Hudds Lad

Perhaps hire companies adjusting the expectations of where you can get to from their base, instead of presenting hirers with possible routes/rings that are only achievable at full chat in a week? I think those who stare ahead feel they have once been slighted by a fast passing boat and have decided they'll now do the same in revenge, they won't acknowledge you as they plainly know they're being naughty. My gripe with those that pass with music blaring, is that it usually happens at some time after midnight, and they're usually pumping out some sort of Belgian hoover music rather than anything good I'll always slow to pass boats, how else can you gain the time to properly neb through their windows??? To me a more recent phenomenon is the close pass. Moored up on a plenty wide enough bit on a calm flat day, all light through your windows is suddenly blocked out by a boat passing you with a six inch gap between your hulls for no good reason. Perhaps a knock-on from ever shallower canals?

Or puppy pads (we also use one with a hole poked in the middle when filling the diesel, stupid balanced tanks).

Is your calorifier mounted in the engine hole? On the old shareboat ours was and developed a leak that was running down a passing cable and so leaving the water in a different area than you'd think. Drying everything out first, as mentioned above, helped diagnose this.

Don't f*** with the Wongs

Didn't the pages stick together? Never understood why people would want things they're going to handle from a room where particles of folks waste are wafting about in the air, surely it can't be sanitary?

You can inform them online, you can only defer it for a year, then you have to tell them again. Had this with mum's house when she was in care, had threatening letters, agent coming on such a date letters, we'll see you in court letters etc. Rang up the first time and told them house was empty indefinitely and i couldn't give a date, still told can only be done for a year. Pain in the harris. Nothing came of any of it. Waste of everyone's time.

For fans of the film Titanic to act out their DiCaprio/Winslet fantasies?

There's been a Pride Party at Standedge Tunnel for the last couple of years in June (obvs you've missed this year) but might be one for the diary for next year, i believe the DJ they have is a liveaboard. There's a Facebook page for the event so may be a starting point to find if there's any local groups??

There's one hardback copy on Amazon for £33.40 or one on World of Books for £16.50

Hard for my pea brain to work out as our bill was all in square metres, but i think it works out to £22 a square foot plus VAT on top in Hempel 2 pk

I don't have this problem with the iPhone as i guess it uses phone signal as well as the boat WiFi to determine location, but my iPad which is WiFi only will always default to somewhere on the Thames in central London despite the fact it's never been there?!? All you want to do is see if there's a pub within walking distance and it's pretending it's the start of Eastenders

You’d have to ask Philip Duerden, that’s who told me about it when i quizzed him about any old info on Streamline, it may only have been the boats built/launched in 1999. I never did get to pacing it out to see for myself. She’s still berthed at Dunchurch so i might wander down the pontoons on Friday for a squizz unless she’s out, and if J will give me time off for good behaviour

Yeah, full of bits of Wildebeest and sticks with horses head handles

Some of the ex-Ownerships shareboats, ours old one being one, were actaully 59" not the 58" as listed. Apparently due to them being specced with a corner bath rather than a hip bath which required Mr Reeves to add an extra foot to fit everything else in. Shhhhh, don't tell.

Hoi Sin sauce presumably if they are Mandarins Sweetcorn works well, but you need to take it out of the tin, they can't work those ring pulls due to webbed feet.

Don't taxi drivers do this on their rear view mirrors to try and deter red traffic lights or something? If you really want to irritate the neighbours, just pile some duck food on their cratch instead