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The brown water tank is full.

There's been no place to pump out for 2 days, so it's strategic purchases: "Do you have a toulet? OK. I'll have a coffee."

Last night we moored by a Canal & River Trust toilet in Wigan. It's still functioning and it's clean! Yay #CRT.

Today the crew's taking the tourist train two stops to Chester, while I get a day of rest. Tomorrow we continue in our search for a pump-out.

#CanalLife #canal #boat #boating #narrowboat #BrownWater #tank #toilet #elsan

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Backing under Bridge 1 to reach the newly repaired water point at the top of the Rufford branch.

For a motor vehicle, this manouevre (backing into an intersection) would be against the rules. But for a boat, at 1½ miles per hour, what could go wrong? 😅

Thanks, Canal & Rivert Trust for having the waterpoint repaired. Rumour has it the pipe burst when it froze, last winter.

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We've reached the Leeds & Liverpool Canal bridge that is biased against boats. Cars take priority during peak hours, and around here the afternoon peak starts at 2:00 pm!

At 6:00 pm we will resume boating until the wheels come off, hoping to reach Litherland before dark so we're set up to enter Liverpool with tomorrow's convoy.

#CanalLife #canal #boating #narrowboat #Liverpool #Litherland #bridge #car #traffic

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I've booked us a pontoon (a floating dock) in Salthouse at Liverpool. Now all we need to do is get there by Friday.

2 days!

We will have to go full throttle, 3 miles per hour for … hours. Plus 4 more bridges to open, one of which prioritises vehicles – so no opening during peak hours.

It's almost like … work, …with … schedules and … deadlines. 😅

#canal #CanalLife #narrowboat #boating #bridge #SwingBridge

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There really is a part of the world where the roads are called Daisy lane, Wood lane, Hall lane, Bleak lane, Moss lane, School lane, Briar's lane, Blythe lane, Hobcross lane, Lowrey lane, Course lane, and so on. The Leeds & Liverpool canal runs through it, near the villages of Hoscar and Lathom.

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I have a handcuff key in my pocket, these days. Most of the locks and bridges in the northwest are locked with "handcuffs". They prevent vandals from opening both sides of a lock to let the water flow endlessly through and thus drain the canal.

Similarly, people get a thrill out of opening a bridge and then leaving it open, which blocks all land traffic (cars, bikes, pedestrians).

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1 manual- and 2 electric swing bridges today that we opened in the rain using a key.

Waiting drivers watch you open the bridge, move the boat by, close the bridge, then force you aside with their cars before you can cross the bridge to your boat on foot.

Face to face, Brits are quick to call verbal interaction "Rude!" when it suits, but when they're separated from you by car glass, it's Me First!

#British #culture #rude #rudeness #boating #narrowboat #canal #UK #rain #car #driver #safety #CRT

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1 manual- and 2 electric swing bridges today that we opened in the rain using a key.

Waiting drivers watch you open the bridge, move the boat by, close the bridge, then force you aside with their cars before you can cross the bridge to your boat on foot.

Face to face, Brits are quick to call verbal interaction "Rude!" when it suits, but when they're separated from you by car glass, it's Me First!

#British #culture #rude #rudeness #boating #narrowboat #canal #UK #rain #car #driver #safety #CRT

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Very pleased that I did not tell the bridge operator what I really think of his "oops I didn't see you".

We were IN the rotating aquaduct (shown in the video in its open/sideways position) when he started closing the far gate. I put the boat in reverse and had us backed out past the near gate before he even saw us.

Assclowns like that cost lives.

At the time I took this video, the ship passing below was long gone from view.

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It's a lazy, sunny moment, just before 'The Big Lock' on the Trent & Mersey canal north of Middlewich.

After this lock we'll run the washer and see if the leak* is fixed.

* See my post of 2 days ago.

By the way, when I post a photo of. Ideo, there's usually extra info in the description or "Alt tag" of the image. Make sure you use an app that can show that info – because some apps hide it.

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A slow leak* under the bed where the washer pumps out through the hull.

* For those of you who think all I ever post about is our glamorous boating life: this is not glam.

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My husband wants me to help apply decorative decals to the bow.

H: Are you ready?

Me: Yes.

He spends 5 minutes talking to a Canadian couple on the towpath, about our boat. It turns out they worked for the same employer, in Vancouver.

…

H: Are you ready?

Me: Yes.

H: Oh, I gotta pee. [UK readers: He means 'wee'.]

…

H: Are you ready?

Me: Yes.

H: OK. Let me wipe this surface first.

…

H: Are you ready?

Me: Yes.

…

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Breakfast on board. "Is that another banana? I thought we only had one. Oh, it's the same one. Half of one."
—My husband, fully awake and sharp as a tack.

Out #breakfast on board a #narrowboat. #CanalLife #canal #boating

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We've had hearty beef stew and garlic mashed potatoes, which my husband made from scratch while the guys and I worked locks in the rain.

Not sure where we are, now. and don't care. We're by a field. The rain has everything green and blossoming. See photo. But it's not April green, it's August. Lots of light but shortening days.

We stopped to pick blackberries on the non-towpath side—only accessible by boat—for tomorrow's pancakes.

#CanalLife #canal #boating #narrowboat #locks #meal #rain