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2 hours ago, buccaneer66 said:

Braunstone  2017

 

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Braunstone is a district of Leicester, and not particularly close to the navigation. Braunston is a village on the canal in Northamptonshire, but not the location pictured, which looks more like Stoke Bruerne to me! 

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49 minutes ago, WotEver said:

 

I spy a Yorkie :)

A Jack Russell Border terrier cross, does have Yorkie colouring though. She loves walking along towpaths.

Took her to Hatton as the paths are wide and it is easy to maintain distance.

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49 minutes ago, David Mack said:

 

Braunstone is a district of Leicester, and not particularly close to the navigation. Braunston is a village on the canal in Northamptonshire, but not the location pictured, which looks more like Stoke Bruerne to me! 

yes it is I posted in a hurry at work

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Nowadays in France canalside dogs are amiable, albeit sometimes on the scrounge. In my earlier years it was not so. There are few experiences more disconcerting while climbing a ladder than to hear some slavering mastiff galloping round to grab you. Official dictat put a stop to this in the end, with lock-keeper's guard dogs kept behind a fence.

 

Worse still was the rampant billy-goat at St Didier on the Nivernais, which would come across the gates in pursuit of trouble. We would put out decoys to keep the thing at bay.

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58 minutes ago, John Liley said:

Worse still was the rampant billy-goat at St Didier on the Nivernais, which would come across the gates in pursuit of trouble. We would put out decoys to keep the thing at bay.

Sykehouse Lock

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Aire and Calder and Sheffield and South Yorkshire New Junction Canal (to give it its full name)

 

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C.  .. H  .. A  .. R  ..  G  ..  E

 

 

That may be slightly unfair. The creature was lonely and pleased of the company. It bleated mournfully as we left.

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Sykehouse Lock.

 

Remember friends, swing the bridge before you do anything else and put it back only after you've done everything else, or else!

 

I really like the New Junction.

Odd to think I used to work half a mile underneath thereabouts, from Hatfield Pit.

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On 27/03/2020 at 12:37, Athy said:

Is the other one called WETT?

 

On 27/03/2020 at 12:39, TheBiscuits said:

Good gag, but it's actually called TWEE.

 

On this day in 2018, unusually both taxis above River Lock Leeds, where they had completed refuelling

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Charolais cattle fattening up on the fields of buttercups this day in 2018 when we set off Up the Burgundy canal on what was to be our last cruise on the barge before it was sold that winter.

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On this day in 2004

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Middlewich Branch Shropshire Union

One of the disadvantages of a Double Dunton #1054 is that retrieval from walking past inconveniently placed Herras fencing - not thinking of the lockwheeler - requires searching the mud with the feet. Fortunately it was a warm day

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35 minutes ago, PeterScott said:

On this day in 2013

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A couple of blank lines for those who want to check where they think it is ...

 

 

St Katherine Dock, off River Thames. Central London

I've done a few training courses in those offices alongside there.

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4 hours ago, PeterScott said:

 

On this day in 2018, unusually both taxis above River Lock Leeds, where they had completed refuelling

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Excellent!  No great surprise to see as the people that run the taxi boats also run the trip boat based in the basin. 

 

I'm just out of sight to the right on the pontoons near the Candlehouse.

 

It's possible that @ditchcrawler is moored next to me, depending on the time of day.

 

@Duck-n-Dive is the boat just behind Twee, and the boat behind him are our friends too, just not on the forum.

 

We could have had a mini banter!

 

 

 

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On 17/05/2020 at 16:11, Athy said:

Today Mrs. Athy and I should have been arriving home after a week's hire-boating on the Canal de Garonne. Obviously that trip got cancelled. 

Can't be helped Athy & Mrs. 

So how should it have been?

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1 hour ago, Dav and Pen said:

Only been to Leeds once by boat I’m afraid and it looks like it’s changed a bit

Leeds Waterfront during IWA National Rally AugustBH 1981

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