On 18 Jun 2008 at 11:18, Neil Arlidge wrote:
> John and Ann wrote:
> > Now if you really want a case of speeding take a look at:-
>
> <controversial mode on>
>
> Not that I condon this...but...they are young and having fun on the
> waterways.
> Only a handful of youngsters now do this.
> If they are caught and punished, instead of being "educated" and encouraged
> then they will be turned away from being potential boaters of the future,
> probably turning against boaters and other waterway users.
> I rember some of our early 1970's hireboat holidays and behaving, by what
> some people at the time would have been called outrageous. I know a lot of
> present day (now upper middle aged) boaters that would admit to that.
> As "British Waterways" is now the most expensive (and soon to be most
> regulated???) place to boat in Europe, it is refreshing to see that there
> are quite a lot of younger boaters in Ireland, encouraged by the the more
> liberal regime and considerably cheaper cost of boating.
>
> <controversial mode off>
Well said that man!
I am beginning to think that our government will soon only be allowing
officially
sanctioned (and paid for) fun. It wouldn't do for young people to do their own
thing would it?
DK - grumpy but fun ;-)
--
David Kitching
http://www.brocross.com
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