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mrscloudinspector

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    Narrow boats, VW Split Screen Vans, Music, Wine and Dancing - not necessarily in that order
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    Alternative Therapy

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  1. Thank you, I recently read your book 'A boat named this' that was free on Kindle, really funny If you ever see us come and say hello
  2. Great pictures - enjoy your new life onboard
  3. Best thing you will ever do :-) the boat looks lovely, we are nearly a year living on our boat (we didn't intend living on it, it just happened) and I have never been happier. Good luck xxx
  4. To stay on the bridgewater for more than 7 days you need a licence from peel holdings/manchester ship canal co. who own the canal. As far as I'm aware you need to have a mooring either in a marina or with a cruising club to be issued with a license. Also I've been told that MSC don't allow liveaboards on the bridgewater but this may not be correct. Your best option would be to contact peel holdings/MSC or any of the cruising clubs based on the bridgewater. Just east of Lymm there are online moorings near Hesford marine so it may be worth speaking to some of the boat owners there. Having said that there are plenty boats moored online that look like liveaboards so I guess you take your chance.
  5. We had smells from the holding tank when we bought our boat. We started using Odorlos after every pump out and now suffer no nasty whiffs. I would also suggest pumping out before the tank is full and giving it a good rinse with clean water every time. This regime works for us. Our tank is 360 litres and we use 100ml of odorlos each time. we liveaboard and the tank does at least a month between pump outs.
  6. Wow! Thank you to everyone for your input and information - I have been away for a few days and just got chance to check. I think my next step will be to contact my Great Aunt, his daughter, to find out as much as I can - first names, locations etc- then I can then start to make further enquiries. I will keep you posted!
  7. Hope you may be able to point me in the right direction! I was always aware of a great, great relative working on a narrowboat but have recently found out that it was in fact my great grandfather on my mums side with the surname Rose. He apparently owned a working boat with another chap whose surname was Wild and the boat was aptly named 'Wild Rose'. It is possible that he carried cement or pottery and as he lived in Leigh it is assumed that he worked locally. There is one surviving daughter who we are going to contact to see if she has anymore information but he died in his forties of lung cancer and his children were all quite young so she may not be able to shed any more light on it. I would love to try and find out more so my question is where do I start? Have I got enough info to even make a start?! Obviously I was really chuffed to find this out and although I was told this story as a child I had forgotten all about it, so it seems that it was in my blood all along lol! Thanks
  8. How exciting!! I remember that feeling just a little over a year ago Good luck
  9. We didn't use a toffee hammer either, but again thanks for the advice A genuine thanks for the tips about mooring pins, however it was the abuse that we received that can't be solved by padlocks etc. that was the most unsettling part. If they hadn't been able to pull the pins so easily they might have just started to smash things up.... They also threw one of my pots in the canal so I think they were just out to do some sort of damage.
  10. We didn't use toothpicks, but thanks for the advice Also, it was also a case of threatening behaviour as well as having the pins pulled
  11. We stayed in Leigh last night on the towpath side facing the Waterside Inn, as there was no room opposite on the visitor moorings where there are rings (which we have done twice before on a Saturday with no issues) and at about 2.30am we both woke up after hearing a clunk to find that we were drifting down the middle of the canal. We got ourselves back to the bank and moored up again but as the OH was on an early shift he decided to stay up and have a cup of tea. About 4am with lights on in the boat about four lads came past and pulled the pins again (although not sure if they were the same group who did it the first time as it was quite a while later). I shouted out at them and one of the lads came running up the the window telling me to F off and generally verbally abusing me, they ran off as soon as the OH appeared and then while we were sorting the boat again they were shouting abuse at us from the bridge. Martin was already late leaving for work but I was really shaken and didnt want to be left alone so we got a friend to come over to stay with me til morning and then moved the boat alongside another boater (who very kindly offered) on the opposite side. I phoned the police today on the non emergency number to report it and they were really helpful, they said we should have phoned them at the time - We didn't think they would've been interested!- they logged it and gave me a reference, said to ring straight away if any more problems as I will be on my own here tonight. Must admit It was quite scary, made me feel really vulnerable. Sorry if I've waffled, didn't get a lot of kip last night! And apologies if I should have posted this elsewhere. Just thought I would let people know. Thanks Meg
  12. Absolutely, this is the life for us
  13. Thinking of coming down for the day (in our camper van) depending on work - think we saw your boat on the Rufford Branch a while back
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