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adam1uk

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  1. We passed a wide beam named ‘March’ yesterday. I wondered if it’s owners had been inspired by this thread.
  2. It's not a new logo, though, is it? The big information signs at places like Foxton have the logo and the sweeping different blue colours -- and they've just used a bit of the shape rather than the logo on its own. Such as on the vans as above, or this downloadable map:
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  4. It’s a regional slot, and HD can’t (yet) show different programmes in regions. Regions will only get the episode that relates to their region, which is why the NW got Ep4 and the SW didn’t get one at all. But then it’s a BBC4 production, so any slot on BBC1 will be seen as a bonus (and BBC4 will be hoping it inspires people to look out the rest).
  5. The trip to Froghall is much longer, and the moorings before the Black Lion really feel remote. The narrow bit past the railway station is well worth doing. You are unlikely to get through the tunnel, so don't miss the winding hole before it. The moorings there are nothing special at all. If the steam train is running, it's a nice trip. The Leek Arm is from memory only an hour or so each way, so while you're there you might as well go and have a look down there too. There's a nice mooring in the pool before the tunnel. The tunnel is also worth a trip through, and you can moor at the end and walk into Leek. In Chester, there are moorings close to the city above the staircase locks, or you can go down and there are moorings below which are less built up.
  6. The Caldon is a favourite of mine, so I'd tend to gravitate towards that. Chester is also a good place to visit (in fact you can go right along to the Museum at Ellesmere Port if you have time). A lot depends on where you're starting. I'd prefer to do the extra bit towards the end of the trip, so you know you've definitely got enough time. Having said that, some hirers manage to get round the four counties in a week...
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  8. These plans would certainly make redundant my favourite quote about the end of the Slough Arm, which is that when you get there, there’s no there there.
  9. Also, they're apparently moored on the lock landing -- but clearly not going anywhere.
  10. When you have completed the survey you are directed to the CRT boating web page — where the photo is of Stoke Bruerne, but back to front. Looking towards the top lock, the museum, the cottages, and the Spice of Bruerne are actually on the left not the right.
  11. We’ve just been on the Thames until a few days ago. We bought a week’s licence at Eynsham Lock having come off the Oxford; the lock keeper there was quite happy to sell us one (the website no longer says anything about doing it by phone). When our week ran out, we tried to buy another day (which of course is actually two days), but failed to find any lock keeper who wanted to take our money. One just shrugged, one directed us to the website, one said they weren’t doing them at the moment... So it seems that right now, it’s almost impossible to give the EA money even if you want to.
  12. Give Lockgate themselves a ring — you often have to leave a message, but they do call back.
  13. I’ve been meaning to ask this for months, but as we’re moored at Nether Heyford tonight I was reminded. The boats (I can’t remember their names) that had their own mooring here, by the house, that were looking more and more neglected are no longer here. Anyone who what’s happened to them? I’m sure Alan mentioned a few hundred pages back that the owner had always declined to sell them.
  14. Hence the advice to slow down early enough to make a difference, and late enough so they can hear you do it!
  15. And on the Trent and Mersey locks caught fenders have been known to lift gates right off as a boat leaves. Instead you get a semi-circle of blacking rubbed off by the fenders, so I can't really see that you're ahead.
  16. The main problem at Lapworth is meeting a boat coming the other way in those really short pounds (especially the ones on a bend) -- and figuring out how you're going to get past each other.
  17. From the Press Association: TWO TREATED FOR BURNS AFTER RIVER BOAT BLAST By Richard Vernalls, PA A man and a woman are being treated for burns after an explosion on board a river boat. The blast happened near the Sandy Lane industrial estate in Stourport-on-Severn, Worcestershire, at about 6.40pm on Monday, West Midlands Ambulance Service (WMAS) said. The air ambulance was among medical support sent to the scene. A WMAS spokesman said: "On arrival, crews found the man and woman who had been on board doing exactly the right thing - they were using lukewarm water to cool the burns. "The woman was suspected of being the slightly more serious (casualty) of the two. "After assessment and treatment at the scene, she was taken to Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham by ambulance." The man was also treated at the scene and later taken to hospital. 041413 AUG 20<
  18. You mean MBNA, the bank. had it been MDMA they would probably go even faster than they do already.
  19. I think so too -- it's a while since we were there, but I'm fairly certain there's a gate to the lockside, and you can cross the lock to the towpath.
  20. But April and May had less than half the average rainfall.
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