Popular Post Heffalump Posted April 22, 2019 Popular Post Report Share Posted April 22, 2019 Hi everyone, new and old :) Just wanted to pop in and say hello, Emma and I got married this weekend and were having a boating mini-moon. We've hired hector and we are going from falls Bridge to crick and back. We are currently moored South of Hillmorton locks for the night and will be going through Braunston tomorrow. So if any of you see a couple on a small boat with a tug deck and a just married sign on the rear fender please stop us and say hello! Happy Easter everyone x 1 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tumshie Posted April 22, 2019 Report Share Posted April 22, 2019 Congratulation Mr Heffalump and Emma. We don't know each other but I wish you and Emma well on your nuptials, and may you both enjoy your mini-moon. Tumsh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchcrawler Posted April 22, 2019 Report Share Posted April 22, 2019 And very happy you looked in that photo of you on the stern 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlt Posted April 22, 2019 Report Share Posted April 22, 2019 Congratulations. When is the next photo of the month competition, by the way? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan de Enfield Posted April 22, 2019 Report Share Posted April 22, 2019 If the boats a rockin ………………………... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keeping Up Posted April 22, 2019 Report Share Posted April 22, 2019 Congratulations. My wife & I had our honeymoon on a hire-boat in 1976; we're still married and still boating, I hope that's a good omen for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lily Rose Posted April 22, 2019 Report Share Posted April 22, 2019 9 minutes ago, Keeping Up said: Congratulations. My wife & I had our honeymoon on a hire-boat in 1976; we're still married and still boating, I hope that's a good omen for you. Snap! Got married then (a few months later) hired on the Norfolk Broads at the end of the "long hot summer of '76" for a delayed honeymoon. Still married, still boating, currently on our boat for 3 weeks and heading south from Napton Junction to The Pig Place. I have seen Keeping Up sometime over the last couple of years but not sure when. We did Napton to Marsworth Junction this time last year so perhaps it was then. Or somewhere else. 1 hour ago, Heffalump said: Hi everyone, new and old Just wanted to pop in and say hello, Emma and I got married this weekend and were having a boating mini-moon. We've hired hector and we are going from falls Bridge to crick and back. We are currently moored South of Hillmorton locks for the night and will be going through Braunston tomorrow. So if any of you see a couple on a small boat with a tug deck and a just married sign on the rear fender please stop us and say hello! Happy Easter everyone x I've been past Hector quite a few times on the way up from Braunston but unlikely this time as we're going in the other direction for this trip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cuthound Posted April 23, 2019 Report Share Posted April 23, 2019 Congratulations. Is Hector a tug with a long raised fore cabin? If so you came past our house over the weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsmelly Posted April 23, 2019 Report Share Posted April 23, 2019 11 hours ago, Heffalump said: Hi everyone, new and old Just wanted to pop in and say hello, Emma and I got married this weekend and were having a boating mini-moon. We've hired hector and we are going from falls Bridge to crick and back. We are currently moored South of Hillmorton locks for the night and will be going through Braunston tomorrow. So if any of you see a couple on a small boat with a tug deck and a just married sign on the rear fender please stop us and say hello! Happy Easter everyone x How ya doin you eeeeeeeeejut. So she finaly fell for the charm did she ? come and see us for a beer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nightwatch Posted April 23, 2019 Report Share Posted April 23, 2019 Congrats to the two of you. Good to see you post again. If, and I doubt we will, see you I'd be reluctant to tap on the boat in case you're 'busy'. Enjoy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lily Rose Posted April 23, 2019 Report Share Posted April 23, 2019 24 minutes ago, cuthound said: Congratulations. Is Hector a tug with a long raised fore cabin? If so you came past our house over the weekend. They're going in the other direction from the hire base near Rugby. It may have been whoever hired it last time. Long way to go if it was a weekender though (at least by my 3 hours a day standards). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sea Dog Posted April 23, 2019 Report Share Posted April 23, 2019 12 hours ago, Heffalump said: Emma and I got married this weekend... Ooh, same wedding anniversary as us then - twas our Ruby (which does rather sound like something old people have)! Congratulations! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsmelly Posted April 23, 2019 Report Share Posted April 23, 2019 24 minutes ago, Sea Dog said: Ooh, same wedding anniversary as us then - twas our Ruby (which does rather sound like something old people have)! Congratulations! Blimey you and I got married same time innitt ? It would have been my ruby this year but I traded her in for another model after 11 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nut Posted April 23, 2019 Report Share Posted April 23, 2019 congrats to you both Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flyboy Posted April 23, 2019 Report Share Posted April 23, 2019 12 hours ago, ditchcrawler said: And very happy you looked in that photo of you on the stern Where is the photo? I can't see one . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchcrawler Posted April 23, 2019 Report Share Posted April 23, 2019 50 minutes ago, Flyboy said: Where is the photo? I can't see one . On Facebook. Last time I copied something from Facebook to here that Identified the person I got a lot of grief Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flyboy Posted April 23, 2019 Report Share Posted April 23, 2019 44 minutes ago, ditchcrawler said: On Facebook. Last time I copied something from Facebook to here that Identified the person I got a lot of grief Thanks, I don't do Facebook. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heffalump Posted April 23, 2019 Author Report Share Posted April 23, 2019 Thanks everyone! We've just stopped in Braunston for a sarnie, fighting my way up the hill now. We are re-remembering how much we miss boating again now! 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sea Dog Posted April 23, 2019 Report Share Posted April 23, 2019 3 hours ago, mrsmelly said: Blimey you and I got married same time innitt ? It would have been my ruby this year but I traded her in for another model after 11 years. Yeah, I'm amazed ours worked out really since I was only 10 at the time! (I was in the Navy, but I was still a cabin boy) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchcrawler Posted April 23, 2019 Report Share Posted April 23, 2019 There are more photos of the boat on Facebook now so you have been spotted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roland elsdon Posted April 23, 2019 Report Share Posted April 23, 2019 Our honeymoon in 1987 was to take Motor boat Thaxted from our wedding in Aylesbury basin to Ellesmere port, pick up josher butty Gosport and return to the Warwickshire Fly.via the curley wurley and a iwa campaign rally. Then back to marsworth to pick up our own butty Atalanta and return to our mooring in Ricky. It was just over 2 weeks total . We did a lot of boating and not a lot else.... in aylesbury our ‘friends’ filled the exhaust manifold with confetti and wound down the compression levers, so starting up ( hand start was delayed , i fixed the engine while they gathered the crowd ( we were trying to sneak off) . Once i got compression the engine fired blowing flaming smuts all over me, the cabin top and everyone in the vicinity. There were various other misdeeds performed the worst being the fish on the counter we discovered ‘later’. we are somehow still married but there are bits of the grand union that bring smiles to our faces when we pass through. Oh and congratulations if you can honeymoon in a back cabin... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoneWolf Posted April 23, 2019 Report Share Posted April 23, 2019 hey Heff, congratulations (again) We leapfrogged a couple of times over the last couple of days but I only spotted the Just Married when you came past yesterday I was the woman who hollered at you from the boat between the Newbold tunnel and the pub I'll look out for you on your way back - I may have reached Braunston by then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebfg Posted April 24, 2019 Report Share Posted April 24, 2019 (edited) On 22/04/2019 at 21:14, Heffalump said: Hi everyone, new and old Just wanted to pop in and say hello, Emma and I got married this weekend and were having a boating mini-moon. We've hired hector and we are going from falls Bridge to crick and back. We are currently moored South of Hillmorton locks for the night and will be going through Braunston tomorrow. So if any of you see a couple on a small boat with a tug deck and a just married sign on the rear fender please stop us and say hello! Happy Easter everyone x Congratulations, I saw your post on Facebook. Hector does look nice Edited April 24, 2019 by thebfg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Todd Posted April 24, 2019 Report Share Posted April 24, 2019 On 22/04/2019 at 22:28, Keeping Up said: Congratulations. My wife & I had our honeymoon on a hire-boat in 1976; we're still married and still boating, I hope that's a good omen for you. My contribution to the 'my date is earlier than yours': Our first boating experience was our honeymoon in 1967. Whilst the canal system was rather different back then, I can think of few aspects in which it was definitely better, certainly then and for perhaps the next three decades, many towpaths were all but impassable until councils discovered their use for walking recreation. Our hire boat had a pump through toilet and in general only just survived a two week hire - we had to make several call outs, remember scouring OS maps for the next nearest phone box? There were few lock keepers I can recall, the ones that stick in my mind were a year or so later when we ventured down the Trent and along the manned locks to Leeds and over the L&L - all in a 20 ft ex BW hire boat with a 5hp Outboard that occasionally had a hissy fit. We are still at it (!!) albeit with a break in ownership as we lived in various parts of the country without canals. but the occasional hire trip, and now on a 'proper' steel narrowboat of our own for the past decade. Must be something mis-wired ion out make up . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heffalump Posted April 24, 2019 Author Report Share Posted April 24, 2019 15 hours ago, LoneWolf said: hey Heff, congratulations (again) We leapfrogged a couple of times over the last couple of days but I only spotted the Just Married when you came past yesterday I was the woman who hollered at you from the boat between the Newbold tunnel and the pub I'll look out for you on your way back - I may have reached Braunston by then We will keep an eye out! Planning to stop around Braunston tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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