PaulJ

Hambledon is another..🙂 As is Castle Mill on the Great Ouse.

PJs are quite basic and sounds like something any decent competent mechanic (used to working with older engines) could deal with. Crafted Boats arent a million miles from you- Ashleigh has been around that area and boats a good while and if they couldnt help you may well know who might. I still have the PJ Workshop Manual ( PDF) which I cant remember if I ever managed to send you or not if thats any help.

Hello Dave, You still moored near Worcester? Is this a fuel pump/injector issue or is that sorted? No one I can reccomend Im afraid but answers may help someone suggest an engineer. Hope life is treating you and that beautiful engine well..🙂

You was on leccy scooter. Nice to meet you 🙂 Was quiet on Atherstone too- I cant believe I was the first up the flight Sunday- was expecting to be at the back of a long queue when I arrived. I didnt leave Sawley until about 15.30 on Friday and wasnt expecting to get to Atherstone in time on Sunday but there were no holdups at all on the way. All the joys of winter boating without winter..

Must have done- just realised your pic is looking backwards. I stopped at BoneHill bridge Saturday night to do some food shopping and overnighted there. So if you was moored up anywhere near Fazeley Junction for the night, as many were, I was the idiot that passed (slowly and quietly) about 6.30am on Sunday morning 😄

I went through late Saturday afternoon going the same way. Atherstone was quiet got there 10.20 and was still the first up! Kids on the bridge were enjoying my BB King/Gary Moore track as I passed 😄

@Stroudwater1 Just had someone look at the bridge- no barriers or scaffolding just a couple of notices at the min

Which Facebook group is that on please? Been trying to find same thing out but havent come across this post yet. Thanks in advance..🙂 Found it!! https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18W6i3fJuL/

We had it on the Great Ouse- it grows rapidly. EA started by removing every trace of it and then followed it up by regulary sending chaps out in dinghys with nets scouring the banks for every trace. Very expensive. They were spraying something on it as I passed some CRT bods on the Selby Canal a couple of years or so ago though I dont know if that was just a trial or not. Its a real git to get rid of.

This is true. Im in that group and I cant see it anymore anyhow😀

One going for free here (Bumble Hole) https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1ETWpskHsB/

Ive seen a few ranging from something that looks like a semi trad cover to a mini version that sits on the hatch runners. Try a search on google ' trad narrowboat with pram hood' and look at images tab. Throws up a few- one of them a full one that extends to the rear deck. Horrible 😀

You could well be right 😀

I think you just have to have an address that comes up on the residential database or whatever it is that the DVLA computors rely on. Still mystified why they accepted an EA licence as that proved absolutely nothing.

It was bizzare and went on for a few months. One of the reasons they also gave was indeed that Police etc may need to contact me. I pointed out that when I got caught for speeding the police and DVLA had no problem contacting me, nor did the council when I got caught in a bus lane and at the same time as when I tried to register my new motor the DVLA also sent me a cheque to that address for a refund on road tax! It was all a bit worrying as I had to also send them the new keepers slip as they also 'lost' my original logbook so not only could I not register it I couldnt even sell the bludy thing either. My argument was I dont have to prove anything about my living arrangements to the DVLA, only a contact adress and where the motor was kept (as also defined to my insurance company) My pickup is also a commercial vehicle (or was until Inland Revenue changed the rules) and insured as such.