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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2020 20:56:17 GMT
I'll resist posting my bloody nose again Trina ... but it was definitely a bite Rog
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Post by Clinton Cool on Aug 29, 2020 20:57:35 GMT
I rarely venture out to eating or drinking places. However, I make an exception when I'm in Bollington. The Vale is highly recommended. Excellent beer from its own brewery. I can't comment on food. If I want food I cook some before I go to the pub which for me, is to drink.
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Post by naughtyfox on Aug 29, 2020 21:13:28 GMT
'Baa-mouth' - haha - naughties with sheeps!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2020 22:39:41 GMT
The farm shop near the services does fabulous breakfasts ... I had a sausage, bacon and black pudding butty on brown bread from there. This is the kind of information that boaters need. A kind of michelin guide for the canals- showing places you can scoff a quality bacon roll or a pie, as opposed to poncy cuisiney things. I've already made a note of the pie shop near Hawkesbury junction mentioned by either magnetman or nemesis (two fine superhero names, btw). Whichever of those fine gentlemen it was, my thanks are still sincere, and I shall make a point of clearing my fridge to make pie-space as I approach that hallowed place. frankparkerbutchers.co.uk/product-category/pies/Somebody should compile a boaters grub and pub guide. I'd do it myself obviously, but I dont know a damn thing about boating, and at the moment I'm too busy chasing my tail up to Northampton before my visitors license expires. It was the yorkie eating, prostitute killing, dead animal transporting, yellow moped riding, hair dying, farm living, rover driving boater that shared Frank Parker’s pie place
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2020 22:49:02 GMT
'Baa-mouth' - haha - naughties with sheeps! It's pronounced Barmuth. Nothing to do with sheep at all. The Welsh aren't a bad lot really. They have a lot of crack problems in the valleys but you've got Terry Griffiths who was a really good snooker player and does the accent properly. There must be other good things. I was a resident of Wales from 2 to 5 years old. On a sheep farm my parents owned. Not farmers just dickhead money twats. My lovely memory of the place was seeing one of the sheep having its eyes pecked out by crows while it was still alive. The bleeding was a bit nasty. I don't like crows much these days. Wales is probably ok though to be fair!
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Post by Clinton Cool on Aug 29, 2020 22:58:19 GMT
'Baa-mouth' - haha - naughties with sheeps! It's pronounced Barmuth. Nothing to do with sheep at all. The Welsh aren't a bad lot really. They have a lot of crack problems in the valleys but you've got Terry Griffiths who was a really good snooker player and does the accent properly. There must be other good things. I was a resident of Wales from 2 to 5 years old. On a sheep farm my parents owned. Not farmers just dickhead money twats. My lovely memory of the place was seeing one of the sheep having its eyes pecked out by crows while it was still alive. The bleeding was a bit nasty. I don't like crows much these days. Wales is probably ok though to be fair! I admire someone who can describe their parents on an internet forum as dickhead money twats. Mine aren't so rich. Middle class for sure and gave me the best upbringing they possibly could. A misguided one though. It's only fairly recently that I've come to realise how weird my dad is. Doesn't make him a bad person, he did the best he possibly could with the character he has but my God, if I had kids, no way would I bring them up the way I was brought up.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2020 23:07:11 GMT
My old man fucked off with a younger woman when I was 11 leaving me to spend my teenage years with my nutter mother and sisters.
Too many women about !
Then I spent a decade traveling about with the mother on the cut. We each had our own narrow boat.
And now I have a woman and two children and guess what. The kids are girls.
What the heck?
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Post by Clinton Cool on Aug 29, 2020 23:28:40 GMT
A few short straws drawn there.
I suppose it's natural for parents to want their children to go one step further than them. Given that my dad was the finance director for the regional bus company there was a bit of pressure on me. Looking back it was probably a bit traumatic living in different countries and being schooled in different languages. Overall though I think that's a positive thing. What wasn't so great was going to a comprehensive school when your parents instilled in you that you were better than the other children. Official school uniform for me and a top quality leather briefcase while most others had cheap copies and carried their stuff in a plastic bag. I got sick of being bullied after a couple of years and resorted to violence. It felt good, and stayed with me for a decade or more. 30 years on I still feel drawn to excesses, without violence. I'm not sure I feel angry with my dad or sorry for him. If he hadn't told me at the age of 11 that I should always walk away from trouble, regardless, I might not have had a decade when the greatest thrill in life was getting out of the back of a transit van for a football match 200 miles from home, knowing there would be opposing fans in the area. I've probably said too much now.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2020 23:59:21 GMT
The constant engine runner left this morning. Peace at last. Bliss. 30 yard or so gap in front of my boat. I was just washing up when a boat approached from the front. He stern drew level with me then rammed his engine into full reverse, rocking my boat. He then reversed back into the space in front of me. There's a moderate wind, blowing across the canal towards the towpath. This pushed his bow round and into my boat. He then scraped back along maybe 10ft of my boat and is now moored in front of me. The conditions were perfect for just very slowly ambling up to the spot, at least 3 times his boat length, sidling in, the wind would make sure he was nice and tight to the bank. He could have used a touch of reverse coming in but even that wasn't needed. Just amble in, nice and slow, take the centre rope and bring the boat to a stop. He's just finished knocking his mooring pins in (he only needed to use 1, there's a ring less than 10 feet from where he is) and has now retired into his boat in his dayglo jacket. No apology, nothing. This isn't a hire boat with inexperienced crew, it looks like a liveaboard. It amazes me how many people have so little common sense, let alone basic boating skills, and basic manners. I had someone bash in to me, just after passing, or so I thought, a bit of wind, but I guess he did not see the strong stream from a bye-wash.
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Post by patty on Aug 30, 2020 6:20:40 GMT
Whatever our upbringing it started moulding the who we became.... Ours a bit grim in that mum bedridden for ages with severe arthritis, dad worked away some of the time and so we were left to the tender mercies of a gran. She openly referred to little sis n me as queer little things and wanted one of us dead but doted on big brother. We got by, I became used to shutting up and staying in the background allowing little sis centre stage. Our education though was the best they could sort with what they had. However whatever my childhood and subsequent events I like the who I am now..its just took sorta 60 plus years to get here..... I now need at least a few more decades to really make the most of a lifetime of learning how to live....
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Post by metanoia on Aug 30, 2020 18:52:16 GMT
The farm shop near the services does fabulous breakfasts ... I had a sausage, bacon and black pudding butty on brown bread from there. This is the kind of information that boaters need. A kind of michelin guide for the canals- showing places you can scoff a quality bacon roll or a pie, as opposed to poncy cuisiney things. I've already made a note of the pie shop near Hawkesbury junction mentioned by either magnetman or nemesis (two fine superhero names, btw). Whichever of those fine gentlemen it was, my thanks are still sincere, and I shall make a point of clearing my fridge to make pie-space as I approach that hallowed place. frankparkerbutchers.co.uk/product-category/pies/Somebody should compile a boaters grub and pub guide. I'd do it myself obviously, but I dont know a damn thing about boating, and at the moment I'm too busy chasing my tail up to Northampton before my visitors license expires. Yes, but - you really need to check such information. That is certainly NOT a farm shop but a cheese factory along the main road into Chester Excellent cheeses and butter, good breakfast (pre covid) but NO farms nor farm produce. (a bit like one person's opinion of Banbury when my experience was kids throwing stones at your boat and tossing lit cigarettes in your hoppers - not my top three!) Good luck @tonyc - you'll work it out for yourself very soon. Take care, keep safe and happy travelling
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2020 19:19:37 GMT
This is the kind of information that boaters need. A kind of michelin guide for the canals- showing places you can scoff a quality bacon roll or a pie, as opposed to poncy cuisiney things. I've already made a note of the pie shop near Hawkesbury junction mentioned by either magnetman or nemesis (two fine superhero names, btw). Whichever of those fine gentlemen it was, my thanks are still sincere, and I shall make a point of clearing my fridge to make pie-space as I approach that hallowed place. frankparkerbutchers.co.uk/product-category/pies/Somebody should compile a boaters grub and pub guide. I'd do it myself obviously, but I dont know a damn thing about boating, and at the moment I'm too busy chasing my tail up to Northampton before my visitors license expires. Yes, but - you really need to check such information. That is certainly NOT a farm shop but a cheese factory along the main road into Chester Excellent cheeses and butter, good breakfast (pre covid) but NO farms nor farm produce. (a bit like one person's opinion of Banbury when my experience was kids throwing stones at your boat and tossing lit cigarettes in your hoppers - not my top three!) Good luck @tonyc - you'll work it out for yourself very soon. Take care, keep safe and happy travelling A cheese factory you say? That is a bit disappointing... Don't get me wrong, I like a bit of cheese as much as the next person, but cheese factories are not going to make it into the 'most favoured' category of eateries and food shops in my Gluttons Canal Guide. Likewise cafes that sell nice afternoon teas. I'm looking for recommendations of places that serve proper grub- a full english, a breakfast roll or a bacon on toast say- or maybe a high-quality pie or two (I think two). I can chew on salad leaves and the boring healthier stuff in the privacy of my own boat, but when I'm out and about, and paying good money for scoff, it has to be bad for me, or where's the fun? I dont think it helps that I lost 90% of my sense of smell during the Aussie flue over two years ago, so blander foods aren't very tasty any more. I'm looking to spend the winter in Cheshire (assuming I ever bloody get there), so I'll be looking for some top tips on quality farm shops and eateries handy for the cut.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2020 19:36:26 GMT
Calverley Mill canalside cafe ... not a farm shop ... looks like a farm shop ... but not a farm shop.
Smashing cafe ... still open and doing great business.
Sorry others have had bad experiences at Banbury ... I didn't know about your bad experiences ... I like it because of our good experiences on many visits.
Rog
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Post by Clinton Cool on Aug 30, 2020 21:34:59 GMT
The Old Barbridge Inn in, wait for it...Barbridge has a nice outdoor area right next to the canal. Good spot to have a few beers on a warm day. Can't comment on the food, I don't eat in pubs but from what I saw, like most pubs, it was likely to be distinctly average. Putting crap chips in mugs, baskets, tin pots or other containers doesn't make them any better than crap chips served on a plate.
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Post by quaysider on Aug 31, 2020 7:25:15 GMT
Yesterday whilst going past (on tickover) moored boats just before Black prince on the T & M, another boat came the other way and - him being a hirer, I extended my usual bit of "extra courtesy" to make up for the other grumpy boaters they encounter... school boy error. I DID have plenty of room to avoid touching the boat I was mid way pssing... until it lurched out (it not being tied very tightly) and i rubbed along it's floating wheel barrow wheel (put there for exactly this reason) and in the process, the little wooden square hook holding it on to his handrail snapped off with a loud bang.
Unlike many folks. i immediately pulled in and went back to apologize to the chap. He was a) MOST surprised I'd come back to say sorry and b) a lovely friendly chap who was just a bit sick of boats clonking him hence the wheels. I offered to replace the broken wooden hook with one of mine but he wouldn't hear of it.
Ironically, if he hadn't HAD the wheels down, I'd have missed him totally.
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