Hudds Lad

I'd say hire from Pennine Cruisers at Skipton, or Snaygill Boats, or Silsden Boats and do a bit of Leeds & Liverpool. A lot depends on where you are willing to travel to from wherever you are in the country. Also bear in mind you'll lose a lot of your first day with handover which is usually early afternoon, and you'll need to return the boat to base for about 8am on the last day. The time of year will have an impact on cruising time as well, hire boats are not supposed to cruise in the dark.

I'm amazed at the idiots that can't drive in line with weather conditions. Bit of snow here, already been two crashes on corner due to folk going too quick and having to stop for the temp traffic lights just round the bend. Slide - bump

I’ve not looked at Open Canal Map for a while, so found where it was squirrelled away on my phone and opened it, it’s stoppage accuracy is not endearing it to me if I’m honest, it’s showing four stoppages locally that are off in the countryside 🤷🏻‍♂️☹️

If you’re amazed by a maze, then a maze made of maize must truly amaze

Surely it depends upon the individual? Some folk will repair something if it breaks, others see it as an opportunity to bin and buy new. The last Dyson we bought lasted about 18yrs. On it i've changed filters, drive belts, brush bar, and motor. Sadly now the chassis has cracked and is just not worth it to replace (about £60 second hand last time i looked). I tried a more modern one and it was pants compared to our old one, so we bought a Shark instead. I'll always try to repair if i can

The pratt in a cravat? Usual waffle

Had the same problem on Streamline, about half the sharers would clean it (self included) the other half just left it for someone else. Had similar problem to OP with kitchen sink waste, u bend was gunked up to about the diameter of a pencil, i just bought a new assembly and replaced rather than mess about, cost about £6 which i charged back to the syndicate Sharing the cost is one thing i miss from the shareboat

We had one years ago in the house, it was the bane of the dogs existence, always seemed to make a beeline for her It wasn't very good at changes in floor type, eg: from carpet to laminate/vinyl and would often get stuck on the threshold between rooms for no reason. Also sometimes got wedged trying to get back in it's charging dock so would just sit there half in until the battery ran out. Very small dust collection area in it, and in a house of three long-haired folk and a spaniel its brushes were clogged quite often. Forget the make now, was some sort of Roomba knockoff from Amazon, gave it to one of the sister-in-laws before it gave the dog a nervous breakdown.

Yeah, i could go for that with mine, you got 15 and a half years more than me though. Don't work in nuclear power stations people

Whilst tending bar at Uni i served Derek Nimmo (his son was at Cheltenham when i was) as he'd come to see his lad in a play. Doing the theatre bar was a perk for the bar staff who were competent, half hour mad rush before the show, another mad half hour at intermission, then clean up, stock up and F off, all for a full nights pay

Literally anybody if they're buying

Smaller scale, but quick.

You plainly have too many shiny things in the house

I thought it was a sausage? Its been a while since GCSE History to be fair I had to google it There is a widespread misconception that Kennedy accidentally said that he was a Berliner, a type of German doughnut. This is an urban legend which emerged several decades after the speech, and it is not true that residents of Berlin in 1963 would have mainly understood the word "Berliner" to refer to a jelly doughnut or that the audience laughed at Kennedy's use of this expression – if nothing else because this type of doughnut is called "Pfannkuchen" (literally: Pan cake) in Berlin.[4]"

You're confusing Magritte with Kennedy, who said "Ich bin ein Poller!"

Re: the lack of length to anchor it in the ground, remember it's a proof of concept not the finished article. They are going to be humping it around to various places to get peoples feedback. Only showing the bit you'll see makes more sense for easy transport than the full length hefty item that will need a van, pallet truck and burly blokes to move. This way it can just be chucked in the boot of someone's car and easily set up by one fit chap/chap-ess.

Just the two or possibly three if memory serves (not been down for ages, got too busy with lockdown walkers). The real eroded ones, up near Marsden where the improvements didn't reach, never got touched I probably passed you and waved (full hand, or single digits if you were miserable )

I'm sure i don't know what you mean Pic taken July 2018, i think since then that this is one of the locks they spent quite a few quid on laying stone sets on the lock approach towpath to mitigate this, the gaps between the sets were unfilled and are wide enough to nicely trap pram or similar sized wheel/tyre combos (my wide enduro tyres float over with no prob). Hopefully now filled by mother nature

Does this mean they've finally found the owner/responsible party for the unsafe wall that's had a large section of towpath closed since last January i wonder?

Last pic of that i saw it had some sort of kennels constructed on the right-hand side of it, about where that brown patch of grass is near top of pic 🤷‍♂️