At a lock today...

[rasputin]

If you're single-handing & hearing voices, you need professional help. I'd be rubbish at it.

I should point out that I don't patrol the towpaths looking for people to help or abuse. If I'm out & about, I'll probably stop & chat, like people do. Maybe I'll swing a gate & close up after them. Maybe I won't.

Also, I'll only give someone grief if I reckon they can't get up a lock-ladder in a hurry. (or if they've got a really silly boat).

If you go back & read it again, you might see that I was having a mildly sarky dig at another poster, I was bored with turtles.

Thanks for the conformation, not that i needed it.

[spadefoot]

Thanks for the conformation, not that i needed it.

Always happy to help. Glad you're not the needy sort.

[Dyertribe]

This seems quite sexist. Why shouldn't a woman do manual work? If she is struggling then she needs to struggle more so as to build up her strength. It's not as though "struggling" is likely to damage her. And if she doesn't like it, she'll probably just not do it, unless the skipper had her in chains and was plying the whip? But perhaps you are just worried about her getting dirty grease on her pretty frock?

Quite, I'm game to steer when we hire however 'Im Indoors has had arthritis since he was 25 and it affects his wrists in particular so unless I'm really stuck I do the manual work at locks. It's a holiday so a husband in pain is not conducive to a happy time.

Don't judge if you don't have all the facts.

[Sea Dog]

I have often thought that but never said it.

Then you are learning well, Grasshopper, for the casual observer will not have enough information to make such a harsh judgement and may well find himself in said lock with said bicycle.

[Athy]

our preference is for Iain to street the boat

His steering must be erratic!

[MtB]

His steering must be erratic!

 

 

I get these weird dreams occasionally where the water in the canal runs out, and I'm cruising the boat along streets in a city. It still gets just enough buoyancy to go along as its chucking it down with rain!

 

Hope there are no psychiatrists reading here

[Athy]

Sometimes when I see a car towing a boat on a trailer I feel like asking him if he's expecting rain.

[spadefoot]

Then you are learning well, Grasshopper, for the casual observer will not have enough information to make such a harsh judgement and may well find himself in said lock with said bicycle.

Harsh judgement? Lighten up. And please don't go throwing bicycles in locks, kids. They can cause serious damage to a boats stern gear.

[Bearsteen]

 

 

I get these weird dreams occasionally where the water in the canal runs out, and I'm cruising the boat along streets in a city. It still gets just enough buoyancy to go along as its chucking it down with rain!

 

Hope there are no psychiatrists reading here

I think you are hankering after a holiday in Venice

[FadeToScarlet]

I think you are hankering after a holiday in Venice

Or Upwell

 

[MtB]

I think you are hankering after a holiday in Venice

 

 

Fat chance, I'd hate it. Full of furriners... probably!

[Bearsteen]

American and Japanese mostly

[z4driver]

Thermos flasks keep things cold as well as hot.

 

How does it know which it's supposed to do?

 

 

[haggis]

His steering must be erratic!

Oops! I'll leave the typo though as that is our last name :-)

haggis

[ditchcrawler]

 

 

I get these weird dreams occasionally where the water in the canal runs out, and I'm cruising the boat along streets in a city. It still gets just enough buoyancy to go along as its chucking it down with rain!

 

Hope there are no psychiatrists reading here

I've had that one as well, but you wernt in it. Strange. Maybe we should start a thread on dreams.

[Scholar Gypsy]

 

 

I get these weird dreams occasionally where the water in the canal runs out, and I'm cruising the boat along streets in a city. It still gets just enough buoyancy to go along as its chucking it down with rain!

 

Hope there are no psychiatrists reading here

There is article in the August WW about waterways in 2050, that includes your dream ....

[Laurie Booth]

I've had that one as well, but you wernt in it. Strange. Maybe we should start a thread on dreams.

This is true, I've had the same dream.