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I’m not sure I’ve ever seen anything from Nuneaton named as a highlight before.
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2 hours ago, Alan de Enfield said:
Yes.
He has been sentenced to 35 years but can apply for parole after (around) 1/3 of the sentence has been served.
There is an automatic release after serving 50% of the 'tarrif'.
Proposals are to change it - particularly for terrorists.
It is just not true that he'll be able to apply for parole after a third of the 35 years. For life sentences with a minimum term, parole cannot be granted until the minimum term has been served (the link you posted even makes this clear if you scroll down).
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I think you are right, there do seem to have been a lot of stoppages. My theory is that it’s because there was a year with very little use because of lockdowns, followed by a year of more use than usual as everyone took to the water.
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Another vote for Hawne Basin. We filled up there last week — at 65p per litre.
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4 hours ago, doratheexplorer said:
I've only ever seen them on the top lock, standing around nattering and drinking tea. The contrast with the volockies at Hatton and Tardebigge is stark.
Came up Atherstone today, admittedly in the rain. As the boat rose in Lock 2 I walked up to the top lock which appeared to be full. It was, with a top paddle up. I asked one of the five volunteers in the office whether the paddle was up for a reason. ‘Just to keep the levels up’, was his answer. I closed it. He then asked if we were coming up, and were we in Lock 2. I said we were, to save him looking, and he came with me to empty the lock. By the time we were coming into the top lock, there was a vlockie on each bottom gate, and one on each top paddle. So at least I didn’t have to work that lock. -
28 minutes ago, Alway Swilby said:
Wish I'd read this post this morning instead of this evening. We were going up the flight and the lock above the tunnel needed emptying so the pound was high and the grab rail took a beating. What's really annoying is that back in 2014 I'd managed to scrape off a nav light in that tunnel. So today as I was shutting the top gate of the lock below after exiting I thought the pound looked high and asked myself the question "Shall I drop the pound a bit?", then thought "Nah, it'll be alright." But lets look on the bright side, at least I didn't bash the nav light this time.
Going through Ashted, one of us will be on the towpath with the centre line pulling the boat in to the towpath side. That’s been just enough to keep the handrails safe.-
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21 hours ago, northern said:
Here's the CTS you mentioned. Looks great...but it's gas free. I spoke with the broker who reckons Aga do buy-backs if I wanted rid of the stove. Then have gas retrofitted. Sounds like a hassle and not sure what I'd be getting myself into in terms of compliance. Plus there'll be no storage lockers. Shame.
Aga may well do buy backs — but I doubt they’d buy a Heritage Uno, seeing as how it’s made by a completely different company! The Heritage is designed to be suitable for a narrowboat, and people who have them love them. -
3 hours ago, Neil2 said:
Seriously I do think it's a good idea but why do CRT seem to have such difficulty recruiting people with some experience of canals or boating?
I remember ringing customer services once and having to explain to the "adviser" what, and where, the Bridgewater canal is, simply because it didn't come up on her computer records.
Probably because the Bridgewater is not a CRT canal.-
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On 09/09/2021 at 20:15, wandering snail said:
Has anyone in a deep draughted boat managed to get as far as the basin recently?? Now heading for Brownhills Festival but thought we'd have a go at this first. The BCN Society have no updates available and we are used to ploughing......
Passed you today on the Tame Valley. Didn’t have time to tell you about the work boats in the middle of the Rushall — hope you managed to get past them like we did. We did the Anglesey Branch yesterday and it was fine. -
3 hours ago, Bobbybass said:
I had this with my pump out pipes and also the vent pipe that never got touched by anything.
I argued with Leesan that the dry vent pipe had gone porous and stank with a strange sweet odour...they said it couldn't. I cut a six inch section and posted it to them to smell..
They never replied.
I can't imagine that introducing a six inch gap in the pipe did anything to reduce the smell...
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On 19/08/2021 at 21:19, jonathanA said:
Midland swindlers have a big marquee and one of the smaller chandler's have a tent near the boats usually. Craftmaster paints have a full range for sale and leesan usually have some stuff. There's usually a few of the restoration societies the bloke who makes stainless steel chimneys, Aten lighting. Various engine marinsers, battery/boat electrical suppliers , rope suppliers ( I usually renew our mooring lines ) ...
So it really is a struggle to find much boat related.....
Then there are loads of snake oil peddlers who are always worth watching just for theirs sales pitch and patter
This year, the Midland Chandler’s marquee is about a quarter of the usual size, and has other stands (including Craftmaster) inside it. The other chandlery tend down by the marina is not there, mostly because it was from Braunston Bottom Lock, which is no longer trading. The boating marquee is also smaller than usual and with fewer exhibitors. All in all, quite hard this year to find much to spend money on.On 19/08/2021 at 21:19, jonathanA said:On 19/08/2021 at 21:19, jonathanA said:-
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3 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:
Not having any idea what a 'cranford toilet is I Googled it.
All Google comes up with is "Public Toilets at Cranford", OR, a toilet alarm system (ala Disabled pull-cord toilet system), or Chromed toilet-roll holders made by Cranfords.
Can you educate me ?
Just look back a few posts. It's all there.
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1 minute ago, doratheexplorer said:
You're right but I've never tried mooring there as I don't think it's safe. You can moor safely overnight at the sani station at the top of of Cape Hill locks but it's not exactly a pretty spot! Usually people overnight at C-d-B and push right through to Curdworth in one day. If you must have lunch at C-d-B then I'd have an early lunch at 12, get moving againby 1:30 and aim to get to Star City that evening and then have an easy day down to Bodymoor Heath or Curdworth the next day.
I would agree with this -- and if I remember correctly there's only really one mooring by the sani station at Camp Hill, and you won't know until you get there whether it's free.
I would opt for a later lunch at the pub, and then just stay there for the night. Or meet your friends for dinner rather than lunch.
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I really wondered where this was going until I got to the word Desmo.
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2 hours ago, Oddjob said:
We went through some locks with this boat around 14 days back it has one heck of a loud Diesel outboard engine also a inboard electric motor. He was in front of us after we stopped for water on catching him up he was going so slow I caught them up he lost his rag that I wanted to pass as he was sooooo slow I was having to go into neutral so as not to run into him. My wife on talking to the women while working the lock thinks she was east European and was working in London the guy said he built the boat himself. Odd couple glad that we have not crossed locks with them since!
You should definitely tell the police about this.-
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Just now, The Happy Nomad said:
Clearly there appears to be a difference of opinion on what constitutes a lock landing then. If there are four, five or six bollards on the approach to a lock and none prior to it Ive always regarded the bollards as being there for the purposes of mooring one or more boats in order to operate the lock.
It might explain why some boaters moor on them not realising they are inconvenienceing other boaters.
As I added above, it’s on the lock landing now but it wasn’t at the time of the incident. -
1 hour ago, The Happy Nomad said:
Its on a lock landing, I often tied up with just a centreline if transiting a lock.
Maybe thats the reason?
It’s not on a lock landing, it’s just off the landing — and it wasn’t tied like that at the time of the incident.There are still forensic searches going on; I don’t know about divers, but it’s a possibility I suppose.
edited to add, it wasn’t on the lock landing when we came past a few minutes after the incident, but it is now.
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The police tell me the canal may not be open until Thursday.
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Latest info is that a man was arrested the early hours on suspicion of murder. The woman was arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender.
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4 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:
Was "The Eastern European Boat" the 'one in front', and was the incident actually at the scrap-yard boat with the garden shed and the corrugated roof ?
The cones could be by the bow of the rear boat, or the stern of the front boat.
It really is a sad day for society when folk apparently doing their job are attacked.
No, I meant the boat travelling in front of us called the police. The Eastern European boat had a man on board, the one behind appeared to be empty.-
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We came past about ten minutes after it happened yesterday, but didn’t see anything ourselves. The boat in front had called the police. The rumour was that it was a licence checker on a bike. The canal is still closed at the moment.
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We passed a wide beam named ‘March’ yesterday. I wondered if it’s owners had been inspired by this thread.
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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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Are Narrowboats getting uglier?
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Aren’t you having a Finesse Boat? I thought they had Jonathan build their shells.