Adrian Stott wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 20:58:43 +0100, dave hearnden > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Adrian, >> >> I actually find your comments fail to grasp a simple concept. >> >> Use it or lose it, > > Indeed. But my point is that the Slough branch has very little going > for it, so if we *have* to lose any waterways it might well be on the > list. Because I don't feel much desire to use it, I suppose I > wouldn't feel too bad to lose it. > > Unless it becomes part of a through route to the Thames, of course. > >> It might be a surprise to you that I had been trying to get a I*A >> campaign boat rally on the Slough Arm for 2011 I failed to achieve >> due to time. > > Go for it. If enough people want to preserve it, then of course it > should be retained (and maintained). It's not that I have any > philosophical opposition to the waterway.
I think Terry has developed a philosophical opposition to it ;-) We found it much the same, but getting shallower at the worse point (now just 2ft before the silt starts), just before the overhanging willow tree, beside the housing, below Bridge 11, Uxbridge Road Bridge -- Neil Arlidge Barge Maurice A / NB Earnest TNC http://www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk/tour.html
