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

[Hayabusabart]

Hi Folks.. here's my Tonic .. AQUATONIC = Viking 32 foot river cruiser

[MtB]

5 hours ago, mark99 said:

 

 

Can't quite locate which part of the Thames that may be?

 

 

 

 

Chertsey Meads coming up on the left, would be my guess.

 

 

[PeterScott]

Isolationist times away from t'cut ? Pictures from this day last year have a short day from FradleyJ to base at Streethay via HuddlesfordJ here. Not prticularly spring-like ...

[tree monkey]

8 hours ago, mark99 said:

Unfortunately no water near the house - (nearest water being the River Wandle) - will have to sit down and watch the skeletal landscape move from cold spring dawn <first image taken today> inexorably to late spring greeness <2nd image last year>. Note the missing flowing Silver Birch in the distance - casualty of the winds recently. Now chopped up and seasoning in the wood store. The big tree is a Walnut.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You might want to go easy on any more crown lifting on that birch (?) That can make them more liable to failure

 

Lovely garden by the way

Edited March 25, 2020 by tree monkey

[OldGoat]

2 hours ago, Mike the Boilerman said:

 

Chertsey Meads coming up on the left, would be my guess.

 

 

Nay Lad, 'tis just upstream of Cleeve Lock with "Y olde Leathern Bottle and Goring Sailing Club just beyond.

Remarkably quiet when you consider that the GWR line  to Brissol just out of shot on the RHS.

[mark99]

2 hours ago, tree monkey said:

You might want to go easy on any more crown lifting on that birch (?) That can make them more liable to failure

 

Lovely garden by the way

Noted TM. I did go bananas. It's a Walnut btw. 

 

Out of shot is another bigger Walnut. We crown reduced it the wrong time of year and the poor tree bleed for weeks. It survived but was an illustration of how much fluid trees pump out of the ground.

[restlessnomad]

7 hours ago, Hayabusabart said:

Hi Folks.. here's my Tonic .. AQUATONIC = Viking 32 foot river cruiser

is it a liveaboard? looks like it has a lot of space.

[mark99]

3 hours ago, OldGoat said:

Nay Lad, 'tis just upstream of Cleeve Lock with "Y olde Leathern Bottle and Goring Sailing Club just beyond.

Remarkably quiet when you consider that the GWR line  to Brissol just out of shot on the RHS.

Had a meal whilst moored outside the Leatherne Bottel..... nice.

 

Peter H put us out of our misery! 

7 hours ago, Hayabusabart said:

Hi Folks.. here's my Tonic .. AQUATONIC = Viking 32 foot river cruiser

Thats a nice bote.

Edited March 25, 2020 by mark99

[Chris Lowe]

Tenby Harbour

 

[1agos]

[pete harrison]

13 hours ago, mark99 said:

Can't quite locate which part of the Thames that may be?

 

2 hours ago, mark99 said:

Peter H put us out of our misery! 

I do not know the Thames at all having only been on it only two or three times in the past, and that was years ago (1997 to 1999). We set off from just below Mapledurham lock around 12:00 and tied at Abingdon just before dark, which in early May was probably around 21:30. I think the photograph was about mid afternoon and was taken as we approached a sailing club (on the right hand bank when going upstream) who had a race in full flight - with us escorted through by a speedboat of some sort. More than that I can't say 

[PeterScott]

No ducks were hurt in the taking of this picture...

[cuthound]

10 hours ago, PeterScott said:

No ducks were hurt in the taking of this picture...

 

Blimey, the bottom really is near to the top there! ?

[WotEver]

11 hours ago, 1agos said:

Awwww...

[Hayabusabart]

13 hours ago, restlessnomad said:

is it a liveaboard? looks like it has a lot of space.

no we don't live on it... 

[mark99]

Ruby the wonderdog taking me for my daily walk in the low sunshine. She looks like Max Wall.

 

 

Edited March 26, 2020 by mark99

[PeterScott]

Isolationist times away from t'cut ? Picture from this day last year: one of the Leeds watertaxis taken from t'other.

 

[DandV]

Thanks for the photos. I need the relief from news channels. 

 

Take care, see the good things in life, or better still create them for yourself.

[Tesla]

Going to miss out on sailing in Greece this year....but on the plus side we are thinking about buying another NB on our return to the UK later this year. So something to look forward to!

[Man 'o Kent]

2020 at 07:56, mark99 said:

nearest water being the River Wandle

 

I've got several 100+ year  old  21/4" glass plate photographs of that area of Surrey tucked away somewhere.

They show a very different world. "Progress" maybe but at what cost?

 

But sadly being something of a computer dinosaur I have no idea how I might post them.

[PeterScott]

Isolationist times away from t'cut ? and this day in 2019 (and 2018) was a not-boating day between two boating-days. In 2017 we were descending the T&M's Cheshire Locks (Heartbreak Hill), and the motorway hereabouts was being converted to all-lane running, which brings traffic much closer to the canal.

Edited March 27, 2020 by PeterScott

[Nightwatch]

Two, maybe three years ago. Where?

Fed up in this boat. Can I get a transfer somewhere else please.

[TheBiscuits]

Skipton services, from the footbridge

[Nightwatch]

Just now, TheBiscuits said:

Skipton services, from the footbridge

Might be! Easy weren’t it. Just prior to going into dock for blacking.

[matty40s]

Not much going on here....