adam1uk

I waved — you were sat at the bow. I know it’s pointless shouting because no-one can hear you, and I certainly can’t hear any reply! We went up Grindley Brook, and it was a bit chaotic! No lockies on duty, but fortunately a few people who knew what they were doing sorted things out. Took nearly an hour and a half…

Passed you this morning, I guess not long after you’d set off.

Waterway Routes has it as a 60ft winding hole. I turned our 59ft there, with boats queueing — so I reckon that while 65ft might still be ok you might be beyond the limit with a 70ft!

It’s quite normal for people to be suspended from work while the facts are established though, isn’t it?

Thank you — this is the thing, it’s not really about me at all. But everyone thinks a podcast will be!

I would hope so, having spent the last 20 plus years on national radio! Some may be longer interviews. The next episode is entirely a chat with Richard Parry. Thank you. Tbh I wasn’t asking for feedback although, as I said, I was sure I would get some. I’m just asking for people to give them a listen, and hopefully if they enjoy them they’ll keep listening. Thank you!

I do.

Having retired (early, really quite early) from a career in radio, and moved on board, I have begun making a canal-based podcast. There are five episodes out so far. Rather than the sort of podcast where someone just pontificates, these are more like radio programmes — and they’re short so they don’t take a lot of listening to. Here is the link for Apple Podcasts. Here is the link if you prefer Spotify. This is the link for Amazon Music. It’s also on a whole load of smaller platforms including Cast Box, Overcast, and Pocket Casts. Just search for The Water Road. I’ve been a bit nervous about posting on here, but the reaction from other places has been pretty good so here goes. I’m sure you’ll let me know what you think of it.

Narrators don’t write scripts, they read what they’re given by producers.

Surely tall people won’t want cross beds though. Yes they can be as wide as a king size, but they’re going to be short.

We’re more than a week behind watching series 2, but some of the continuity is terrible. The girl who picked up her boat from Whilton with her parents was panicking about the bridge before Rugby Boats, then their first lock was on the Nene, and then they moored for the first night at Weedon.

I’m always surprised that places where you need to book in aren’t taken as sightings. In the past couple of months we have been through Harecastle Tunnel both ways, up Watford Locks and down Foxton. But we haven’t been sighted since September last year.

Yes they do, and it’s quite cheap. But the pontoons are a bit like a roller coaster, water is only at the end so you’ll likely need three hosepipes to joined together, and the chances are you won’t be able to plug in to electricity because they’ve only got enough for their permanent moorers. Staff and locals are friendly though.

That picture of Sandbach wasn’t this year — it was at the show in ‘Peaky Blinders’ colours.

I think AW closed their Thames operation there, because they were fed up with the river being in flood so much.