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Nunovyrbizz

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1 hour ago, Athy said:

Tee-hee.

Is it a turtle (with fins) or a terrapin (with feet)? Where did you see it? Was it ahead of thee other competitors?

Unfortunately I didn't take this pic, It was posted on Reddit and I thought it may be of interest here....

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5 minutes ago, Nunovyrbizz said:

Unfortunately I didn't take this pic, It was posted on Reddit and I thought it may be of interest here....

....which indeed it is, thank you for posting it.

Our landing stage is lined with old tyres, and on sunny days a terrapin about 9" long sits on top of its favourite tyre and basks.

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I haven't got a picture of this for obvious reasons, but a few years ago we were coming down the K&A towards Reading and passed a moored boat with a couple sat in the front well, stark naked.  

 

Oh, and I saw a dredger on the Lancaster canal a few weeks ago.

 

 

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58 minutes ago, Nunovyrbizz said:

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Can you beat a turtle riding a dead sheep? pictured just outside Birmingham.

 

Maybe its a riddle that has dire consequences, a bit like this one :

 

A man has to get a fox, a chicken, and a sack of corn across a river.

He has a rowboat, and it can only carry him and one other thing.

 

If the fox and the chicken are left together, the fox will eat the chicken.

If the chicken and the corn are left together, the chicken will eat the corn.

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28 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:

Maybe its a riddle that has dire consequences, a bit like this one :

 

A man has to get a fox, a chicken, and a sack of corn across a river.

He has a rowboat, and it can only carry him and one other thing.

 

If the fox and the chicken are left together, the fox will eat the chicken.

If the chicken and the corn are left together, the chicken will eat the corn.

Take the chicken across. 

Come back empty

Take the Fox across

Return with the chicken

Dump the chicken and take the corn across

Come back empty

Take the chicken across

 

Or... put the chicken on a dead sheep and tow it...

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A young lady who had fallen in the canal, she was fine if very wet, well, very sensibly she went into the boat and had a shower.

What she didn't realise that leaning on the frosted glass whilst in the shower as they boated past our mooring sorta stopped the frosted glass effect.

We did stop laughing long enough to point out this effect to the chap steering

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1 hour ago, Naughty Cal said:

We will be counting dead deer on the way to Torksey tonight.

 

Will look out for any sporting terrapins. 

I though the Fossdyke had deer ramps ... I guess they don't work then. (apart from that enjoy your cruise!)

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44 minutes ago, NickF said:

I though the Fossdyke had deer ramps ... I guess they don't work then. (apart from that enjoy your cruise!)

Well I did hear they were very expensive. 

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26 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:

It does, but not all of the deer have tread the notices.

 

9 Floaters last time we went from the Trent to Lincoln.

O deer, that is sad.

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1 hour ago, larryjc said:

Seen on the Thames some years back - a steered, powered floating Jacuzzi along with four rather cute young ladies - I WANT ONE.

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Mmmmm, me too.  The brunette on the right, please.

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1 hour ago, Alan de Enfield said:

 

Yes you are 'right' in reality it could be 25 years unless C&RT wake up and smell the coffee and stop wasting money on duck-lanes, poetry, new logos and empire building.

Or 12.5 years if they start listening to people who think the canals have any future if treated as an exclusive, taxpayer-subsidised leisure facility for boaters, rather than as a public asset shared with the 99.9% of the population who happen to be more interested in poetry, wildlife, cycling, angling, walking etc. etc.

 

If CRT want to spend a small proportion of their budget on measures intended to raise awareness and appreciation of the canals among people who aren't themselves boaters, but on whose goodwill and support the future of boating absolutely depends, that is absolutely fine by me.

 

 

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