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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2021 19:10:04 GMT
There is a run off just at the top lock, drains down into the reservoir which must be full, hopefully it isn't owned by CRT and is well looked after. On the subject of that, you can no longer moor below the reservoir on the offside, crt have put up little no mooring signs and asked on social media, hame really as its a nice spot on piling. Just went up to the aqueduct to have a look at the boat on the way back from a certain food retail outlet that I shall not name. To be honest even with my torch I couldn't see it all that well, but there doesn't seem to be any listing as far as I could see, and everything is tied on and secure. The otter family living in the saloon said to say hi. I'll pop back up there in a few days and have a look in daylight.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Jan 20, 2021 19:11:57 GMT
If you can earn a living whilst enjoying what you do you've 'swum the channel' in my view Contentment is worth a lot. My view too. My job as an HGV driver isn't exactly held in very high regard in the scheme of things but for as long as I can remember I've been obsessed with travel. At the age of 10 I was travelling the length and breadth of London on the Red Rover all-day bus passes you used to be able to get, at 14 I hitch-hiked from London to Loch Ossian in Scotland and even blagged a ride from Rannoch to Corrour in the cab of a goods train. So I saw getting an HGV licence as a way to travel further afield and get paid for doing it- as I frequently point out I am very mean. Through driving a truck and the time off at destinations I've seen Red Square in Moscow, the Reichstag in Berlin, Dolbamache Palace and the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, been up the Eiffel Tower at twilight, taken cable cars to mountaintops in Switzerland, seen the Little Mermaid Statue in Copenhagen, climbed the Potemkin Steps in Odessa, explored Prague, Budapest, Warsaw, Bucharest, had numerous weekends being paid to lay on a beach or by a swimming pool in Spain, plus loads more that I won't bore you with. By comparison doing two runs a day from Rugby to Minworth a day is fairly unadventurous, but it isn't too demanding and it pays for the narrowboating. It's better than working for a living.
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Post by metanoia on Jan 20, 2021 19:17:33 GMT
There is a run off just at the top lock, drains down into the reservoir which must be full, hopefully it isn't owned by CRT and is well looked after. On the subject of that, you can no longer moor below the reservoir on the offside, crt have put up little no mooring signs and asked on social media, hame really as its a nice spot on piling. Just went up to the aqueduct to have a look at the boat on the way back from a certain food retail outlet that I shall not name. To be honest even with my torch I couldn't see it all that well, but there doesn't seem to be any listing as far as I could see, and everything is tied on and secure. The otter family living in the saloon said to say hi. I'll pop back up there in a few days and have a look in daylight. Well done, @tonyc - those steps are no mean feat! I think I reported back that the bilge pump was working very well on Christmas Eve - but I can't comment on the resident kettle family - though all looked calm as I passed (at LESS than tickover!).
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2021 19:29:20 GMT
Just went up to the aqueduct to have a look at the boat on the way back from a certain food retail outlet that I shall not name. To be honest even with my torch I couldn't see it all that well, but there doesn't seem to be any listing as far as I could see, and everything is tied on and secure. The otter family living in the saloon said to say hi. I'll pop back up there in a few days and have a look in daylight. Well done, @tonyc - those steps are no mean feat! I think I reported back that the bilge pump was working very well on Christmas Eve - but I can't comment on the resident kettle family - though all looked calm as I passed (at LESS than tickover!). There was one thing that slightly concerned me- the boat appears to be floating in some sort of shallow ditch filled with water, with a path running alongside it. I'm sure I've seen these water-filled ditches before, but at the moment I cant quite recall when it was
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2021 19:42:14 GMT
.. at 14 I hitch-hiked from London to Loch Ossian in Scotland That's interesting. My name until I was 11 was Ossian but I changed it to andrew due to issues with idiots at school taking the piss. I've never been to the loch itself. Near Glencoe I think it is. Would be nice to visit one day. I also never found out why I was given that name due to having a non productive relationship with the old man after age 11. "Stranger to me" job. It's quite a nice name for a person but not when everyone thinks you are a weird fucker.
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Post by Trina on Jan 20, 2021 19:45:58 GMT
Told them at work today I would be leaving soon to go away cruising and they were pretty devastated. I could hear the young girls on the Traffic Desk sobbing and weeping quietly in the background, Similar thing happened here when you disappeared from the forum for a couple of days but it wasn't young girls it was grown men! That is both worrying & rather frightening ๐ฑ
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Post by Mr Stabby on Jan 20, 2021 19:50:02 GMT
My view too. My job as an HGV driver isn't exactly held in very high regard in the scheme of things but for as long as I can remember I've been obsessed with travel. At the age of 10 I was travelling the length and breadth of London on the Red Rover all-day bus passes you used to be able to get, at 14 I hitch-hiked from London to Loch Ossian in Scotland I've never been the loch itself. Would be nice to visit one day. It's very remote. There's a Youth Hostel (or at least there was in 1974) right on the shore. No road access, the only way to get to it is by a path from Corrour station, which is the highest altitude mainline railway station in the UK. A quick Google states that the Youth Hostel is still there. I imagine your parents had a shag in this very building and nine months later you showed up. Hence the name.
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Post by metanoia on Jan 20, 2021 19:50:59 GMT
Similar thing happened here when you disappeared from the forum for a couple of days but it wasn't young girls it was grown men! That is both worrying & rather frightening ๐ฑ How's Barney coping with his new home/status (a landlubber - just when he though he was a cruiser?!!). Hope you and Paul are enjoying being there x
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Post by quaysider on Jan 20, 2021 19:55:11 GMT
If you can earn a living whilst enjoying what you do you've 'swum the channel' in my view Contentment is worth a lot. My view too. My job as an HGV driver isn't exactly held in very high regard in the scheme of things but for as long as I can remember I've been obsessed with travel. At the age of 10 I was travelling the length and breadth of London on the Red Rover all-day bus passes you used to be able to get, at 14 I hitch-hiked from London to Loch Ossian in Scotland and even blagged a ride from Rannoch to Corrour in the cab of a goods train. So I saw getting an HGV licence as a way to travel further afield and get paid for doing it- as I frequently point out I am very mean. Through driving a truck and the time off at destinations I've seen Red Square in Moscow, the Reichstag in Berlin, Dolbamache Palace and the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, been up the Eiffel Tower at twilight, taken cable cars to mountaintops in Switzerland, seen the Little Mermaid Statue in Copenhagen, climbed the Potemkin Steps in Odessa, explored Prague, Budapest, Warsaw, Bucharest, had numerous weekends being paid to lay on a beach or by a swimming pool in Spain, plus loads more that I won't bore you with. By comparison doing two runs a day from Rugby to Minworth a day is fairly unadventurous, but it isn't too demanding and it pays for the narrowboating. It's better than working for a living. You've nit the nail on the head here... I wish I'd been in a position to "do this" years ago - instead of frittering good salaries (at the time) on flash clothes, cars, holidays and wild women (oh hang on- I got carried away then) If I could have been doing this in my younger years, I'd have been much happier I'm sure. Luckily, through that epiphany I had about 12 years ago to save up like mad and change my life forever, I'm now the happiest I've been. HARD to believe I know given all the moans and griping I do but (covid and divorce finances a side) I'm the most content "in my work" as I've ever been... after all, charging people to come onboard and lark around for a week isn't really working is it? - providing they aren't fussy eaters that is!
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Post by Trina on Jan 20, 2021 20:02:11 GMT
If you can earn a living whilst enjoying what you do you've 'swum the channel' in my view Contentment is worth a lot. My view too. My job as an HGV driver isn't exactly held in very high regard in the scheme of things but for as long as I can remember I've been obsessed with travel. At the age of 10 I was travelling the length and breadth of London on the Red Rover all-day bus passes you used to be able to get, at 14 I hitch-hiked from London to Loch Ossian in Scotland and even blagged a ride from Rannoch to Corrour in the cab of a goods train. So I saw getting an HGV licence as a way to travel further afield and get paid for doing it- as I frequently point out I am very mean. Through driving a truck and the time off at destinations I've seen Red Square in Moscow, the Reichstag in Berlin, Dolbamache Palace and the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, been up the Eiffel Tower at twilight, taken cable cars to mountaintops in Switzerland, seen the Little Mermaid Statue in Copenhagen, climbed the Potemkin Steps in Odessa, explored Prague, Budapest, Warsaw, Bucharest, had numerous weekends being paid to lay on a beach or by a swimming pool in Spain, plus loads more that I won't bore you with. By comparison doing two runs a day from Rugby to Minworth a day is fairly unadventurous, but it isn't too demanding and it pays for the narrowboating. It's better than working for a living. Paul had excellent grade A & S levels but didn't fancy Uni(think there were more interesting things back then๐).He eventually got into driving-HGV & PSV.Spent years driving round Europe in his Daf whilst doing various OU degree courses.He then got into management & eventually became European MD for a French company(๐คฎspit).He was made redundant once he'd got the firm set up in this country-hence being able to have a boat built.After that,he did some agency driving as well as steering trip,restaurant & hotel boats for pocket money.Guess when he was happiest,felt good healthwise & looked forward to each day ??
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Post by metanoia on Jan 20, 2021 20:08:59 GMT
That is what I just LOVE about living out here.
Judge not .....
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Post by metanoia on Jan 20, 2021 20:12:20 GMT
My view too. My job as an HGV driver isn't exactly held in very high regard in the scheme of things but for as long as I can remember I've been obsessed with travel. At the age of 10 I was travelling the length and breadth of London on the Red Rover all-day bus passes you used to be able to get, at 14 I hitch-hiked from London to Loch Ossian in Scotland and even blagged a ride from Rannoch to Corrour in the cab of a goods train. So I saw getting an HGV licence as a way to travel further afield and get paid for doing it- as I frequently point out I am very mean. Through driving a truck and the time off at destinations I've seen Red Square in Moscow, the Reichstag in Berlin, Dolbamache Palace and the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, been up the Eiffel Tower at twilight, taken cable cars to mountaintops in Switzerland, seen the Little Mermaid Statue in Copenhagen, climbed the Potemkin Steps in Odessa, explored Prague, Budapest, Warsaw, Bucharest, had numerous weekends being paid to lay on a beach or by a swimming pool in Spain, plus loads more that I won't bore you with. By comparison doing two runs a day from Rugby to Minworth a day is fairly unadventurous, but it isn't too demanding and it pays for the narrowboating. It's better than working for a living. You've nit the nail on the head here... I wish I'd been in a position to "do this" years ago - instead of frittering good salaries (at the time) on flash clothes, cars, holidays and wild women (oh hang on- I got carried away then) If I could have been doing this in my younger years, I'd have been much happier I'm sure. Luckily, through that epiphany I had about 12 years ago to save up like mad and change my life forever, I'm now the happiest I've been. HARD to believe I know given all the moans and griping I do but (covid and divorce finances a side) I'm the most content "in my work" as I've ever been... after all, charging people to come onboard and lark around for a week isn't really working is it? - providing they aren't fussy eaters that is! Too very true, Mark. Many people ask me if I have any regrets about giving it all up. Of course I do - how I wish I'd done it long ago x
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Post by Trina on Jan 20, 2021 20:13:20 GMT
That is both worrying & rather frightening ๐ฑ How's Barney coping with his new home/status (a landlubber - just when he though he was a cruiser?!!). Hope you and Paul are enjoying being there x Loving Ellesmere Met but we'll be glad when all the refurbs are done,we are getting there!House is only 20 yrs old but had no updating at all,so new bathrooms,kitchen & decorating.The meres are lovely & loads of other fab local walks.It really is a beautiful area.The market town itself is fab,great local food shops during lockdown.Barney boy is still a big wuss,he only stays outside if someone's with him,never had a cat like it !All in all,we like it here a lot...but would love to go boating.xx
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2021 21:05:41 GMT
There is a run off just at the top lock, drains down into the reservoir which must be full, hopefully it isn't owned by CRT and is well looked after. On the subject of that, you can no longer moor below the reservoir on the offside, crt have put up little no mooring signs and asked on social media, hame really as its a nice spot on piling. Just went up to the aqueduct to have a look at the boat on the way back from a certain food retail outlet that I shall not name.ย To be honest even with my torch I couldn't see it all that well, but there doesn't seem to be any listing as far as I could see, and everything is tied on and secure.ย The otter family living in the saloon said to say hi.ย I'll pop back up there in a few days and have a look in daylight.ย Thanks Tony, itโs appreciated, beer on me if we ever cross paths!
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Post by metanoia on Jan 20, 2021 21:09:20 GMT
Just went up to the aqueduct to have a look at the boat on the way back from a certain food retail outlet that I shall not name. To be honest even with my torch I couldn't see it all that well, but there doesn't seem to be any listing as far as I could see, and everything is tied on and secure. The otter family living in the saloon said to say hi. I'll pop back up there in a few days and have a look in daylight. Thanks Tony, itโs appreciated, beer on me if we ever cross paths! Seriously, pm me @froggy if you're really concerned. I have a friend in the town who would check it out for you - but really - your bilge pump was doing you proud a few weeks ago!!!
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