Steve, I'm OK early next week, let me know when and where you are. Pat
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: 09 September 2009 17:51 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [canals-list] Fascinating mooring Pat, it would be great to have a drink, but at the moment I'm on my way back home. I'm up again next Monday or Tuesday with Moira and we're going to be around for a few days doing some walking. Top of the list is the Cromford which Mike showed me when I was up last. It's so beautiful! People don't realise. Steve Sent using BlackBerry® from Orange -----Original Message----- From: "Patrick Morriss" <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 17:37:41 To: <[email protected]> Subject: RE: [canals-list] Fascinating mooring Steve, You do talks for us at Ironville (Friends of the Cromford Canal, and I'm the Chair). If I don't know where you are it would be a sad loss. I'd come over and buy you a pint, but I'm setting up for an Antique Fair. But Cromford and Nottingham canals ticked off! Pat Morriss -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: 09 September 2009 17:32 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [canals-list] Fascinating mooring No, it's open again. Indeed, I was in there last night, and I'm moored adjacent to it now :-) 10/10 for getting onto me so quickly. Steve Sent using BlackBerry® from Orange -----Original Message----- From: "Patrick Morriss" <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 17:05:24 To: <[email protected]> Subject: RE: [canals-list] Fascinating mooring Steve, Shame the 'Great Northern' is closed! Pat Morriss -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: 09 September 2009 16:59 To: [email protected] Subject: [canals-list] Fascinating mooring I've just moved from the Cromford to the Nottingham Canal where I've moored. Which information should tell you precisely where I am - somewhere I suspect even Neil 'Bin Everywhere' Arlidge hasn't even visited. :-) Steve Sent using BlackBerry® from Orange -----Original Message----- From: "Bru" <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2009 17:38:37 To: <[email protected]> Subject: RE: [canals-list] In the Saturday Telegraph travel section - more canal dreamery What a load of drivel! And how interesting that the authors of what must be one of the most inappropriately titled books I've ever heard of sold their boat and moved ashore two years ago! I wonder why? Could it have had something to do with the ever increasing costs of boat ownership perhaps? As for the young coming to the canals - Glen and I were pretty much the youngest canal enthusiasts we knew of when we started boating some 20 odd years ago. Nearly a quarter of a century later ... we still are! No way could my kids, the eldest of whom is getting on for the same age as I was then, even contemplate boat ownership. They couldn't even afford to hire a boat for a week - and why should they when they can take a family of four for fortnight in Marbella for half the cost or less The canals definitely boomed ... about a decade ago. As far as I'm concerned it's been downhill all the way since then. With all due respect to those who can afford it, I look around today and I just don't see the affordable boats around anymore. After hiring for a week, we promptly went out and bought a small, elderly but serviceable plastic margarine tub. We fairly promptly swapped it for a slightly bigger and better plastic boat. We had as much fun with that boat over the next ten years as any other (although Badger came close - but then she was pretty cheap anyway!) I can't remember the last time I saw a plastic cruiser on the cut (although to be fair, I hardly ever get down to the water these days - the only boat I clapped eyes on at the bl**dy National was a barge and that was a static exhibit on the bank and I only saw *that* from a distance! I understand there *were* boats there but I never got to see 'em!!!) It's all gone a bit up-market and WAY too expensive for my tastes. Sour grapes? Perhaps! If I won the lottery it might be different! Bru > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Captain Beeky > Sent: 05 September 2009 11:16 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [canals-list] In the Saturday Telegraph travel section - more > canal dreamery > > Nestling near the weekly report on the price of the average British > gnome, see . . . . > > http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/outdoors/6128480/Cool-canal-authors- > take-the-slow-boat.html > bijou snippette >> > > The National Waterways Museums, split between three different > locations, celebrate the enterprise, ingenuity and sheer elbow grease > that made British canals the envy of the world. They may seem idyllic, > meandering through green fields, but they connect us to a working > world, industrial rather than pastoral. > > To say that British canals are booming would be an exaggeration, the > kind of hype that is completely alien to canal folk, who are a gentle, > soft-spoken tribe. But they are certainly enjoying a modest > renaissance. After years when their decline seemed a historic > inevitability, they appear to have regained their niche in public > affection. > > It used to be mainly middle-aged men you saw at the helm of > narrowboats: Horatio Nelson manqués, barking instructions at > bedraggled wives called Hester or Gloria. But the young are also > discovering the joys of canals. Little by little, it has become a more > inclusive world, where all are welcome and nobody looks down on anyone > else. > > << end > > Read the whole thing and contrast with the lock queues & financial > realities - OK there are some references to tight funding in the piece. > > I don't know who else has seen the graphic liveries on the latest BW > vans imploring everybody to enjoy the leisure facilities provided by > the local waterways. I have so far resisted the temptation to > graffitize with " Don't worry it's free - a boater will pay" > > Beeky > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links
