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R C Nesbit
Apr 24, 2014, 2:46:25 PM4/24/14
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Today we entered through the Gates of Mordor!
Well, the Harecastle Tunnel, to be egg sacked
But only after a wait while a car wot some skrotes had
dumped in the cut at the North portal was checked for
bodies by the Polis and lifted out.
I hate tunnels, I do.
I'm not clostofobic, but if I am in an enclosed space and
can see a light which looks like a hole too small for me to
get through - as in the other end of the tunnel in the
distance - I can feel anxiety building up.
Anyway, we made it though without touching the sides, onto
the Maccleslfeld canal (why do they make these boodly
junctions so tight you would have prombles getting a Smart
Car around let alone 15 tons of 57' x 7' steel tube with a
pointy bit at one end?)
And we are now moored up just outside Congleton, by the
side of a valley which is picture-book pretty, with little
stone bridge over a stream and a humongous railway viaduct
crossing it, and views to the Pennine foothills to the
other direction.
This boating lark is getting to me.
I posted this on FB t'other day:
"Tonights smoking room non-view.
No camera can do justice to this!
I stand at the back of Hekla, it is like living on the
surface of a mirror!
The trees reflected in the glass-smooth surface of the
still waters.
in the near distance a ridge, festooned with a garland of
orange and white lights.
Sometimes a cruise is like a grand tour of Englands back
gardens, the scruffy, the ordinary, and the fabulous.
But I would not exchange our ever changing view of their
back gardens with their static view of our canal.
We really are living the dream, and I sometimes pity those
who can not share in our un-reality!"
And I was accused by a several of peepels of being very
poetic!
I hates pomes, I do!
--
Eno P. Arfovg
Have I mentioned we have moved onto a narrowboat?
Green, it is.
Well, the Harecastle Tunnel, to be egg sacked
But only after a wait while a car wot some skrotes had
dumped in the cut at the North portal was checked for
bodies by the Polis and lifted out.
I hate tunnels, I do.
I'm not clostofobic, but if I am in an enclosed space and
can see a light which looks like a hole too small for me to
get through - as in the other end of the tunnel in the
distance - I can feel anxiety building up.
Anyway, we made it though without touching the sides, onto
the Maccleslfeld canal (why do they make these boodly
junctions so tight you would have prombles getting a Smart
Car around let alone 15 tons of 57' x 7' steel tube with a
pointy bit at one end?)
And we are now moored up just outside Congleton, by the
side of a valley which is picture-book pretty, with little
stone bridge over a stream and a humongous railway viaduct
crossing it, and views to the Pennine foothills to the
other direction.
This boating lark is getting to me.
I posted this on FB t'other day:
"Tonights smoking room non-view.
No camera can do justice to this!
I stand at the back of Hekla, it is like living on the
surface of a mirror!
The trees reflected in the glass-smooth surface of the
still waters.
in the near distance a ridge, festooned with a garland of
orange and white lights.
Sometimes a cruise is like a grand tour of Englands back
gardens, the scruffy, the ordinary, and the fabulous.
But I would not exchange our ever changing view of their
back gardens with their static view of our canal.
We really are living the dream, and I sometimes pity those
who can not share in our un-reality!"
And I was accused by a several of peepels of being very
poetic!
I hates pomes, I do!
--
Eno P. Arfovg
Have I mentioned we have moved onto a narrowboat?
Green, it is.
Mike Causer
Apr 24, 2014, 6:03:17 PM4/24/14
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Love em, me.
A touch over 10 hecto-fortnights ago the Dudley Tunnel was re-opened and
with a group of mates I legged it all the way.
Memory says there was a pub at the south end where we reinforced
ourselves for the legging back, but Wikipedo mentions it not. Wikipedo
din exist then, nor I think most of its contributors, so surprised I
am not.
I had prevoiuoseley survived an apprenitiship with Stewarts & Lloyds at
Coombs Wood, so it was rather a nostalgia trip. If that's possible at
age 24.
Mike
A touch over 10 hecto-fortnights ago the Dudley Tunnel was re-opened and
with a group of mates I legged it all the way.
Memory says there was a pub at the south end where we reinforced
ourselves for the legging back, but Wikipedo mentions it not. Wikipedo
din exist then, nor I think most of its contributors, so surprised I
am not.
I had prevoiuoseley survived an apprenitiship with Stewarts & Lloyds at
Coombs Wood, so it was rather a nostalgia trip. If that's possible at
age 24.
Mike
Brian Gaff
Apr 25, 2014, 4:01:54 AM4/25/14
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I thought for a moment there you were going to say that due to the pollution
and poor air quality risk of going through a tunnel under power, you had
resorted to the old laying down and walking the boat g through using the
feet method.
That always frightened me, as it always looked like the bloke was going
get dragged off.
Brian
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and poor air quality risk of going through a tunnel under power, you had
resorted to the old laying down and walking the boat g through using the
feet method.
That always frightened me, as it always looked like the bloke was going
get dragged off.
Brian
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"R C Nesbit" <sp...@ukrm.net> wrote in message
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canaldrifter
Apr 25, 2014, 5:16:22 AM4/25/14
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On 24/04/2014 19:46, R C Nesbit wrote:
>
> And I was accused by a several of peepels of being very
> poetic!
>
> I hates pomes, I do!
>
So do most Ozzes.
>
> And I was accused by a several of peepels of being very
> poetic!
>
> I hates pomes, I do!
>
I would say your scratchings were less poem* more prose**.
*Nuffin rhymes
**Cue titters***
***Cue more titters****
**** Cue even more titters*****
***** etc
Tone
RustyHinge
Apr 25, 2014, 9:34:16 AM4/25/14
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On 24/04/14 19:46, R C Nesbit wrote:
> Today we entered through the Gates of Mordor!
>
> Well, the Harecastle Tunnel, to be egg sacked
>
> But only after a wait while a car wot some skrotes had
> dumped in the cut at the North portal was checked for
> bodies by the Polis and lifted out.
>
> I hate tunnels, I do.
> I'm not clostofobic, but if I am in an enclosed space and
> can see a light which looks like a hole too small for me to
> get through - as in the other end of the tunnel in the
> distance - I can feel anxiety building up.
>
> Anyway, we made it though without touching the sides, onto
> the Maccleslfeld canal (why do they make these boodly
> junctions so tight you would have prombles getting a Smart
> Car around let alone 15 tons of 57' x 7'
green
> Today we entered through the Gates of Mordor!
>
> Well, the Harecastle Tunnel, to be egg sacked
>
> But only after a wait while a car wot some skrotes had
> dumped in the cut at the North portal was checked for
> bodies by the Polis and lifted out.
>
> I hate tunnels, I do.
> I'm not clostofobic, but if I am in an enclosed space and
> can see a light which looks like a hole too small for me to
> get through - as in the other end of the tunnel in the
> distance - I can feel anxiety building up.
>
> Anyway, we made it though without touching the sides, onto
> the Maccleslfeld canal (why do they make these boodly
> junctions so tight you would have prombles getting a Smart
> Car around let alone 15 tons of 57' x 7'
> steel tube with a
> pointy bit at one end?)
> And we are now moored up just outside Congleton, by the
> side of a valley which is picture-book pretty, with little
> stone bridge over a stream and a humongous railway viaduct
> crossing it, and views to the Pennine foothills to the
> other direction.
>
> This boating lark is getting to me.
> I posted this on FB t'other day:
>
> "Tonights smoking room non-view.
> No camera can do justice to this!
> I stand at the back of Hekla, it is like living on the
> surface of a mirror!
> The trees reflected in the glass-smooth surface of the
> still waters.
> in the near distance a ridge, festooned with a garland of
> orange and white lights.
> Sometimes a cruise is like a grand tour of Englands back
> gardens, the scruffy, the ordinary, and the fabulous.
> But I would not exchange our ever changing view of their
> back gardens with their static view of our canal.
> We really are living the dream, and I sometimes pity those
> who can not share in our un-reality!"
>
> And I was accused by a several of peepels of being very
> poetic!
>
> I hates pomes, I do!
In which to float
And write
When tight
His daily annals
Of the cannals.
--
Rusty Hinge
To err is human. To really foul things up requires a computer and the BOFH.
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Adrian
Apr 25, 2014, 3:25:46 PM4/25/14
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In message <ljdo8p$4s5$1...@dont-email.me>, RustyHinge
<rusty...@foobar.girolle.co.uk> writes
Adrian
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<rusty...@foobar.girolle.co.uk> writes
>He has a boat (green, so it is)
>In which to float
>And write
>When tight
>His daily annals
>Of the cannals.
>
<applause>
>In which to float
>And write
>When tight
>His daily annals
>Of the cannals.
>
Adrian
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Nicholas D. Richards
Apr 30, 2014, 1:39:27 PM4/30/14
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In article <VA.00004ae...@ukrm.net>, R C Nesbit <sp...@ukrm.net>
on Thu, 24 Apr 2014 at 19:46:25 awoke Nicholas from his slumbers and
wrote
between the roof and the towpath. It took 5 or 6 beefy men, who had
worked their way from the North portal, along what remained of the
towpath, to come on board, to sink us down low enough to continue.
I had visions of the boat lifting the brick arch and collapsing the
whole roof on us.
It is easier now, that they have removed the towpath and done some
repair work on the roof.
was between bridge 89 and 87, if I remember rightly. Bridge 88 was a
swing bridge, I think, and its remains were still lying around in 1969.
The last time that I visited it was in 1979 or 80, when Emmy insisted
that we sit in the lounge, as my girlfriend was a Lady. The Lounge
really was a lounge, a Sunday best room.
There is a mention and photograph here:
http://www.adkins-family.org.uk/macclesfieldcanal.org.uk/kentgreen.htm
I do not remember her husband, but Emmy was quite a character. She was
always made up like a china doll, but wearing a wrap-around and
slippers.
"O� sont les neiges d'antan?"
on Thu, 24 Apr 2014 at 19:46:25 awoke Nicholas from his slumbers and
wrote
>Today we entered through the Gates of Mordor!
>
>Well, the Harecastle Tunnel, to be egg sacked
>
>But only after a wait while a car wot some skrotes had
>dumped in the cut at the North portal was checked for
>bodies by the Polis and lifted out.
>
>I hate tunnels, I do.
>I'm not clostofobic, but if I am in an enclosed space and
>can see a light which looks like a hole too small for me to
>get through - as in the other end of the tunnel in the
>distance - I can feel anxiety building up.
Know how you feel, but it is easier now than 1969, when we became stuck
>
>Well, the Harecastle Tunnel, to be egg sacked
>
>But only after a wait while a car wot some skrotes had
>dumped in the cut at the North portal was checked for
>bodies by the Polis and lifted out.
>
>I hate tunnels, I do.
>I'm not clostofobic, but if I am in an enclosed space and
>can see a light which looks like a hole too small for me to
>get through - as in the other end of the tunnel in the
>distance - I can feel anxiety building up.
between the roof and the towpath. It took 5 or 6 beefy men, who had
worked their way from the North portal, along what remained of the
towpath, to come on board, to sink us down low enough to continue.
I had visions of the boat lifting the brick arch and collapsing the
whole roof on us.
It is easier now, that they have removed the towpath and done some
repair work on the roof.
>
>Anyway, we made it though without touching the sides, onto
>the Maccleslfeld canal (why do they make these boodly
>junctions so tight you would have prombles getting a Smart
>Car around let alone 15 tons of 57' x 7' steel tube with a
>pointy bit at one end?)
>
>And we are now moored up just outside Congleton, by the
>side of a valley which is picture-book pretty, with little
>stone bridge over a stream and a humongous railway viaduct
>crossing it, and views to the Pennine foothills to the
>other direction.
Unfortunately the best canalside pub (The Bird in Hand) is no more. It
>Anyway, we made it though without touching the sides, onto
>the Maccleslfeld canal (why do they make these boodly
>junctions so tight you would have prombles getting a Smart
>Car around let alone 15 tons of 57' x 7' steel tube with a
>pointy bit at one end?)
>
>And we are now moored up just outside Congleton, by the
>side of a valley which is picture-book pretty, with little
>stone bridge over a stream and a humongous railway viaduct
>crossing it, and views to the Pennine foothills to the
>other direction.
was between bridge 89 and 87, if I remember rightly. Bridge 88 was a
swing bridge, I think, and its remains were still lying around in 1969.
The last time that I visited it was in 1979 or 80, when Emmy insisted
that we sit in the lounge, as my girlfriend was a Lady. The Lounge
really was a lounge, a Sunday best room.
There is a mention and photograph here:
http://www.adkins-family.org.uk/macclesfieldcanal.org.uk/kentgreen.htm
I do not remember her husband, but Emmy was quite a character. She was
always made up like a china doll, but wearing a wrap-around and
slippers.
>
>This boating lark is getting to me.
>I posted this on FB t'other day:
>
>"Tonights smoking room non-view.
>No camera can do justice to this!
>I stand at the back of Hekla, it is like living on the
>surface of a mirror!
>The trees reflected in the glass-smooth surface of the
>still waters.
>in the near distance a ridge, festooned with a garland of
>orange and white lights.
>Sometimes a cruise is like a grand tour of Englands back
>gardens, the scruffy, the ordinary, and the fabulous.
>But I would not exchange our ever changing view of their
>back gardens with their static view of our canal.
>We really are living the dream, and I sometimes pity those
>who can not share in our un-reality!"
>
>And I was accused by a several of peepels of being very
>poetic!
>
>I hates pomes, I do!
>
--
Nicholas David Richards -
>This boating lark is getting to me.
>I posted this on FB t'other day:
>
>"Tonights smoking room non-view.
>No camera can do justice to this!
>I stand at the back of Hekla, it is like living on the
>surface of a mirror!
>The trees reflected in the glass-smooth surface of the
>still waters.
>in the near distance a ridge, festooned with a garland of
>orange and white lights.
>Sometimes a cruise is like a grand tour of Englands back
>gardens, the scruffy, the ordinary, and the fabulous.
>But I would not exchange our ever changing view of their
>back gardens with their static view of our canal.
>We really are living the dream, and I sometimes pity those
>who can not share in our un-reality!"
>
>And I was accused by a several of peepels of being very
>poetic!
>
>I hates pomes, I do!
>
--
"O� sont les neiges d'antan?"
Stanley Daniel de Liver
Apr 30, 2014, 3:25:51 PM4/30/14
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On Wed, 30 Apr 2014 18:39:27 +0100, Nicholas D. Richards
<nich...@salmiron.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> In article <VA.00004ae...@ukrm.net>, R C Nesbit <sp...@ukrm.net>
> on Thu, 24 Apr 2014 at 19:46:25 awoke Nicholas from his slumbers and
> wrote
>> Today we entered through the Gates of Mordor!
[] proper pubs:
<nich...@salmiron.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> In article <VA.00004ae...@ukrm.net>, R C Nesbit <sp...@ukrm.net>
> on Thu, 24 Apr 2014 at 19:46:25 awoke Nicholas from his slumbers and
> wrote
>> Today we entered through the Gates of Mordor!
>
> Unfortunately the best canalside pub (The Bird in Hand) is no more. It
> was between bridge 89 and 87, if I remember rightly. Bridge 88 was a
> swing bridge, I think, and its remains were still lying around in 1969.
> The last time that I visited it was in 1979 or 80, when Emmy insisted
> that we sit in the lounge, as my girlfriend was a Lady. The Lounge
> really was a lounge, a Sunday best room.
>
> There is a mention and photograph here:
>
> http://www.adkins-family.org.uk/macclesfieldcanal.org.uk/kentgreen.htm
>
> I do not remember her husband, but Emmy was quite a character. She was
> always made up like a china doll, but wearing a wrap-around and
> slippers.
There's not many left now, esp canalside ones.
> Unfortunately the best canalside pub (The Bird in Hand) is no more. It
> was between bridge 89 and 87, if I remember rightly. Bridge 88 was a
> swing bridge, I think, and its remains were still lying around in 1969.
> The last time that I visited it was in 1979 or 80, when Emmy insisted
> that we sit in the lounge, as my girlfriend was a Lady. The Lounge
> really was a lounge, a Sunday best room.
>
> There is a mention and photograph here:
>
> http://www.adkins-family.org.uk/macclesfieldcanal.org.uk/kentgreen.htm
>
> I do not remember her husband, but Emmy was quite a character. She was
> always made up like a china doll, but wearing a wrap-around and
> slippers.
[]
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