matty40s

I believe EA have an enforcement team with a vessel.

There should be a visible registration number, starting with an N or G if you are coming from the East, or a 5/6 digit number if originally a BW/CRT registered boat.

Indeed, Roger Waters one in Hyde Park was far more mobile until savaged by blades (authorised and risk assessed and wielded by trained stewards in hi vis) to make sure it was out of the way before the finale.

Do they, or do they just go to lock the top and bottom locks at the end of their shift and couldn't give a stuff about the ones in between...

Have you left your immersion switched on ?????

Advertise the mattress on Gumtree, specify collection only.?

There are now water taps at the new Frog Island moorings in Leicester as well as a re- instated one at the new Memory Lane pontoons. Pump out, diesel and gas are available at Leicester Marina between Birstall and Thurmaston. There is also a very slow water tap at the Hope and Anchor ( use in the morning when the pub isn't using water)

I can't see why they needed to include Foxton( shuts then anyway) and Watford (no point unless you are going to lock Buckby and Braunston as well.)

I did top of Stockton to Hockley Heath in a day and I was completely knackered/f##$&d etc

Even when they are sealed.

We were in a pub garden on Friday with the granddaughters, the impending storm gloom set in and the garden lights switched on(pillar type with louvered grills around the light). All of a sudden the eldest grandaughter came running up in tears, she had burnt her hand palm on the light. She was despatched back to the boat for ice pack cold water treatment for almost an hour. I put my hand on the light and it was hot but wouldn't have burnt me. It did her, next day she had a 50p sized blister in her palm and on her fingers too.

No triple moored boats, Paddington basin with atmosphere, lovely journey.

Old Friends was painted 14 years ago and is nearing having the sides redone, the roof and ends are done more frequently being more exposed to damage and the elements. If the paint is only 5 years old and done well, I would probably only flat it back, treating the rust spots and start from there. Yourself can help by treating the spots now with a rust treatment and blobbing some paint on top to stop further spread.

My late mistake.

Well with the hosepipe ban being lifted before it comes into place perhaps the paddle gear will be welded back on tomorrow. ......

I did hear that after 12 months it makes a good mud weight though.....

The Keelblack website is far more detailed and answers lots of questions that strangely enough have been raised on here....and answered on here, ....such as the drying times in winter and having to wash certain off etc. It still only has the two case scenarios from day one, Pooh Sticks and the nameless commercial carrying company. It has added a third "accelerated wear test" carried out by a university in Germany (Road Test Dept). This shows three metal sheets, the first fertanned and then keelblacked(2 coats), the second fertanned and then coated with single coat of mm30 and the third shotblasted , fertanned and keelblacked(2 coats). They prove that keelblack withstands a salt water spray test at high temp for longer than the MM30. Hey Whoopidooo. Finding out that MM30 is a Fertan metal primer that should be over painted with undercoat and topcoat, contains zinc - which any boater visiting Liverpool docks knows just bubbles away in brackish water- and hasn't been used as per manufacturers guidelines in the test just shows that Keelblack operators are trying to blind boat owners with science when the science doesn't stand up. It may well be a good product, but why keep trying to kid people with false facts and science, or scare people into using it as this latest article does. If it's that good, it would sell itself.

Most of the double locks I know, the gates don't sit half way anywhere, they either close back up or swing fully open. This is down to poor balancing when being installed.

There's not so much political as 'whats in it for me' with Northampton in the last 10 years. Borrowing £10m and lending it to the football club without due diligence then letting it get siphoned off, spending £53m on new offices and having to sell them off and rent from the new owners, buying properties across the country whilst cutting essential services and closing libraries.....etc etc...

Apparently the refuse bins at Gayton Junction have been removed and aren't being replaced. There is some dispute over who pays for it between CRT and Northampton Council whose own refuse collections have been shockingly bad this year, the town is turning into a rotting garbage dump.

Ridiculous, especially with rope and logs on some.

You must have a big water tank....