Hudds Lad

Just had drop in my mailbox revised booking info for the HNC, you need to book Standedge, Marsden Flight & Lock 1E now. https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/notices/24708-marsden-lock-flight-lock-42e-to-lock-32e https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/notices/27726-standedge-tunnel-2024-booking-information https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/notices/26262-huddersfield-narrow-canal-lock-3e-to-lock-1e-tuesday-and-thursday-only The Marsden Flight notice contains some good excuses for lack of water

Which is odd, because if memory serves the CRT sign on the bridge says something about being customer operated and has instructions on unlocking and opening the swing bridge?

This is why Brian Cant would never work in Essex

I've just had to put some nuts and seeds out for our squirrel, the poor little beggar was looking for the ones she'd previously buried not knowing the jackdaws had been watching and snaffled the lot, i also had to stamp down the holes in the lawn she'd left in her fruitless search. I'd take a pic but she's refused to sign a waiver.

Sounds correct to me. If you ever see people going to the bins wearing bandoliers of metallic poo sausages you'll know what they're up to 😬

Well, i like it. Only been boating for nine years so it's nice to see how places i've been looked before i saw them for the first time. Thread drift is an inevitable fact of forums, unless moderated with an iron fist, and surely no-one wants that?

It's a definite improvement over a carrier bag in the back of the transit that we used in my old landscape gardening days

Erm, don't think they are supplied as standard, you provide your own. My first ever huge reverse was going back to the services at Calveley to retrieve the one i'd forgotten

Last year or the year before we were passing the location of the buoy at Ansty and it had gone, wow we thought, they got round to sorting it! A couple of miles further along we came upon a couple of CRT lads dragging it back in the direction it had come from

No doubt telling you about Robert Louis Stevenson and his dad George

Update on 15/03/2024: We need to advise that an extension is required to this stoppage. Unfortunately, the continued wet weather has made working on the site very difficult as the saturation of the exposed slip face and slumped material is making the area unstable. We cannot currently clear any material from the navigation or the side of the canal, for fear of further slips. Due to this, we’re planning to access the cutting across adjacent fields to dig down an access road to clear some of the slumped material, and then excavate the material from the navigation. We’ll need to construct a 300m access road before we can start the excavation, and then continue to work in a careful progressive manner to manage the risks of further slips. The navigation closure will therefore need to be extended beyond 6th April. With the revised plan, our current aim is to re-open the navigation by 18th May. This is still subject to change, depending on weather conditions as we progress with the works, and what potential damage has occurred to the towpath wall, which we won’t know until we start excavation. Thank you for your patience and support in resolving this challenge.

Did you ever see him using the throttle on the diesel? Several short bursts in rapid succession whilst manoeuvring, enough to make your drivetrain cry.

Even with their ability to stretch 25mins of content over an hour program with coming-up's & recaps around each ad break?

I thought this was going to be a post about deterring the undesirable element from your boat with a bit of wooden persuasion

Its alleged to be a giant rat caught in a house in Johannesburg, in reality it's a rat caught in Tooting about three years ago but photo is using forced perspective by holding the rat much closer to the camera on the end of a litter picker. It'd still give me the yips though 😬

Where's Judas Priest Bridge then? or Napalm Death Bridge?

Running every electrical gadget onboard like it's a house combined with a generator that seemed to run for fun

Well, someone had to do it

They seem to have mistaken the word "planet" for the word "profit", schoolboy error

J has pointed it out to me on Facey, it’s built by Thames Solar Electric Boats, so roof covered in solar and flue out the side seems to be their SOP. https://thamessolarelectric.co.uk/

Was going to say, we've definitely seen one similar on the Oxford somewhere, but can't remember where, somewhere above Enslow at least as J didn't cruise with me from the Thames to Enslow when we bought the boat and she remembers it too.

Reminds me of a certain boat launched last year at Crick which has, as far as i recall, had a new battery, software upgrades for iffy controller, new generator, new motor, new prop, and at one point they mentioned having used about three times more diesel in the same period than when a traditionally propelled boat (to be fair it has diesel heating too). This is no doubt fine if you don't mind being a beta tester for the builder and can afford the time laid up whilst work is done to rectify.