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Post by thebfg on Mar 21, 2017 13:47:36 GMT
Quite funny seeing a good example of muscle with such a ridiculous little watch on the wrist ! Is that not a fitbit. It's a heart rate monitor for tracking activity.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2017 13:50:38 GMT
No dirt under his nails either.
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Post by naughtyfox on Mar 21, 2017 14:39:27 GMT
Dunno - but the background does look a bit like just west of the River Calder, sort of 'at the end' of the C&H canal - if going east you would drop into the river at the last lock, turn right and right for Huddersfield Broad, and right and left for continuation to C&H in direction of Mirfield.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2017 14:55:18 GMT
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Post by thebfg on Mar 21, 2017 17:11:33 GMT
You may be right. What a cheaparse.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2017 17:19:13 GMT
Yes and making the most of the gym membership by the look of it.
I bought a book about weightlifting ages ago. It was a really good quality book, hardback with loads of pages. Unfortunately I was unable to pick it up so I gave up on the idea.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Mar 21, 2017 17:47:21 GMT
Update. I'm in Rugeley. It's raining. Renowned boat fitter Malcolm Rhodes, who was Desiree's original owner is coming to visit tomorrow. Some trivia about Rugeley, which may or may not be bollocks. Notorious Victorian poisoner Dr William Palmer was hanged in public in Rugeley in 1856. Such was his notoriety that residents petitioned the Prime Minister for the town's name to be changed. The Prime Minister said "Certainly, but only if you name it after me". The Prime Minister was Palmerston.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2017 18:07:01 GMT
I went through Rugeley in 1995 and again in 1999. Is that where the armitage shanks factory is? Only thing I really remember is that on my first visit I had to stop because my lister SR2 had a fuel leak which topped the lube oil up enough to breach the piston rings and it ran away. Stupid amounts of white smoke everywhere. Bad.
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Post by naughtyfox on Mar 21, 2017 19:45:30 GMT
June 2015 we too stopped overnight in Rugeley, a few yards north of the Leathermill Lane bridge. Went shopping in Morrisons. Soon you'll cross the River Trent. The next time you cross the Trent will be in Stoke-on-Trent. I'd recommend a stroll through Shugborough Park - costs nothing.
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Post by JohnV on Mar 21, 2017 19:49:04 GMT
Shugborough Hall is well worth a visit (NT property)
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Post by Mr Stabby on Mar 22, 2017 11:42:43 GMT
Just had Malcolm Rhodes along, a fascinating and very knowledgeable man.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2017 11:50:05 GMT
How old is Desiree, and has it changed since he finished his work, or is it all original as he remembers it?
Sorry, just being nosey.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Mar 22, 2017 11:59:57 GMT
How old is Desiree, and has it changed since he finished his work, or is it all original as he remembers it? Sorry, just being nosey. Rog She was built in 1987. Externally nothing has changed and she is still in the original paint, internally there have been a few changes, a gas water heater removed and replaced with a cupboard, alterations to the cupboard in the cabin which I posted pics of a few weeks ago and a new galley, but she's 90% original. Malcolm told me that the iroko wood which forms most of the interior fit-out cost over £2,000, thirty years ago, and I can well believe it.
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Post by aquarat on Mar 22, 2017 12:21:51 GMT
We are at shugborough at the mo, they have just opened it yesterday I believe, I was once asked what Rugeley was famous for....tescos said I. Still goes down well! Actually donkey jackets and a canal murder I think.
Will give you a wave if I spot you dodging the rain
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2017 13:24:45 GMT
Apart from Palmer the poisoner's house, in the church yard across the road from his house is the grave of Christina Collins who was murdered by the crew of a narrow boat. Her body was carried up 'the bloody steps' which are by the Trent aqueduct as you leave Rugeley.
It was based on this story that Colin Dexter wrote 'The Wench is Dead' a Morse book.
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