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    Just come through Bedwyn on K & A at least four vehicles untaxed ( dumped ) by Sanitary facility.
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    Back in Newbury after going to Bristol, I would think 80% were P*** takers, when will people get the message, CaRT ( I hate the name, BWB was better) they are a NAVIGATION authority Not a housing association.
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    46 wide locks in a day, thats whimpy boating, Top of Stockton to Tardebig Bottom with a pair, and still had time for barbecue and a pint.
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    Just come up the Thames from Brentford, now at Newbury on K & A very quite only seen 5 boats on the move today, hope it continues all the way to Bristol and back!.
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    in the old days, waterways used to start a fire in the bottom of a blocked ground paddle culvert when they had a lock drained down. It was a bit like a chimney fire, it drew like a good un. You could try this and if the obstructions get burnt to a cinder they should come out easy.
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    Free air through a flying saucer is about 3000 sq mm, a 4inch mushroom is about 7500 sq mm, a total no brainer really, get the best ventilation you can, the boat will feel a lot better for it.
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    I was there, I was captain on Peter Frouds "Jupiter& Saturn", happy days, On the way back I jumped ships, swopped jobs with Jack Hatchard, I finished up with "Comet & Dabchick" but thats all another story.
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    Only 5mins between posts, it takes my dog longer than that to have a good pee!
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    Before mooring opposite the marina once, I asked the boats opposite if anyone was going out that evening, the reply I got was " we never go anywhere", so I stayed the night.
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    As we say up North, where ere you be, let your exhaust blow free.
  12. J R ALSOP
    Drove through Weedon today and saw new Tesco Metro (small) store where the hotel was on the main junction with traffic light A5 / M1 to Daventry. Only 5min walk from op. old Concoform yard or Heart of England moorings.
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    First went there in 1961, when Hotel boating, happy days indeed, I sometimes wish I had been born 50 years earlier, no continous moorer's, hedges you could see over and just a open cut.
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    My mother had a brush that she had had for forty years, it had had five new stales and five new heads.
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    If you don't have a properly adjusted expansion device fitted when you heat a "cold" water calorifier the expanding water will only come from one or two places i.e. the PRV or worse still has been known to push a fitting apart. If you don't have a PRV, just turn of the pump and leave a tap open, you would be surprised how much water is displaced.
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    I remember "Elk" in the 50's it used to tie at the bottom of Bosley Locks on the off side.
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    When there was a towpath through, there were little shelters like in railway tunnels so you could get out of the way of the horse if you were walking through. I only remember them from 1956, the first I boated through. You had to take the tiller pin out and tie a plank to the side of the cabin to protect it.
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    I just press the buttons on my remote control, up, down, left or right. Even on and off from my pocket.
  19. J R ALSOP
    THERE IS NO MORE ROOM IN LONDON FOR LIVE-ABOARD, CONTINOUS CRUISERS OR CONTINOUS MOORERS. GO TO THE NORFOLK BROADS.
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    Never mind the engine, can we have a close up of the Loo!.
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    Belzona, now there's a name I haven't heard for a while, can you still get it? (not as I need any) but always handy just in case.
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    Elsan Blue, nothing to beat it, nice smell, nice colour and not to expensive, works OK in Porta Loo.
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    "Victoria" went past my look out station (The Boat) in Berkhamsted at 1600 today.
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    As someone said a couple of weeks ago "Tie up and shut up" I have started using it all the time.
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    Key been left in ignition switch for 35years (only seems like yesterday when it went in for first time). If it gets lost I have about 10 others, or I could use a screwdriver.
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