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[tafelberg]

• Mooring for Narrow boat in Private Canal inlet and natural surroundings
• Private Gated access and car parking space.
• Metered Electricity and water to boat.
• To preserve quiet nature environment: no children or animals.
• No Widebeams as the mooring is for a narrowboat.
• Location Grand Union Canal, Harefield.
• No children or pets
• Location Harefield, near Uxbridge

Call Jane : 07931 764335

Edited October 1, 2024 by tafelberg

[Slim]

Lusted over a mooring there for years when I had a boat. When one becomes available I don't have a boat. Sods Law. 🤩

[MtB]

Just now, Slim said:

Lusted over a mooring there for years when I had a boat. When one becomes available I don't have a boat. Sods Law. 🤩

 

When you get a really gorgeous mooring like that something unexpected happens. You find you no longer want to go cruising as it's nicer on your mooring than it is elsewhere, out on the cut. 

 

 

 

 

[magnetman]

No pets and no children is an interesting rule. The non towpath side house at Black Jacks lock always used to have very loud dogs in their garden. That was back in the late 00s so maybe they have gone quiet now. 

 

[tafelberg]

They still have dogs.

[PaulJ]

2 minutes ago, magnetman said:

No pets and no children is an interesting rule. The non towpath side house at Black Jacks lock always used to have very loud dogs in their garden. That was back in the late 00s so maybe they have gone quiet now. 

 

Maybe not same dogs but some still there.

Funnily enough  I chased off three kids with a catapult who were using the boats there for target practice a couple of weeks ago.

 

[tafelberg]

Thanks mate  yeah tbh I'm moored there, I'd love a cat but they won't allow it. 

[bizzard]

I wonder why not cats. Cats are quiet and clean. Dogs are dirty and noisy.

[GUMPY]

Cats decimate wildlife and shit in the flower beds.

Disgusting creatures 

[alan_fincher]

2 hours ago, bizzard said:

ICats are quiet and clean. 

 

You would't care to convince those visiting our garden not to continue to do the decidedly un-clean things they currently do?

[magnetman]

2 hours ago, GUMPY said:

Cats decimate wildlife and shit in the flower beds.

Disgusting creatures 

this. Technically cats should be sent to the sausage factory for onward processing. 

 

 

I wonder if pet tortoises would be okay. My uncle used to have pet tortoises in his gardens. We had great fun trying to find them when visiting as children. 

 

We had snakes. Garter snakes and corn snakes. Quiet and no harm to anyone. 

Edited October 2, 2024 by magnetman

[PaulJ]

4 hours ago, tafelberg said:

Thanks mate  yeah tbh I'm moored there, I'd love a cat but they won't allow it. 

Lovely spot- looks even better since the trees have been cleared 🙂

[Naughty Cal]

4 hours ago, bizzard said:

I wonder why not cats. Cats are quiet and clean. Dogs are dirty and noisy.

Cats are far more destructive to local wildlife and leave far more sh*te lying around than a dog 🙄

[PaulJ]

11 minutes ago, Naughty Cal said:

Cats are far more destructive to local wildlife and leave far more sh*te lying around than a dog 🙄

Id say human beings far exceed both 😀

[magnetman]

30 minutes ago, PaulJ said:

Id say human beings far exceed both 😀

A mooring without any humans is something I have managed to get. Well there is one but I quite like him. 

[MtB]

8 hours ago, GUMPY said:

Cats decimate wildlife and shit in the flower beds.

Disgusting creatures 

 

Remind me where dogs shit...

 

 

[GUMPY]

46 minutes ago, MtB said:

 

Remind me where dogs shit...

 

 

Where their owners can pick it up. 

[LadyG]

9 hours ago, GUMPY said:

Cats decimate wildlife and shit in the flower beds.

Disgusting creatures 

I have a cat and, brings the occasional mouse, but only one bird, he uses the litter tray.

 

20 minutes ago, GUMPY said:

Where their owners can pick it up. 

The evidence is that they shit outside my boat, every day.

 

Man is the great destroyer.

Once the hedges were havens for wildlife, birds were abundant, fields were wildlife meadows. Grasses were mixed varieties. Cornfields had poppies and other weeds.

There was a time before DDT that the earth itself was tilled with earthworms, various beetles, mychorhiza and so on.

Farming was not intensive  but nobody starved.

But the urban population wanted cheap food, and so it was decreed.

 

Edited October 2, 2024 by LadyG

[Laurie Booth]

On 01/10/2024 at 11:14, tafelberg said:

• Mooring for Narrow boat in Private Canal inlet and natural surroundings
• Private Gated access and car parking space.
• Metered Electricity and water to boat.
• To preserve quiet nature environment: no children or animals.
• No Widebeams as the mooring is for a narrowboat.
• Location Grand Union Canal, Harefield.
• No children or pets
• Location Harefield, near Uxbridge

Call Jane : 07931 764335

How much and length ?

[tafelberg]

Please call Jane 🙂 I'm not sure on either of those.

[system 4-50]

21 hours ago, MtB said:

 

Remind me where dogs shit...

 

 

Every horizontal surface (on the moon excluded).

[MtB]

2 minutes ago, system 4-50 said:

Every horizontal surface (on the moon excluded).

 

Quite so. 

 

Also, anywhere and any time the dog owner stops paying close attention to their dog (i.e. most of the time). 

[Slim]

38 minutes ago, system 4-50 said:

Every horizontal surface (on the moon excluded).

Many years ago when I worked just off of Tottenham Court Road (London) the conversation worked around to dog shit. Several individuals said that they had seen 'deposits' on nearby vertical walls about a foot above the ground. A few days later  someone came into the office having seen a dog back up to a wall and leave a steaming turd stuck to a wall. After that walking to and from the tube station was much more interesting.   

[Tigerr]

I'd jump at that mooring, but Bosun the old dog stands in the way. It's a great spot for someone though. 

[tafelberg]

On 03/10/2024 at 12:54, Laurie Booth said:

How much and length ?

Please call Jane I'm just posting for them.