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18 minutes ago, Ewan123 said:
Does anyone know whether the locked swingbridge for this basin opposite Taylor's Boatyard can be opened with the usual BW key? I'd check myself but I'm only passing on foot and my key is on the boat out of town. I'm on a recce for mooring spaces but most out in the main basin are suspended/reserved for those travelling to the Ellesmere Port gathering later in the week.
There are no private/anti-mooring signs in there, loads of rings and a CRT sign instructing users to unlock the padlock of present to swing the bridge... so I'm optimistic!
Best contact CART
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10 hours ago, beerbeerbeerbeerbeer said:
you can come ride shot gun for me,I’ve never moored anywhere between Hartshill and Sutton Stop or anywhere passed Sutton Stop on the Cov.
where do you moor?I occasionally stop for the Polish Shop in Nuneaton but I’m soon on my way after getting my shopping.
When kids we used to go Toppers for fish and chips. Dunno if it’s still going.
We moor near the winding hole, there is a Polish shop there, I assume that is the location you stop at for supplies. We love Coventry Basin to moor at.
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On 13/03/2024 at 15:13, beerbeerbeerbeerbeer said:
but nowhere gives me the shudders like Cov and Nuneaton,
We love mooring at Nuneaton. "Love Petes" is the best English takeaway I have ever found.
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3 hours ago, matty40s said:
So, no Mike, not worth bothering with.
Agree
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50 minutes ago, Annie cariad said:
Heading north ,after Ashby,will pass start of Caldon canal is it worth a look ? Not a canal I have seen\heard much about
Very boring
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6 hours ago, David Mack said:
And in the classic film The Railway Children, the train which is stopped by flags made from Jenny Agutter's petticoat was drawn by a 1930s locomotive, even though the film is set in Edwardian times!
And the train when it stops next to Agutter (who lived on a boat on the Thames) reversed away from her, they reversed the film to show it nearly hitting her. Pity the steam goes into the engine
4 hours ago, IanD said:I really don't see why you're getting your knickers in a twist about this -- and I don't think it was a sterrible as you're making out.
You're not the intended audience, and neither am I, and neither is anyone else on CWDF -- and the same applies to pretty much every programme on the TV about canals, with the possible exception of Robbie's "Cruising the Cut" -- which people on here still nitpicked about... 😞
"It's almost as if the programme makers were trying to come up with easy-watching TV for watchers after undemanding entertainment requiring no familiarity with the subject. " is a good summary, and I think it was just that. If that's not what you're looking for, don't watch it 🙂
I liked the program.
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47 minutes ago, David Schweizer said:
We only watched the first fifteen minutes before turning it off. What we saw was a poor amateurish production, comprising of numerous talking heads interspersed with still pictures which rarely related to the narrative. The only live presentation was of someone digging out a canal undergoing restoration with a mechanical digger, accompanied by narrative relating to digging the canals with shovels and barrows!! People are being paid to produce this rubbish.
Certainly not paid by Channel 5
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27 minutes ago, IanD said:
https://www.imdb.com/news/ni64477898/
Might be worth a watch (or recording to skip the ads), or might not...
Now set to record, thanks for the information
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8 minutes ago, rusty69 said:
He nicked it off a dalek
No I nicked a sink plunger !!!
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21 minutes ago, Karen Louise said:
I burn seasoned logs in my stove and wondered if I need to sweep the chimney....if so, how often ? Kit required?
I use a loo brush tied to a stick.
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20 hours ago, Tracy D'arth said:
It will have a nice beat to it.
The reason for the mixed reviews is that some thought Ringo was better. Keith Moon certainly was better than either.
Did they make 5 types of boats
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1 hour ago, Tonka said:
So have i
ditto
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On 18/12/2023 at 18:14, Isher1883 said:
With rent so expensive and mortgages through the roof me and my partner are thinking about buying a boat to live on full time. How ever we wouldn't be cruising continuously it would just be our home and still be working around south Manchester. I think Victoria pit would be an ideal location but I've read mooring have to be residential to live there permanently. Does anyone know if this is the case? And does anyone know if there are any residential moorings near Stockport?
Kyan Street, Burnley 3 bed terraced house for sale - £65,000 (onthemarket.com)
On 18/12/2023 at 18:14, Isher1883 said:With rent so expensive and mortgages through the roof me and my partner are thinking about buying a boat to live on full time. How ever we wouldn't be cruising continuously it would just be our home and still be working around south Manchester. I think Victoria pit would be an ideal location but I've read mooring have to be residential to live there permanently. Does anyone know if this is the case? And does anyone know if there are any residential moorings near Stockport?
Kyan Street, Burnley 3 bed terraced house for sale - £65,000 (onthemarket.com)
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15 hours ago, Tracy D'arth said:
Not something to say even in jest, I agree.
Practices like these can and do result in fires and fatalities.
For anyone who may have thought that these were a clever substitute for a fuse can I reiterate, never substitute anything for the correctly rated fuse no matter how desperate the circumstances.
This reminds me of the time I was at boarding school.
It was lights out at 9pm and the headmaster would turn of the power with a lever on the fuse box.
We would creep out of the dorm and switch it back on. The headmaster soon found out about this so he took the fuses out of the box.
We the used "pennies" to bridge the gap so we had power again.
The headmaster went ape shit with us but thought it was very clever of us to do this.
He explained to us the risk of fire etc. He agreed to have lights out at 9.30pm if we would leave the fuse box alone.
We won 30 mins !!!
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14 hours ago, Js north said:
Any dry docks for sale or rent on the grand union near northampton i know its a long shot
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On 04/01/2024 at 16:17, Cheshire cat said:
The owner of the Audlem chippy died suddenly last summer. No idea what the current situation is.
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THE VILLAGE CHIPPY, Audlem - Restaurant Reviews & Photos - Tripadvisor
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3 hours ago, Hugh Potter said:
I am working on getting more of the Philip Weaver Collection of photos onto the RCHS/ROMA website, work that was ably begun by Ray Shill. Many slides are captioned but not all, and help would be appreciated. This one we know is "GJCC's steam launch Swift. 1895" but the question is where. Obviously a problem with water levels . . . Great picture anyway!
Great picture, thanks for the post
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On 20/12/2023 at 14:25, TandC said:
Looking at the options for our new shower arrangement...
On the old boat it was simple - the shower was fed from the Morco 61b gas boiler so we set the temperature on the boiler, and leave it alone. There was a bog-standard mixer shower valve but the cold/hot inlet sides were fed from the same pipe coming from the boiler so no adjustment other than flow rate.
On the new boat we have a calorifier and so will need to run both a hot feed and also a cold feed to the shower mixer.
Lots of the mixer bar showers available are thermostatic - such as this - https://www.wholesaledomestic.com/colore-brushed-brass-round-thermostatic-bar-shower-valve/
Is that going to work okay?
This is what I have and very glad I chose it.
Rize Exposed Thermostatic Mixer Shower Valve Fixed Chrome - Screwfix
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13 hours ago, LadyG said:
As the boat was purchased from a business, it should be fit for purpose, so a small claims may be a possibility, against the vendor. Its supposed to be a fairly easy procedure, relatively informal.
Do not let a solicitor send a letter to the Company without your permission, and without agreeing on the contents, word for word as some of them are absolute fantasists. DAMHIK. They know most people expect a letter to be sent out, and a bill to be presented.
I have had two rotten solicitors who made a complete mess of things, and that includes my last house conveyance, which I don't even want to think about, what a mess was how the new solicitor described her actions/inactions.
With small claims you don't need a solicitor. Citizens Advice do offer some legal advice.
I found small claims to be a nightmare and Citizens Advice terrible.
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18 hours ago, Tracy D'arth said:
Get a job and the problems go away.
You must work for citizen's advice service )
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On 27/11/2023 at 22:26, GUMPY said:
Get coal in 10kg bags
And gas in 10kg Flogas lite cylinders
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Yep, Aldi do good 10kg bags of coal, which I use.
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2 hours ago, system 4-50 said:
It is time somebody put some serious work into researching why so many relationships fail. Our kids endure so many years of education, and how much of that is focused on helping them to make successful partnerships? Almost none? If more were successful there would a need for less individual housing units. Perhaps less liveaboards? A government initiative to encourage long-lived three and four-somes might even eliminate the housing shortage at the cost of encouraging 72ft narrowboats and more fatties?
Fewer
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17 minutes ago, frangar said:
Because in my personal experience of helping others that have had boat breakdowns RCR seem to handily suggest that the only solution is a "reconditioned" engine from their sister company.....I have written before on here about the incidents but one engine just needed the head removed and a bit of air filter casing removed from being jammed under an inlet valve....and another needed the cooling system sorted....neither needed a new engine but that was suggested as the only solution.....oh and a RCR "mechanic"...I use the term loosely....tested a vintage engine on a well known historic boat by opening the throttle wide to see what a faint knocking noise was.....thus totally destroying the crankshaft in the process....when it probably could have been sorted with a new shell.
All first hand experiences....not just towpath tittle tattle....and when Ive posted about it before one of the RCR directors got very tetchy....Im also not alone....a good surveyor friend of mine has loads more tales like the above.
Tony seems to know loads.....Im waiting for him to post the links....
It seems a shame that it is very hard to find a reliable mechanic, I always think with RCR there is a way of a comeback if the work was wrong, very hard with some mechanics that are trading.
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57 minutes ago, Mad Harold said:
Every time I switch my phone on there is a headline from some newspaper or other with yet another person "living the dream".
Boaty forums on Facebook have numerous questions about buying a boat and living aboard.A recent one I saw was from a young Frenchman who wanted advice about buying and living on a rather knackered looking Dawncraft, because he said living on canals in France was difficult.
He was getting lots of encouragement from other posters and I replied suggesting that the boat he posted a photo of was in a dreadful state and I asked if he knew about insurance,BSC,licence and cruising rules.He replied that he had a friend who was talking him through these things.I got the strong impression that he was simply going to moor up somewhere and 'sit it out' as long as possible.
This is only one of many people doing this, as well as the numbers doing it 'legit'.
Linear housing estate or towpath shanty towns?
Very easy living on the canals in France, compared to the UK.
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