Tonic required. Send in your photos of what is nice on the waterways now.

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2018

Olympic Waterways and more from that day

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2004

L&L Halfway milepost

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2017

Regents C, Camden locks footbridge. An opening.

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2016

Leeds A&C

and just off the canal in Leeds Dock

Edited May 4, 2020 by PeterScott
year!

[OldGoat]

4 hours ago, PeterScott said:

On this day in 2003

 

Sneyd Wharf W&E BCN ...

... where there is this sign, the instruction on which seems to be missing from this image. It must be one of those w

 

ith an International Standard to define it.

 

[Dav and Pen]

2 Sagar barges at a DBA rally at Paray Le Mondial on the Centre canal. One owned by a Canadian and the other by an American.

[Dav and Pen]

The rest of the little rally.

[mark99]

Image by Bagginz

 

End of the line. Basingstoke.

 

 

[Rob-M]

On this day 2018

Entering the Droitwich canal.

[PeterScott]

On this (General Election) day on 2005

Paddington Branch, GU

Well, on this day 05/05/05 this was my fifth picture. While it would be symmetric to have woken to take one at five past five, a bottle of Talisker had evaporated the previous evening (there were five of us) ... Oh, and btw you're only allowed to click that link if you are a responsible ...

[Sbg]

[haggis]

54 minutes ago, PeterScott said:

On this (General Election) day on 2005

Paddington Branch, GU

Well, on this day 05/05/05 this was my fifth picture. While it would be symmetric to have woken to take one at five past five, a bottle of Talisker had evaporated the previous evening (there were five of us) ... Oh, and btw you're only allowed to click that link if you are a responsible ...

Hi Peter, Sadly, Mitch, who helped us dispose of that bottle of Talisker died a few years ago. He had to have first one then the other leg amputated then sadly passed away. I remember that night moored along side his boat, Juno, which was my introduction to a composting toilet (and it smelt!). I was impressed by his model railway on the boat though. 

 

haggis 

[John Liley]

On this date in 1985, it being Sunday, the work force on a barge conversion took the day off to travel the quick route from Mailly-la-Ville to Auxerre. The Yonne being in flood the locks were all closed anyway.

[PeterScott]

1 hour ago, haggis said:

Sadly, Mitch, who helped us dispose of that bottle of Talisker died a few years ago. ... I remember that night moored along side his boat, Juno, which was my introduction to a composting toilet (and it smelt!). I was impressed by his model railway on the boat though

Between our messages I nudged ThoseWhoMustBeObeyed into recalling the trip: the general election and even the Talisker didn't help: but the composting toilet was the key to it. The evening also discussed, it seems, the possibilities of purifying canal water sufficiently to be drinkable ....

 

'Tonic required', this thread says: how about end of lockdown plus x weeks: halfway-between-marinas, a new evening, another Bottle: to the memory of Mitch, Juno, the railway and even the comp... ??

 

Meanwhile, also on this day in 2005:

Limehouse Basin

 

[Mike Todd]

17 hours ago, Ray T said:

Taken at the local park this afternoon. We've had one or two before but never four.

 

A variation on the usual Canada Geese

 

Two day old chicks.

 

I can count three . . .

[Tam & Di]

59 minutes ago, John Liley said:

On this date in 1985, it being Sunday, the work force on a barge conversion took the day off to travel the quick route from Mailly-la-Ville to Auxerre. The Yonne being in flood the locks were all closed anyway.

 

 

?  You were lucky that they all returned to work with that steel cable across the opening at head height.

 

Tam

[John Liley]

2 minutes ago, Tam & Di said:

 

?  You were lucky that they all returned to work with that steel cable across the opening at head height.

 

Tam

Yes. The one at Belombre was a good deal lower than that, and having made a recce beforehand, yours truly decided to disembark. Theothers, though, being limbo-dacers of a kind, somehow made it through.

[Dav and Pen]

The mermaid at Mailly Le Ville on a calmer day

[mark99]

End of cruise - dinner on the bank.

 

Image by Bagginz.

 

 

 

[robtheplod]

5 hours ago, mark99 said:

Image by Bagginz

 

End of the line. Basingstoke.

 

 

 

 

Absolutely gorgeous photo!!!!!

 

[MHS]

Hardcastle, 5th May 2016, heading south again after passing through chilly Manchester and the Macclesfield canal. 

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2016

from Bull Bridge, Mirfield, C&H

Hurrying Home Hereabouts

Edited May 5, 2020 by PeterScott

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2018

Cavalcade, Little Venice

 

More than one view thereof

Edited May 5, 2020 by PeterScott

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2006

Godalming Wharf, River Wey.

 

Southern point of the connected navigable system

[PeterScott]

On this day in 2014

 

Skipton Festival - when it was possible to take trip boats along the Springs Branch