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Post by kris on Oct 29, 2017 19:30:18 GMT
I met a really interesting couple off a really nice narrowboat this afternoon. We had a very interesting discussion about alsorts of things, but obviously being boaters a lot of it was boats and waterways related. Some of the things they told me about what's happening on the waterways in London really quite shocked me. I don't think I quite realised how bad it has really got down there. It sounds horrendous and I don't know if I can quite imagine the reality of living on a boat in the capital. Anyway their conclusion was that they are not going back there again unless they really have to. After talking to them for quite a while( they are both very interesting people.) it dawned on me these are possibly the first boat refugees fleeing London insearch of pastures new that I have met. Is this the start of a reverse in the trend of boats heading to the smoke? After some of the stories they told me I am worried and think immediate action should be taken. All waterways leaving the capital should be blocked and no more boats allowed to leave, okay this couple are nice. But what happens when all the other flotsam and jetsam start drifting out?
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Post by Telemachus on Oct 29, 2017 19:32:53 GMT
So were these folk previously CCing around London for a while? Or had they just visited?
And what exactly was horrendous and shocking?
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Post by kris on Oct 29, 2017 19:35:46 GMT
So were these folk previously CCing around London for a while? Or had they just visited? And what exactly was horrendous and shocking? I thought you were watching strictly?
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Post by Telemachus on Oct 29, 2017 19:36:59 GMT
So were these folk previously CCing around London for a while? Or had they just visited? And what exactly was horrendous and shocking? I thought you were watching strictly? One of the advantages of being a poofter is that one inherits the female attribute of multi-tasking!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2017 19:39:40 GMT
We met a couple this summer, who were relocating from London, to cruise the Stratford area as they have work there (thespians).
Very pleasant couple.
I suspect many will seek to move out of the centre to find a better way of life, certainly the committed boaters.
Rog
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Post by Mr Stabby on Oct 29, 2017 19:45:16 GMT
I met lots of nice and friendly boat dwellers when I was in London last year. There is a totally different mentality to London boaters, who typically seem to have no interest in boating per se but who cannot afford mortgages or rent and generally contrive to move their boats as infrequently as possible and for the shortest distance possible. It may as well be a lock-up garage or a garden shed to them.
This doesn't make them "bad people" although their presence does make it very difficult for visiting boaters to moor.
I doubt the couple you met herald the beginning of an exodus. Most London boat dwellers seem to have media, banking and advertising jobs which are only available in London and so in London they will stay, unless and until CRT make their lifestyle impossible to continue. The wider problem is of course the horrendous housing shortage in the UK.
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Post by kris on Oct 29, 2017 19:45:16 GMT
We met a couple this summer, who were relocating from London, to cruise the Stratford area as they have work there (thespians). Very pleasant couple. I suspect many will seek to move out of the centre to find a better way of life, certainly the committed boaters. Rog Yes it's alright rog, the committed boaters will leave first. But what about when the rest get the same idea? We need to block all waterways now. Well except the Thames heading downstream any boater who has the wearwithal to leave London by the tide way and head round the coast should be allowed to.
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Post by kris on Oct 29, 2017 19:47:36 GMT
I met lots of nice and friendly boat dwellers when I was in London last year. There is a totally different mentality to London boaters, who typically seem to have no interest in boating per se but who cannot afford mortgages or rent and generally contrive to move their boats as infrequently as possible and for the shortest distance possible. It may as well be a lock-up garage or a garden shed to them. This doesn't make them "bad people" although their presence does make it very difficult for visiting boaters to moor. I doubt the couple you met herald the beginning of an exodus. Most London boat dwellers seem to have media, banking and advertising jobs which are only available in London and so in London they will stay, unless and until CRT make their lifestyle impossible to continue. The wider problem is of course the horrendous housing shortage in the UK. I thought the thread title might grab your attention.
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Post by kris on Oct 29, 2017 19:53:17 GMT
I thought you were watching strictly?Β One of the advantages of being a poofter is that one inherits the female attribute of multi-tasking! i won't ask who wears the trousers in your relationship then.
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Post by Telemachus on Oct 29, 2017 19:54:15 GMT
One of the advantages of being a poofter is that one inherits the female attribute of multi-tasking! i won't ask who wears the trousers in your relationship then. Did I mention that we are nudists?
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refugees?
Oct 29, 2017 19:55:31 GMT
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Post by kris on Oct 29, 2017 19:55:31 GMT
i won't ask who wears the trousers in your relationship then. Did I mention that we are nudists? yes biut who gives and who receives?
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Post by Telemachus on Oct 29, 2017 19:57:51 GMT
Did I mention that we are nudists? yes biut who gives and who receives? It is better to give than to receive. Well thatβs what mummy always used to say at Christmas time.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Oct 29, 2017 20:01:50 GMT
I met lots of nice and friendly boat dwellers when I was in London last year. There is a totally different mentality to London boaters, who typically seem to have no interest in boating per se but who cannot afford mortgages or rent and generally contrive to move their boats as infrequently as possible and for the shortest distance possible. It may as well be a lock-up garage or a garden shed to them. This doesn't make them "bad people" although their presence does make it very difficult for visiting boaters to moor. I doubt the couple you met herald the beginning of an exodus. Most London boat dwellers seem to have media, banking and advertising jobs which are only available in London and so in London they will stay, unless and until CRT make their lifestyle impossible to continue. The wider problem is of course the horrendous housing shortage in the UK. I thought the thread title might grab your attention. Well, not really, because the thread title is erroneous. Boaters who leave London to moor elsewhere are not refugees by any accepted definition of the word, a refugee is universally held to mean a person fleeing their native country, generally to a foreign country, to escape war, persecution or violence.
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Oct 29, 2017 20:18:06 GMT
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Post by kris on Oct 29, 2017 20:18:06 GMT
I thought the thread title might grab your attention. Well, not really, because the thread title is erroneous. Boaters who leave London to moor elsewhere are not refugees by any accepted definition of the word, a refugee is universally held to mean a person fleeing their native country, generally to a foreign country, to escape war, persecution or violence.Β yes exactly london is another country and the three things you mention sound like life on the cut in the smoke.
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Oct 29, 2017 20:22:07 GMT
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Post by Trina on Oct 29, 2017 20:22:07 GMT
We met a couple this summer, who were relocating from London, to cruise the Stratford area as they have work there (thespians). Very pleasant couple. I suspect many will seek to move out of the centre to find a better way of life, certainly the committed boaters. Rog Thespians...is it legal ?π
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