hamster

joy

Take a banjo, they like banjos in those parts. If in a pub and local asks you if you have met his his wife and sister and there is only one woman in the pub DO NOT LOOK AROUND for the missing relative, they are probably the same person. Take your gnome for some hilarious photographical fun.

mrs (hamster)

a - '76 b - Man U c - The linesman

McClaine, surely?

You can practice the manouvre next time you take a bath landford. Use a pencil, ponty end is the bow, and push it gently backwards. Observe it's movement when you prevent it's backwards path with your finger on the rubber end (stern), observe how the pointy end tries to overtake the rubber end! Do not try to stop this movement of the pointy end, that is not possible, you need to CONTROL this movement by making gentle alterations at thre rubber end. Think about how you could couteract the 'jacknife' effect? What you must do is to make short 'blips' forward whilst pointing the tiller in the direction of the pointy end ie. if the pointy end is swerving to your port side, you must give the boat a squirt forward into the swerve (ie aim the tiller hard to port). DO NOT try to stop your boat. You don;t want to stop her, you just need to let her know who's the boss. Don't wait for the rear end to swing out but as sson as you feel it take effect throw her back into reverse (gently, as the speed must be increased very gradually) and you will find that you are now dragging her straight. You need to keep an eye on the pointy end and as your speed builds (lol) the required spurts in forward gear will require less and less time to make an impact. Next time I am out I may invite you to video me doing this so that you can put it on youtube and tell people that you know me.

spot-welder

Two of my mates who were both 'offenders' were given free saints shirts a couple of years ago. Just to show their appreciation they subsequemtly swapped them at the first opportunity.... .........one for a Swansea one the other for Plymouth.

coalface

scargill (king arthur)

REFEREE!!! Infractions due methinks. It is St John Ambulance, the ambliance does not belong to St John. hth

You are chilled landford, you just need to tune into your inner karma. Remind me to show you how to reverse a narrowboat sometime, it is not learnable anywhere else, everyone will tell you that you can not do it, but this is a lie.

On the last morning I had had the foresight to moor just far enough from Gayton to poodle back at a more leisurley 1-2 mph. People would be amazed at the things that you simply do not see when driving or even walking along. We even watched some waterside sheep shearing.

landford, re staying over for Crick, I mentioned a hostelry to your other half it is this far away and i just checked and they have a room for £50 on the Friday or £53 on thew saturday. It's listed as 'Daventry' but is in fact in Weedon, where you will find a nice choice of eatery and drinkery options, a few antique shops and not least the old ordnance yard where once upon a time munitions were transported to the south from, walk under the canal bridge, under the railway bridge then take a right where the road forks left. http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=NN7+4PX&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=Northampton+NN7+4PX&gl=uk&ei=iSD8S_rtM8-R4gaK4I3sAg&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=image&resnum=1&ved=0CBYQ8gEwAA It played a very important part of the war effort. Actually, next time you visit Stoke Bruerne take a minute to visit the new monument to 'The War Women' erected last year, it celebrated the tremendous efforts of those hardy gals who took to the canals during our hour of need. Many maintained a life afloat afterwards.

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Crick eh? Was there on Wednesday nice stretch of canal with a cute little tunnel, obviously not a real tunnel like my home mooring one, the mighty beast at Blisworth.

Hi, yes got back late Saturday after dropping a couple of GK's in Kent. A fabulous time was had by all, however i have been informed that NB chat is not welcome and some in fact find it boring. I could tell you many tales of our adventure but don't wish to upset the majority. btw at Braunston we moored right next to nb Dover no less (the Alan Herd one) - that was quite a buzz - and yes, I did get a little damp. btw, has our mutual friend mentioned the works trip at the end of June (NOT the Hungerford one)? It's on Sunday 27th and would be nice to see you there.

once a bloodsucker always a bloodsucker in my book dd.

quelle surprise. I'm not a fan of entrapment in general, this though, surprises me not. dirty sponging workshy sponging inbred spongers, the lot of 'em. nought personal

Fifitrixabell

Play-off form Silverware Pompey down '' lose cup final who in all honesty could have asked for more?

Gola Line Technology NOW! FFS

Anyone else spot this on the M25 this morning, quite brilliant:

I feel that as Nicola is new to the footballing world of management he may feel that (as in the real world), publicly backing an employee is not required, which we could argue is how it should be. Evidently we (fans) love speculation of any sort related to our clubs, ergo Nicola works to the 'no news is good news' philosophy and he clearly is not comfortable with publicly stating that nothing is happening. just mho but I think that the echo are just doing a job, albeit not to some people's liking and the echo site is probably receiving some good hit figures currently.