Hudds Lad

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.

And there was me thinking a dutch oven was launching an air biscuit in bed and then trapping your partner under the covers 😬 Joking aside, knock-off Le Creuset style from Amazon for us (about £40), bit chipped now but works well on hob and stove top.

Correct, i just grabbed it so folk who were interested didn't have to go wading through the comments, or in case it vanished. I doubt modern H&S standards, or indeed common sense, would allow CRT to do what he's suggesting anyway.

Would make a nice change from the usual Dreamcatcher/Kingfisher/Carpe Diem/Lazy Days you see dotted about.

What a fantastic boat name

It's not you, it's only 360p, so that's like a third of HD

But look at them, they're in the shape of a pair of boats breasted-up, perhaps the moss is to simulate the weed growth on the hulls of a pair of those oft-mentioned boats in that London?

Seem to recall someone saying it's because they are forbidden from straying too far from the loo etc. by the CRT guidance for volunteers ?

Yes, that and seeing someone drop a bottle of vodka in Hudds bus station and being amazed at how far down the stands it spread Clean up on aisle all-of-them

Or one of these so you can enjoy the canal as well as the towpath

It's been about 5yrs since we were that way, probably more boats now

Have to say i never considered this, i did the licensing online as part of my "boat jobs list" that J wrote for me when we bought the boat so it's all in my name. Despite that, i'm still told which side of the bed i'm allowed to sleep on (against the wall, obviously). She's a ginger, i'm not going to argue with her

"Landslips of similar proportions to the one in the Brinklow Cutting have been commonplace, to my personal knowledge, for at least the last 60 years. Less so the further back in time you go, . . mainly because the trees were smaller back then, and so applied less rotating/slipping force to the areas of the cutting sides around the roots. C&RT, and their equally clueless contractors, are making their expected customary long drawn out song and dance, and some very serious mistakes, over getting the canal open to boat traffic again following this relatively minor, and if you know how, comparatively easy to deal with landslip. In the days when the North Oxford still saw regular commercial traffic, . . and was maintained and run by British Waterways, an organisation a bit more akin to a real navigation authority than the clowns in charge these days, . . a slip such as the present one in Brinklow Cutting would generally delay traffic for no more than around half a day at most. There's a right way and a wrong way to deal with slips like this present one in the Brinklow Cutting. A lot of useful lessons in doing it the right way were learned from mistakes made with the Saddington Slip many years earlier, . . which, going from what I recall being told, from the early 1960's through to the early 1970's, by other working and ex-boatmen, BWB lengthsmen, other British Waterways company men, the two BWB Section/Length Foremen, and BWB's Leicester Section Inspector, Matt Mortimer, . . first began causing really serious recurring problems in the late 1930's or early 1940's. Removing too much slip material/spoil from the navigation channel at the site of a landslip too soon after the slip, combined with also removing the main trunks and root systems from where they all finish up immediately after a slip, is a really big mistake, . . and almost invariably leads to immediate, and usually continuous, further slippage and movement. The weight/mass of the main parts of the fallen trees must, initially, be repositioned only as much as necessary, ie. only what is needed in order to open up a navigation channel past the slip site of minimal width and depth. Leaving as much as possible of the slip material/spoil, . . plus most of the weight/bulk of the fallen trees, all in situ at first has the effect of allowing the slip to stabilize itself to the greatest possible extent, . . whilst navigation resumes via a short length of minimal depth/width channel through the slip site. This way of dealing with slips such as this leaves the whole site/area still in a mess that all needs clearing up afterwards, . . but it works, it's practical, it's proven and above all, it's safe, both for those working on site, and the boats and the people aboard passing through after re-opening, . . and it gets the navigation open again in a matter of hours. The cutting up and removal of the trees already done in Brinklow Cutting is absolutely the wrong way to go about this. All that has been achieved by what's been done so far, and what is proposed next, is to turn the possibility of further slippage at the same spot into what amounts to almost an absolute certainty. What should, and what WOULD, be happening under a responsible and competent navigation authority, is that the navigation is re-opened by the means described above, with appropriate signage clearly warning of the serious ground instability throughout the whole length of the cutting, . . and the consequential very high risk of further similar slips occuring, at ANY time and without ANY warning. An urgent program of work to reduce or eliminate the massive destabilizing forces from the trees on the sides of the cutting by means of extensive lopping, or removal of all the largest/heaviest overhanging trees along the whole length of the cutting, MUST then commence as a matter of urgency, and without any delay whatsoever. Pleasure boaters who use, have used, or intend to use the North Oxford in the future should NOT be under any illusions. Years of joint BWB/C&RT neglect of essential tree maintenance, lopping, and growth/size control, has left Brinklow Cutting in a very dangerous state, . . along its entire length. With the high number of neglected and now very much oversized, much too weighty, overhanging trees, along the length of the cutting on both sides of the canal, and the permanently wet unstable ground they're all standing and growing in, . . it is potentially a very dangerous place to be, whether walking through or boating through, . . irrespective of how much recent rainfall there may or may not have been. If nothing is done about all the oversized, overhanging trees that haven't yet fallen across the cutting, but could do without warning at any time, they're just going to keep coming down, . . and bringing more sizeable, potentially very dangerous, landslips full of yet more honking great overgrown trees down with them, . . with ever increasing regularity ! The navigation should have been re-opened to boat traffic in the way described above, . . moving and clearing the absolute minimum of slip material and tree debris from only the navigation channel itself. Everything on the towpath should have been left temporarily undisturbed, . . left to settle and naturally stabilise itself, to whatever extent it can, under the influence of gravity and its own bulk/mass and weight. Top priority MUST then be given over IMMEDIATELY to - again, as described above - lopping and/or felling, as necessary, all of those very much oversized, much too weighty, overhanging trees, along the length of the cutting on both sides of the canal. They are all standing and growing in permanently wet unstable ground, and any or all of them could start moving at any time, without warning, triggering more landslips when they do. Put simply and plainly, . . C&RT are getting this very wrong, . . top priority should, and must, be the prevention of further landslips, . . NOT the cosmetic clearing and tidying up of this one, . . or re-opening the towpath, . . or dredging the navigation channel back to its full width and depth." That one?

Gives no errors on opening or saving in Excel now, and all the previously blank fields seem to have data

Unsure if anything will be lost You then get... And finally when trying to save as .xlsx you get...

It's certainly sedate crawling past the Golden Nook moorings for 40mins or so

4. Handle removed and tap wrapped in copious amounts of yellow & black tape from the back of the van and then left in never-to-be-fixed limbo.

Erm, think you're telling the wrong person here We always found New Marton on the way back to be the worst delay, guess it depends on your schedule and what time and day you hit certain features. Also, Grindley used to have the lockie from Bootle who knew what he was about, believe it's volunteers nowadays?