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Hence my edit made 2 min's after your last photo, which you posted whilst I was typing

Construction Constructed in Steel 10/6/4 in 2005

I'm not one for conspiracies usually....and I have followed every stolen boat report ever posted on here.....but this one concerns me. what's the boat number, name, builder, length? because based on all the above I haven't got the foggiest. The only report of it missing is from a License support officer and a Loss adjuster. Not a word from the owner. Just a hunch, but my guess is the person who is on the boat, believes they own it. Edit to add, well at least we know the name, number now thanks to the last post

Hmmm, huge cocaine stash,dumped canalside, found by moles, rabbits and badgers. The result is catastrophic

Why do you keep posting this? 3rd time now.

Just go to Llangollen via S&W and Shroppie

One of them face palm moments, but never mind we have all done something similar. Spent 5 minutes looking for my car keys the other day only to find I was holding them by my teeth.

It's what's called a "dry run". It's good practice.

Aaah ok, thanks very much i did google Ray Bowen, but didn't see anything. I now see it should have been Bowern

it needs to go by road as it's being moved into storage. its a wooden top steel hull, 7 Tonne. Thanks sorry what do you mean "via Ray Bowen"

Can anyone reccommend a HIAB Haulage company who can move a 30ft boat? (South Mids area)

I was coerced by my 'other half' into moving from our house. I too was coerced into moving by my 'other half' into our current house Boaters have to travel light. With 3 kids, I no longer has space in my shed, or rooms in the house to keep MY stuff. lack of decent shops. I too have to get a bus/taxi/train if I want to go to decent shops Missing the so many friends we associated with is another thing I really miss. I miss some of my friends who have moved away too. Won't miss my neighbours though. It is not just cold, it is freezing. So was my house at 0600 this morning when I had to drag myself out of bed to go to work so there will shortly be yet another narrowboat for sale. Excellent, the market is limited at the moment. I need more people like you Any of you people who enjoy your hire on a narrowboat—take the advice of experience—don't let it go any further. Thanks for the advice....but I won't be taking it

Thanks for that. I started following Les' blog back in 2005 shortly after he started it. I continued to follow regularly until my break from all things canal related in 2011. I had forgotten all about it until your post, so have spent the last 5 hours catching up. Can't deny i became a little tearful reading the last couple of years. So sad.

Thanks both, much appreciated. Adams' Blog in particular will prove to be an excellent place to link to other blogs I feel. (I used to use maffi's Blog for that, but most are now not active) Edit to add - I have visited your blog a few times Alan, and will continue to do so

I follow several narrowboat Youtube Vlogs.....which is a fairly recent thing. However, at the moment these are only being updated once a week. I used to follow many narrowboat Blogs, but I stopped a few years back as a result of a self-imposed exile from anything canal related whilst I had young children and was unable to get onto the canal. On checking many of these blogs it appears most have stopped boating or no longer update. So my question is, are there any good, active, blogs that people follow?

Good to hear that they are making the most of the opportunity to improve other areas on the flight though. The Macc is one of my favourite canals!

We have booked for 2 trips this year during school holiday weeks. By booking one 12 month's in advance we received a discount putting it at the same price as a non school holiday week. The second trip is with the same company, so received a discount for booking 2 trips. Again the price then matches the non-school holiday week So a bit of planning helps. In terms of peoples comments about booking holidays during term time. It's not just fines you have to factor in. We would struggle to take the kids out of school, using limited annual leave, and then also be able to provide childcare during the holidays. No one seems to have mentioned this. Fines are relatively minor and so not a big issue when compared to the saving (our school doesn't fine though) but my above point is somewhat more restrictive.

Thanks. I typed and then deleted the same thing. (trying to be careful about speculation re. this specific incident.

Not speculating, but have been thinking about what has been reported. Considering the experience of the lady, im wondering how many people leave the door of their stove open over night? i ask from a viewpoint of learning from this tragic incident.

there are reports claiming what the cause is.....

There are no canalside homes being built in Amington though. The detailed plan i have seen shows a sizeable amount of woodland between houses and canal

Not quite true. The boat was massively over priced and hadn't sold for nearly a year. I didn't get as far as the survey....the broker "fessed up" to a few costly repairs after accepting the offer, and as I was about to pay deposit. (and before the survey) Whilst I pondered my next move (2 days) another buyer moved in and made a higher offer and was happy to foot the 3k repair. On one hand i was pleased I found out before we had the survey, on the other hand we would have paid the deposit, paid for the survey and so still progressed to purchase. C'est le vie Personally I would always use a surveyor....just wanted to point out that one should not use a surveyor and discount the cost thinking they may get more knocked off. I would pay for a surveyor and write off the cost.

We had an offer accepted £9k below the asking price, which was £23k below the original listing price. There is no way the seller would entertain knocking anything else of post survey (unless there were serious issues, in which case we would walk anyway). A lesson learnt too late for us. So just pointing out that having a survey with "if they pick things up I can re-negotiate on the price" (thus potentially saving the survey cost) is not a given. Your power to negotiate post survey needs to be considered alongside your pre-survey negotiation success.