Hudds Lad

@mrsmelly is this how their website looks to you then?

yup, you are not wrong, £120 fine to miss her penultimate week at junior school where they were doing nothing but sit and play games against the saving of near £2k to take the same hol two weeks later. it was a no brainer as they say.

Not just in some cases, and its the local authority who levy it not the school. £60 per parent, per child last time we got fined, which goes up double that if not paid within 21 days

i'll be quizzing my 14 year old daughter when she gets home from school as to why she hasn't got such a lucrative career already!

looks like they've already had one for 3 years, near 50k subscribers, so must be doing ok

indeed, very true. i think the saying "you can't polish a turd" is also true, but then i was reading about this years Ig Nobel Prize winners and discovered you can't make knives from them either

your signature reading as part of the post is all i can think of?

that's because the CRT lads have drained the pound to investigate

if they’re sat there with poles and all the gear ill slow to tick and if possible avoid where i think they’ve lobbed their groundbait. and say hello as i pass. if they’re walking along spinning for pike or zander i just go by as normal. and say hello as i pass. i reckon reciprocation of greeting is about 75%, i’ve not yet been shouted at.

a badger with an aqualung perhaps? Brocques Cousteau?

imagine all the fun you could have had with that time you wasted pointlessly checking licenses? if we guesstimate at 5mins per boat, to note number, fire up the webpage & check details = 1490 minutes thats just shy of 25 hours. you wasted an entire day of your trip

From what i gather they take it to use in cooling for the data centre. They assured me in an email that they put back what they take out, but have since blanked me when i asked where it got put back as i'm pretty sure its a different pound and possibly even into the same pound as the marina?

size and style of boat? some builders may be better at say widebeams than narrowboats or replica dutch barges than widebeams, etc.

i think it's more likely the rules follow the interpretation of the science that best follows the agenda of those either advising or in charge of making the rules

If it can tell the difference between 10pm and 11pm then it's no stretch to imagine it's good at Geography

sadly, when it comes to repairs nowadays, temporary is the new permanent

didn't they just fix Hack Green locks in the last winter stoppage? or was it the year before? i definitely remember a period of time where both Hack Green and Audlem were shut thus making trips out from Overwater a tad short

typo possibly meant Bunbury?

Swanley Lock No 6 on the Llangollen?

we had an iffy one a few years back, BGas chap just unscrewed it and put on another from the back of his van, totally different manufacturer but same thread etc.

isn’t he the chap with the breaky heart?

Finally watched this last night with the Mrs, usual fare from Miserable List, they moan a lot about incidents they don't show you so you have to take their "we've done 2/3rds of the system" word for it. Rest assured that when they've done the other 3rd of the system that boat will be up for sale in short order and they'll move on to completing something else. It's very telling that you only see one side of it, i noticed on the Three Rise they blurred out the lockies face, surely they could have done the same for the Five Rise to protect identities, but this might show up their own complacency. As said above, these are the first locks you come across when leaving Silsden hire base, if they were that dangerous you'd only be allowed to go to Skipton

Or alternatively have a look at Waterway Routes, https://www.waterwayroutes.co.uk , in PDF form so can be browsed on your device of choice and printed out already formatted for A4, can be bought as a download or a DVD by post (which also gives download link) so delivery can be as quick as your internet connection. They won't give the incidental detail or history like a Pearsons or Nicholsons, but do provide all the relevant stuff like moorings, services, water, marinas and what they provide. As to your original point, i have a couple of Nicholsons guides saved in my Amazon basket for later (to replace our oldest editions at some point) and had seen a couple of weeks ago that they were suddenly unavailable, this would explain it. I looked at the publishers website, Collins, and they too show temporarily out of stock. As they are printed in China this may explain it.

i got one of those cheapy inspection cameras, can either be USB or WiFi so any flavour of phone or computer, waterproof & has a bright LED round the lens you can adjust or turn off, 5 metre cable which is sort of rigid but bendable. Thought it would be great for those end of cruise prop inspections or any wintery ones, and it kind of is once you get used to directing it. Then we moved to Dunchurch and the water in the marina is so clear you can lift the weedhatch and see the prop, the rudder, passing fish and everything, so this year its stayed at home