Ken X

We've experienced low water levels on that pound in the recent past. On one occasion we were dancing closely around a passing boat as we could feel it was low. Both boats were dragging, but moving until we got stern to stern where we both stopped. We exchanged pleasantries and waited momentarily until the water returned, lifted us up and we continued on. 🙂 Happy days.

Well, it's not going well. 😀 We are now stuck at Shardlow as a tree has dropped across the canal. Hopefully we can recommence progress towards the Erewash soon.

We are currently pootling down the Trent & Mersey and, having binned the idea of doing the Leicester ring, are pondering popping up the Erewash on our way back from Leicester. If time and weather are kind to us it may well happen. Many thanks for the heads up.

It pays to keep an eye on any charity subscriptions paid. When we took on me dear old mums affairs due to her dementia, we noted a few subscriptions to charities. Not a problem, her money after all. Then we received a letter from one stating that as times were hard and costs increasing, they were going to increase her subscription UNLESS SHE OPTED OUT OF THE INCREASE. No response was going to be taken as an assent to the change. They got both barrels and we shot one up her MP for good measure. He raised it in Parliament as it seemed to all of us it was an abuse of her good will. We then stopped all her subscriptions as the money was potentially needed for her care. Cheeky sods.

One thing which was taught to us during my apprenticeship was, if you install a split pin, only bend one leg. It gives you a second go if you have to undertake a field repair. Twas a long long time ago but I still do it. 🙂

It's a lovely spot, I often used to pop in for lunch if I was in the area. One of those locks which generates lots of onlookers on a nice day and you know what happens then. 😀

They do have different Tons though as at least one crane operator found to his cost. We were asked to investigate one such accident and part of the cause turned out to be an American made crane trying to lift English Tons.

My experience is very similar. My apprentiship in engineering was equally split into imperial jobs for the USA and local customers older equipment; and metric for the European market. I ended up equally happy working in microns or thou. It is usually much easier to work in the measurement system used by the original equipment as you end up with sensible dimensions rather than wierd conversions. I still use imperial in my house as it was built in imperial and it just works better. Newer projects were invariably in metric as this fitted modern material sizes and tooling. If pushed I prefer imperial as I find it easier to work in fractions and thou rather that decimal points and microns but that is probably familiarity bias. I do note that my current allotment invoice states its size in Rods. 🙂

We managed to get a "Staines, Seaman First Class" into the village Panto script when we did Peter Pan one year. The parents enjoyed it.🙂

I remember Nafford. Definitely potential for an Oops moment

When we used to send samples off it started at around £40.00 and went up to around double that for in depth analysis. Just as easy to change the oil and filter. May be worth cutting open the filter if you really want to have a peek.

I had a quick look and there is the following information:- Married a Mary Elizabeth Peake in Astbury, Cheshire, on 2nd July 1826, Licence image below. Age over 21. Died on 5th May 1861 registered in Congleton, Cheshire. Buried 11th May in 1861 Church Lawton, Cheshire All these events would require linking and verifying that they are the same person but its a start.

This example is on the River Avon.

The blue boat to the right of ours has taken a stern line forward as described above to prevent their boat moving back into the pontoon.