myblueboat wrote: > well said .we can do without his likes on the canals .tell that to > your editor.
Blueboat, you are safe if you are narrow :-) -- Neil Arlidge - NB Earnest - narrow, but not narrow minded. Read about the TNC travels at: http://www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk Defend the waterways - Ne sutor ultra crepidam http://www.saveourwaterways.org.uk/ > > > > --- In [email protected], "Bob Wood" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On 11/03/2008, Adrian Stott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> simon hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> wrote: >> >>>> 1. I am NOT a residential boater ! >>>> 2. BW Have NEVER offered me suitable alternative moorings ! >>>> 3. Where is my apology ? >> >>> In Waterways World, 2007 July, page 51 there is a report on BW's >>> initiative to reduce the number of towpath moorings. BW is > quoted as >>> saying that for every ten new offline moorings created, ten towpath >>> moorings will be closed. >>> >>> In the Sawley area, 280 new moorings were created at Pillings > Lock on >>> the Soar. >>> >>> BW has told me that it informed all those on the towpath moorings it >>> would not be renewing (I believe all those moorings were on one- >>> year terms, and that BW had the right not to renew them) at Sawley >>> and Beeston that moorings would be available at Pillings. >>> >>> In Towpath Talk of 2007 July 12, page 2, BW is reported to be >>> attempting to persuade those using towpath moorings not to be >>> renewed to move to Pillings.. >>> >>> Operators of some off-line moorings are unwilling to accept boats >>> used residentially. However, there is no such problem with non- >>> residential boats (unless of course they have some other >>> significant flaw, such as lack of a licence or BSS, or offensive >>> scruffiness). >>> >>> As a result, I stand by my statement. >>> >>> So my answer to the question in 3. above is "Where's mine?" >> >> >> Adrian >> >> Is it any wonder that people think of you as a boor. You have >> written absolutely nothing to refute either of simon's assertions >> that he is not a residential boater and that he has never received >> an offer of suitable alternative moorings. Quoting woolly passages >> from Waterways World and Towpath Talk do nothing to prove that what >> simon says is not absolutely true. >> >> I do wonder why you consider that you are due an apology in view of >> your offensiveness and deceptive statements in relation to simon's >> individual case.
