Ange
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Thanks Rich
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Same here
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1 hour ago, RichM said:
Should be working now. Not sure what caused it to go down, will take another look later.
Thank you 🙂
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Not working for me either.
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1 hour ago, tree monkey said:
Have you seen the price of booze nowadays, it's not that bad if I'm honest, add a dash of lime...
Everything's fine Ange, thanks
Is good. You two are amazing good people
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29 minutes ago, tree monkey said:
Apologies for the delay in information, life stuff has currently got in the way of further investigation, BSP will update when life gets back to normal
Hope all is ok with you two. Sending hugs.
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Thanks for all the kind words folks, I get a bit maudlin sometimes, self pity isn't helpful so thanks for pulling me out of it.
You're all correct - I need to be grateful for the seven wonderful years we had living full time on the canals and exploring a good amount of the system (though there are many miles we wanted to do but didn't get round to). We took a huge gamble doing it when we did, but if we'd waited till we had more savings and pensions coming in it would have been too late and we'd have missed out completely.
Friends and family thought we were mad giving up our jobs and relying on me getting temporary work in the winter, but it worked out beautifully.
If you've got a dream don't put it off.
Thanks folks 🙂
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When we bought the boat we'd decided on a 7 year plan. We let out our house which paid our living costs. We rai0 from personal loans which bought our gorgeous Doug Moore boat.
The first winter we were iced in, our water tank failed, we spent hours walking water barrels up and down the towpath.
Dave cut the water tank out - he did it with an angle grinder - he had a breather tube on the front deck that I had to be careful not to tread on.
I remember saying if we can get through this we can live this life forever.
We got over all that, I suppose what I'm coming to is. We decided we were going to live on a boat till we were too old
I let the side down. I got too poorly to live on
I'd love to get that back
I'm still cross. We decided we'd be on the boat till Dave couldn't lift gas bottles. Dave tells me it's ok. It isn't.
I let him down
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The person who constantly talks about virtue signalling clearly has no idea about the real meaning.
It's not about people stepping forward to help others (obviously what Nick thinks is virtue signalling).
It's about people pretending to help
Glad to be of help 🙂
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It was a different world. I used to babysit my little sister when I was 12 and she was 6. Nowadays I would have been too young.
Mum and dad needed to work and couldn't afford childminders.
A different world.
We did ok.
We lived on a council estate full of aunties and uncles. Mum and dad knew we'd be looked after if anything went wrong.
The worst was needing a shilling for the meter. Taken care of by one of my aunties.
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One of my first idols, I might even have had a poster 🙂 (bought from Woollies of course).
Followed later by Martin Shaw.
Happy memories.
RIP
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15 hours ago, dmr said:
Looks like London White has arrived in Manchester.
If it comes with a guaranteed New Islington mooring then its probably a reasonable price, especially with the extra durability of a plywood top 😀
Gosh, let's hope Manchester isn't about to be the next slum!
There'd be some broken hearts if it joined London
Personally I'd avoid Manchester, contaminated by the Cheshire set.
Birmingham would be my choice of an honest city populated by good people every day of the week.
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Happy New Year!! 🎊🎉
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I've no idea whether this is the right thread but here we are
My favourite memory when we were cruising was when we did the Droitwich canal. When we reached the town centre there were a few lift bridges where I had to stop pedestrian passage to let boats go by.
Our past experience of stopping people or cars wasn't good, we were used to being a nuisance.
But, the good people of Droitwich welcomed us, they'd lived with a stagnant ditch for many years and rejoiced in boats
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39 minutes ago, jacko264 said:
It’s the time that kills the hobby money wise
your work is very nice and love the Wolf
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Thank you 😊
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When people say can't you sell your work I fall on the floor laughing. The time and materials add up to hundreds of pounds. No one's going to pay that sort of money for a bit of embroidery.
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My thing is cross stitch embroidery. I've stitched a few dogs
Freya, Lilli and Lottie
I can't paint, can't draw. I'm very lucky that I can run a photo through a piece of software which provides me with a chart so I'm just painting by numbers
It does take a lot of patience though 🙂
I do love sewing
It's kept me sane when I've been unable to work
This is my favourite. My husband made the frame out of driftwood.
I still can't believe I stitched my wolf.
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I'm envious. Have a lovely Christmas. Are you on the boat for the New Year as well or are you going home for Hogmanay?
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This was when he turned into Mr stupid. And wondered why no one turned up
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On 10/11/2012 at 20:08, fuzzyduck said:
I guess I'd deluded myself that I'd made friends through CWDF.
The fact that none of you bothered to turn up tells me how wrong I was.
This will me my last post.
Bye all.
Reading back the word snowflake springs to mind. Maybe having a hissy fit about folks talking about an upcoming banter put people off? It really wasn't a good look from someone we'd never met.
It was a shame, we would definitely have been there if it was the week before or after. I told him straight away that was Remembrance weekend, there's a three line whip every year, no exceptions
Others just said they'd never met him. If only he'd made an effort and come to banters @fuzzyduck
Right to reply respected.
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53 minutes ago, magnetman said:
It would be nice to hear from Wayne fuzzy duck I'll see if I can wake him up.
I don't think he died.
He got upset when he arranged a big birthday banter, laid on loads of beer and only a couple of people turned up
It didn't help that he'd not been to banters so hardly anyone knew him In real life, which sort of puts you off travelling miles and spending money on accommodation not knowing whether anyone else is going to be there
His parting words were something along the lines of "I thought I had friends on here"
Definitely sad, he was good fun.
Actually he did turn up for one Loughborough banter. To say he didn't make a great impression on the banterers moored in the basin would be an understatement.
Full speed with loads of breaking wash on his grp boat - never a man to make a quiet entrance!
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That was a trip down memory lane - some much missed members there. For a short while I didn't pay attention to the dates and thought we'd had a flood of returnees!
Thank you
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It was health and mobility problems that made us decide not to have another dog. I have a number of operations planned next year so still hope that maybe in the future we can.
In the meantime we're sponsoring puppies for Guidedogs for the Blind - they're our surrogate dogs 🐶
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So sorry Tim, it's one of the hardest but kindest things you ever have to do. I still miss our Millie after nearly four years.
RIP Sandy
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Alice Lapworth
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Agree 100%