Ripon. Minster, Workhouse, Old Court House, Fountains Abbey. Standedge. Anglesey Basin. And I second Mjg's list as I've done all them and passed through three of those locks before disused.

I thought that this: All Gold licences run from 1 January and expire on 31 December. If you have not previously held a gold licence, you may be eligible for a part year licence. If you have previously held a Gold licence then your licence will be required to start on 1 January 2023. Meant you can start a Gold licence at any time and pay pro rata.

Sure they're not faded orange? A caravanning neighbour tells me that many sites don't allow blue cables as they don't show up in grass and so are a trip hazard.

Join this. And try to find another boat to buddy up with.

We're. In Hartford too. D27. There's a widebeam moored on the Waites although the water there was over the first wall. There's been another widebeam for some time at St Neots who just moved between the 3 mooring spots so he's probably on the pontoon there. The level has been dropping slowly over the last few days but last night by 10 or 12 inches.

If you are going to overstay then the next visitor mooring upstream, immediately down from the bridge, has a water tap.

5 weeks from the CPO being confirmed to the canal opening to build the new channel and lock. Though I doubt the walkway was fitted until much later.

If you zoom in on the left of the second photo the visitor mooring pontoons are still in place. There was a photo on Facebook a couple of days ago showing the Torksey pontoon with a Dutch barge moored/a marooned.

You might find one in Ely but they are like hens teeth. Isleham is possible. Also look at Fenland Moorings, Littleport Boat Haven, Streatham, Lazy Otter, Upware and Fish & Duck. On the St Ives Great Ouse you gave Westview Marina, currently flooded, Hartford, Buckden and Huntingdon Boat Haven.

Huntingdon yesterday so higher now. Portholme Meadow in distance always floods. Narrowboat is on the Visitor Moorings with a live aboard who says he's fine.

Wasn't like that last I moored there.

St Ives on Wednesday night. Will have risen more now. The ester is just lapping over the Quayside. Normally the roof if that narrowboat would be level with the Quay. That's the navigation arch.

And look at the flow rate This is ours on the Great Ouse. Normal summer rate around 3 cumecs.

Burst it's banks? Surely overtopped.