Boat Inn in Minworth. Wir sind extra noch am Abend bis hin gefahren, damit wir dort morgen Frühstücken können. Weil da waren wir schonmal vor einigen Jahren und es war komplett Urig. Also unverfälschter lokaler Pub. Zum Frühstück gabs den Tee schon mit Milch drinnen. Die Frage war nur mit oder ohne Zucker:))
Und jetzt das: Sie machen kein Frühstück mehr. Und Abendessen gibts heute auch nicht. Nur flüssige Nahrung.
Frage an die Verkehrsbubble:
Muss ich mich mit den #Narrowboat da jetzt auch nach rechts einordnen?
Bradley Workshop is where Canal & River Trust uses oak, steel, and plastic to make its "smaller" lock gates weighing up to 1½ tonnes (1⅔ tons). Lock gates hold back the water, so that canals can step up a hill using water-filled chambers.
Within each lock gate is a plastic paddle (photo)—a vertical, underwater door that boaters wind up to partly drain or fill a lock chamber with a boat in it.
https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/specialist-teams/engineering/building-lock-gates
We tied up 10 minutes ago.
We would have arrived at our friend's boat two minutes earlier, but we first had to wait for a short narrowboat whose engine was overheating. They were trying to pull over, struggling to get near enough to the towpath to jump off with a rope.
(I can't imagine drivers of cars waiting patiently for two minutes while a blocking car gets pushed to the side of the road.)
Instructions for finding a friend's boat: "Come past bridge 19, past a fibreglass boat that's there now, on the towpath side. Pass that. Then opposite, there's a white broad-beam boat, then a blue narrowboat, then us. You can tie up opposite us."
Narrowboaters honk to claim the right of way through a narrow passage (in the absence of signage).
This is my point. Nobody knows any signs.
Instead, we yell messages at each other over the roar of the diesel engine, in the 5-second window as we pass.
Oh, I thought of another one:
• Your Tunnel Light Is On.
Keep The Family Close
Even when babies get big, parents are watchful. We enjoy travelling with Bryn and think of Nye a bit too.
https://bartimaeus.blether.org.uk/keep-the-family-close
#Narrowboat #LiveAboard #BoatsThatToot
Diesel engines are noisy.
If boaters could sign even 20 words, we could communicate with each other.
Perhaps such warnings as:
• Person In Water.
• Unpowered Craft.
• Underwater Obstacle.
• Boat Behind Me (out of view).
• X Feet Clearance (at a bank or lock).
Or such messages as:
• I'm Mooring Here/Now.
• Your Boat Will Fit Here.
• I Want To Pass You.
What phrases would you want every boater to know?
Some canals have single locks, in pairs. This design offers a chance to chat with other boaters, since 2 boats can go up, or down, at the same time.
Chatting with another boat, I see and hear: she recovered from a stroke, hobbles, struggles to wind up the paddles; he recently fell and injured something unspecified.
Later, they moor their neatly kept boat nearby. As I help them tie up, I can see … this season may be their last.
Birds boaters see on UK canals:
Swans are demanding, accustomed to being fed, and aggressive.
Coots and moor hens avoid humans but can be nasty with other birds. They'll get on the back of bigger species and peck them into retreat.
Geese truly are silly, constantly getting themselves and each other in a honking contest.
Ducks are nicest. Some are shy, many approach boats, some land on your moving boat, quacking for food.
Pigeons are shits.
This bast*rd bird bit me.
This swan was too dumb to figure out to chase sinking seed, so I leaned out the swan doors with a palmful of delicious birdseed in my flat, outstretched hand. Usually swans will feed this way before they learn to chase the sinking seed. This one decided to bite me.
It didn't break the skin, but nearly abraded the skin off my index finger.
I guess that makes me the stupid one.
Yet again I've been fiddling with Seren's gear change. It's always been terrible, every year I improve it a bit, maybe one day it'll work properly. Details on the blog here https://www.pthane.weebly.com
Also info about a new plastic narrowboat at the Crick Boat Show. #Crick #NarrowBoat #CanalBoat #Canal #HDPE #AdriftBoats #FormationPlastics
Toot tunnel (only a portion as full video is a bit long for here). #TinWhistle #Narrowboat #Canal
Back home from our 3 days on a #narrowboat in the #GrandUnionCanal.
Had a little go at steering, even under a bridge.
Only moved it the wrong way once, although it veered off the second I stopped concentrating very hard.
Not the best photo as managed to knock the colour balance setting in the camera!
UK inland canals are generally shallowest at the bank, deepest in the middle.
The deepest part may not be as deep as you'd expect. Typically, people can stand up in a canal. When boats sink, they end up sitting on the bottom.
The sunk boat in this photo has a keel—like a backbone rather than a flat bottom like a narrowboat—so once it touches the bottom of the canal, the boat rolls and settles at an angle.
In a crack in the oak beam of a lock gate, bees 
built a hive.
[Note that when lock gates open and close, they often thump against the stone lock chamber.]
Thump! Out come the bees!
And there I was, standing on the stern, surrounded by bees, trying to convince myself it's OK, it's just bees looking around.
Closed the gate gently, emptied the lock, opened the gate at the lower end, and got the boat clear!
Today I saw a lock chamber where, some time in the past, the original, massive stone blocks had been replaced with concrete.
Some of the old stone is still there, worn but doing the job. The newer concrete is crumbling.
The original, late-1700s canal engineers would have known about concrete, but they chose stone. It's been durable.
Sodala, die nächsten Tage gibts keine Bilder, weil ich hab mein Handy im Kanal versenkt. Also nicht wirklich, eigentlich hab ich mich nur selbst versenkt, aber das Handy war halt in der Hosentasche.
Mist.
Dafür hab ich jetzt die Zeit beim Trocken genützt mal einen Vorschlag an die Stadt München zu schreiben für war richtig vernünftiges:
Eine Parkbahn für München:
https://unser.muenchen.de/budgets/1/investments/306
Ankucken und wenns soweit ist bitte dafür stimmen :))
