What have you found in the canal

[BlueStringPudding]

Would you allow a soaking wet dripping man to board your boat?

 

I'd positively encourage it!

[Naughty Cal]

I'd positively encourage it!

 

You can have him next time then. I will send him by courier.

[BlueStringPudding]

You can have him next time then. I will send him by courier.

 

 

[luctor et emergo]

Would you allow a soaking wet dripping man to board your boat?

 

 

No.

 

But a soaking wet dripping woman would be a diffrent story...

 

 

[BlueStringPudding]

I've found my own Big Bear The Bear floating in the canal at Warwick (he fell off the back seat while pretending to drive at the tiller); and a rusty horseshoe in Chester; and a dead duck in Stratford; and a dead rabbit in Wootton Wawen... but I never found the spanner I dropped in at Christleton.

[Pretty Funked Up]

Saw a massive severed pig's head, really jagged hack line around the neck, floating past coming out of the bottom farmers lock in brum

 

And a few turtles, seperate occasions not together in a group, in the GU

Edited June 14, 2010 by Pretty Funked Up

[Naughty Cal]

Saw a massive severed pig's head, really jagged hack line around the neck, floating past coming out of the bottom farmers lock in brum

 

And a few turtles, seperate occasions not together in a group, in the GU

 

Are you sure they where no terrapins? We saw one the other weekend on our way back from Wells. It looked quite healthy and was quite large. There was a craze a few years back for owning them but when they outgrew their tanks they where released.

[twocvbloke]

Not something I've seen, but the mother's ex had once found a BW pickup laying on it's side in a drained lock on the L&L, the ground was banked next to the lock, and was soggy, so the pickup slid in and went for a swim...

[The Anonymous Bard]

All of which brings us around nicely to possibly one of the most boring and niche canal related site on the www...

 

http://www.flickr.com/groups/373737@N21/

 

Whatever floats yer boat, as they say

 

Edited to add i've just noticed it has six members... come on own up, who are you?

Edited June 23, 2010 by The Anonymous Bard

[Dekazer]

Yesterday evening a large frozen chicken floated past our kitchen window. Makes a change from all the coconuts I suppose.

 

In other news I also had a nice chat with a woman who was taking her tortoise for a walk along the tow path. His name was Mango and he was moving at a fair old pace! I now desperately want a tortoise.

[Josher]

Yesterday evening a large frozen chicken floated past our kitchen window. Makes a change from all the coconuts I suppose.

 

I wonder if it was the same one I saw on Sunday drifting down the Llangollen? (ok it would not still be frozen).

[RLWP]

No.

 

But a soaking wet dripping woman would be a diffrent story...

 

 

[Kate and James]

On the LL where we are in Adlington we seem to be seeing a few green peppers in the cut... about 1 or 2 every week or so... very bizzare, I think someone keeps buying them but the OH doesn't like em and 'disposes' of them out of the window when she's not looking!

[Peter Reed]

99 red dubloons?

[Orca]

A stable platform to drop-out without question...

[magpie patrick]

As kids, we are with mum and dad at pontcysyllte, and a go-kart drifted past, a kind stranger fished it out and gave it to my Brother and I...

 

Some years later, aged 18 with brother and two friends present as we took our first ever independent boat holiday, something else drifted across Pontcysyllte...

 

A somewhat, but not entirely, deflated platic doll, about 5 feet 6 with life like finishes...

 

We wondered how someone would explain getting THAT round the prop (so to speak)

[Sue1946]

and a go-kart drifted past,

 

DUH?

I was fortunate enough to 'do' Ponty 2 weeks ago on the boat of a dear friend.

Surely NOTHING can drift past?

And yes, I was terrified, but it was just so good!!

[landroversforever]

Well in a week cruising round the Cheshire ring, we saw: TV, Bra, couple of pallets, Foam sword, Foam mickey mouse ears, couple of asians swimming in the canal and a couple washing their clothes , an old water tank type thing, a couple of the big 'tonne' sand bags and on the ashton, enough bottles and cans to empty the system! Found a couple of sunk boats too.

 

And then the dead things: about 15 dead birds and a few dead rats.

[RLWP]

I wonder how she was fitted to the tee-stud?

 

Richard

[terryvanman]

I wonder how she was fitted to the tee-stud?

 

Richard

 

 

with a rope ...silly

[RLWP]

with a rope ...silly

 

You kinky devil...

 

Richard

[romarni123]

My neighbour when he drunk,and a man who decided to throw himself in the basin at strattford to end it all.We tried to get him out for ages in the end I felt like putting my foot on his head, the police said hes always doing it.

[Guest]

Another vote for a dead bloated sheep - on the Ashby in Feb this year.

 

It was there on the way out and spookily almost in exactly the same spot coming back a week later - (only by then a little more bloatier)

[ditchcrawler]

Another vote for a dead bloated sheep - on the Ashby in Feb this year.

 

It was there on the way out and spookily almost in exactly the same spot coming back a week later - (only by then a little more bloatier)

Were you surprised that no one had pinched it while you were gone?

[Jim Jam]

two sheep on the avon here