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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-Jj7LwjkjminniBuyVCtEZBKeKY1tMi3e-MLS_TgNCQ/pub?embedded=true Artist Brief - Community Engagement Programme, Super Slow Way The Leeds and Liverpool Canal powered the Industrial Revolution in Pennine Lancashire. 200 years on from the canals birth we want to stage a new creative revolution, this time powered by art and people. Will you be a part of it? Background Super Slow Way is part of Creative People and Places, a national action research programme funded by Arts Council England to test out new and experimental approaches to arts and cultural activity to build audiences and participants in areas currently shown to have low levels of engagement. The programme takes its name from a poem by Ian McMillan that tells the story of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal, the original Super Highway of the Industrial Revolution which transformed Pennine Lancashire, bringing with it hundreds of mills and thousands of homes and placing it right at the epicentre of British commerce and culture. Two hundred years on the canal has been transformed into a Super Slow Way, a place of tranquillity where time has slowed down, nature has taken over and we can take some valuable time out. At the same time, fibre optic cables that now run under the canal towpath are once more connecting this area to the rest of the world and reinventing the canal as a new Information Superhighway. Working with communities in Blackburn with Darwen, Hyndburn, Burnley and Pendle, Super Slow Way is collaborating with residents, businesses, organisations and artists to explore art through these themes inspired by the canal: manufacturing past and present, the natural environment and the digital world.

Saw this in the weekend newspaper, in an article on camping equipment, and thought it might have some handy uses on the cut. Apparently you fill it with water, leave it in the sun for the day to warm the water, step on the foot-pump, and have a shower. It's available in the UK. (No connection, just thought it might be of interest) http://www.nemoequipment.com/product/?p=Helio+Pressure+Shower+(Grey)

I have to say it's working fine as I write this. Whatever's being done behind the scenes would appear to be working. Well done to those involved. Let's hope it lasts.

I realise that this might just be trying to keep up at the back, but having finally managed to actually open a topic ( after waiting ages mind you) and for once not getting a 'Fatal Error' message...does anyone have an actual explanation of why it's all gone pear shaped?

Just tested by opening up the first 20 topics. A bit slow - I'm on fast broadband - but no Fatal Errors....so far! ETS Also slow uploading this post.

Glad it's not just me. I reckon I'm currently getting c. 1 in 20 chance of getting onto the site. Otherwise it's all fatal errors. Haven't had anything like that for weeks now.

Agree about doing/seeing the final stretch of the Llangollen. But we had such a great mooring spot at Trefor that we decided to walk to Llangollen (and back) stopping off at the Sun Inn for a pint, enjoying all the views, and witnessing at least two episodes of canal rage where it gets particularly narrow!

"So you know when it is full by flooding the cratch?" Yes. But only did that once. Now use simple home made water gauge. "It may be prudent to extend the filler above the floor, for hygiene reasons." It's already raised above the floor, c. 5cm/2" ]

The filler point is just a screw plug in the floor of the cratch, at its highest point, straight into the tank.

Ah....thanks....yes, it's the fresh water tank, but no obvious sign of a vent! It's an integral tank, taking up the whole cratch area. There's the water inlet and a large hatch. That's all I can see. Am I missing something? ETA....it could well be to do with weight. I was painting the cratch deck and completely cleared all the stuff from under the cratch benches....which included moving a 50lb weight to the centre of the hatch where it will no doubt have caused some downward pressure.

Working in the cratch today, I became aware of a high pitched squeaky hiss. Finally located it by putting my ear to the hatch over the water tank and it was air managing to escape through the rubber seal. I undid one of the bolts on the hatch and as soon as I undid it there was a one second burst of escaping air. The water itself seems fine, no discolouration or funny taste. As I'm writing this I realise that I didn't actually check whether the air was escaping or going in - I'd been running the water a lot, and we've got a new pump, but it sounded like escaping air. It's the first time I've ever noticed this. Any ideas? Warm air expanding? Pump creating a vacuum? ....???

We've got a louvre door on our bathroom. From Wickes if I remember correctly. The louvres are actually pretty solid, no gaps. Works fine for us.

More like divine ITvention.

Agree with bottle. We couldn't put ours in the middle even if we wanted to. It'd be right in the middle of the kitchen, where our table is, and we'd or probably end up burning ourselves walking past it. It also depends how you use your boat. We live in the front (kitchen and bathroom in middle, bedroom at back), so don't really need the stove to heat the bedroom, though some heat does get through. In winter we actually have a curtain across the narrow middle corridor to keep the heat in the front (living room and kitchen), and remove it just before we go to bed and I stand in the front with a newspaper wafting the heat towards the bedroom.

We definitely wanted a table, and having seen lots of butterfly/folding tables that were just too big for a narrowboat, we came across the TUK folding table. A lovely small rubberwood folding table that's perfect for the two of us when half extended, with room to walk round, and very narrow when folded. Unfortunately JL don't sell them anymore, nor does anyone else it seems, but they do come up on eBay/gumtree etc. I haven't got a picture of ours (I'll try and find one) but here it is from a commercial website https://archive.is/Ekr1M Edited to add found a photo. Half extended.

Wondering if the skill / realism around Stoke-on-Trent is connected to painting/decorating pottery. Likely to be some connection.