The Brew Cabin

Posted: **Mon Aug 25, 2008 11:44 am**

Had a great day out yesterday with a very good friend of mine!

Navigated the Grand Union canal from Greenford to Paddington basin - what a way to travel and what a way to get right into London.

Heading towards Little Venice, ace little place.

Paddington Basin - all quite new and clean, doesn't look like London, does it?

Our mooring at Paddington - Do you think my daughter was happy to get onto terra-firma??

William and Harriet - why is my boy INCAPABLE of posing properly for a photo??

Me in control! Look at the concentration on my face!!!!

The red arrows flew over suddenly - good job I've got a fast camera, just about caught them! They were impressed with my waterway navigational skills, obviously.

I must remember to collect my car from HR Owen's servce compound! :bb:

Navigating the adqueduct over the A406 North Circular, the Ace Cafe is just round the corner.

......and back safely in the marina. We got a 9/10 from the various 'experts' watching as we docked!!!!!

Notting Hill was an unexpected bonus......the noise, the smell (of cooking food I hasten to add!!) and the atmosphere. Great stuff. If time had allowed, I'd like to have stopped here. You could 'feel' the bass from the artic trailer loaded with sound equipment through the structure of the boat!!

Posted: **Mon Aug 25, 2008 1:04 pm**

Some lovely photies - I love narrowboating, it's so relaxing - even the 'chores' like doing the locks - shame the Mrs thinks it's stultifyingly dull

Typical Bank Holiday stuff for me:

(1) Clean up the car ready for selling
(2) Replace the engine swing-arm spacer bushes on the bike
(3) Lay flooring in the en-suite (replacement after it got flooded due to a split pipe)
(4) Plum the shower back in
(5) plumb the bog back in
(6) 'watch' the quite dull Valencia GP
(7) Play about with computers, fora and databases

Taking a lunchbreak now before I go back to the bathroom and refit all the countertops and cupboards before plumbing the hand wash back in.

I'm looking forward to going back to work tomorrow - coud do with the rest ...

Posted: **Mon Aug 25, 2008 4:12 pm**

IanMelb wrote:Some lovely photies - I love narrowboating, it's so relaxing - even the 'chores' like doing the locks - shame the Mrs thinks it's stultifyingly dull

Exactly - and everybody is soo friendly and helpful. Life just goes by at however fast or slow you want it to. In our case, about 4 mph!

Going past the McVities factory suddenly made us very very hungry, the smell was awesome!!!!!! I reckon they were baking up some chocolate hobnobs (my fave!) when we were going past!

We boated from Windsor to Oxford a few years back, that was great. Took a week and the weather was hot hot hot, good memories.

I hear from September all boats have to use normal road diesel instead of gas oil!? Bollocks to that, I know what I'd be running mine on!

Posted: **Mon Aug 25, 2008 4:19 pm**

I hear from September all boats have to use normal road diesel instead of gas oil!? Bollocks to that, I know what I'd be running mine on!

My in laws own a narrow boat and are currently up in cheshire heading back down to pitstone .
They said they same as you. How are they going to enforce it?
What can they do? clamp yourt boat? crush it?
it's another money making scam from the labour government!

Posted: **Mon Aug 25, 2008 5:39 pm**

Done! Now I've got to have me cuppa and restock it before the SO gets back from work (apologies for the poor focus)

The only real difference between this and the old one is the new flooring which the insurance-approve 'drying firm' ripped up whilst trying to ascertain the extent of the flood damage. All the 'furniture' unscrews and shifts out (although it's bloody heavy). I'm not so sure about the colour of the floor (it's silvery with black) with the wood of the furniture, but it wasn't my decision ...

Posted: **Mon Aug 25, 2008 5:51 pm**

Nice work IanMelb.

Hurry up with that brew and you have just got time to cut the grass

front and back !

Posted: **Mon Aug 25, 2008 7:20 pm**

Hung a gate yesterday photos to follow.

Spent today's after noon in the legion with a snooker cue in one hand and a Theakstons in the other.

Weather wise been g8 all weekend but it will ether rain or go dark before morning here

andy

Posted: **Mon Aug 25, 2008 8:08 pm**

Nice work Ian how tall are you by the way cos that mirror is hung for a midget.

Posted: **Mon Aug 25, 2008 8:57 pm**

Are you saying I'm hung for a midget

?

I'm 6'1" and falling

But that mirror is 3 inches below the start of the roof line - the extension is a 1.5 height structure - mind you, have you ever seen the female of the species put on make-up? They tend to use that height of mirror whatever height they have.

However, there is a full length mirror just past the door on the left

Posted: **Mon Aug 25, 2008 9:49 pm**

I'm 6'5" and expanding right now. Mirrors are the bain of my life they're never tall enough meaning I only ever get to see myself from stupid angles when I lean over. :p

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Posted: **Tue Aug 26, 2008 11:37 am**

Potted-up all of June and July's fuchsia cuttings. 64 new plants for next summer and not a penny spent!

Posted: **Tue Aug 26, 2008 6:25 pm**

my mum and dad have a narrow boat spent all weekend on it near rufford hall near burscough very relaxing

Posted: **Fri Aug 29, 2008 12:03 pm**

I've only just seen this thread...

You don't know me, but I think I probably waved to you as a cycled home from work on my bike!

Where the canal goes over the North Circular Road is quite something isn't it?

Regards,

Simsy

Posted: **Fri Aug 29, 2008 1:38 pm**

i took the mrs and 9 week old baby down to gower near swansea to see the grandparents, the pulley went on my navara on saturday recovered by nissan on saturday didn't get it back till yesterday. plus they didn't give me a courtesy car

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Been stuck in a small village on the welsh coast with no mobile signal no internet and no pub and the mother in law!!!

luckily the lads got on with the job we were on while i was stuck down there.

Posted: **Fri Aug 29, 2008 6:24 pm**

Simsy wrote:You don't know me, but I think I probably waved to you as a cycled home from work on my bike!

Yeah, we were waving (two kids on the top of the boat!) as we crossed over the bridge - well I wasn't as I was concentrating on keeping the boat on the straight and narrow!!!!!!

Small world innit!

The Brew Cabin

What did you get up this weekend? - Dry-ish bank holiday!