David Leese

A good time to join National Association of Boat Owners, a long standing Association that represents all boat owners. Members receive regular issues of its magazine, and discounts from various boat related organisations. #ukcanals #boaters

Banbury canal dry dock may be forced to close after 250 years Tooley's Boatyard says it has lost 80% of business after dry weather closed its section of canal.

Unprecedented drought or not this would be PR disaster for CRT. For yrs #boaters have witnessed decline of infrastructure due to lack of expenditure on #ukcanals The drought has only accelerated rate of demise. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Interview here at 1.50:00 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

#ukcanals #boaters Important info about the Middlewich Arm of the Shroppie. Note that access to services at Venetian Marina including Chamberlain Chandlers IS still very much possible.

Film of blue green algae on Shroppie especially between Audlem & Market Drayton. Dogs have been seen swimming, not good! #ukcanals #boaters

Canal boat holidays cancelled as drought brings waterways to a halt Huge swathes of England's canals have closed due to the drought, as the ageing infrastructure struggles to cope with climate change

A worrying and sad read… #ukcanals #ukdrought #narrowboats

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Something a bit different...

Dolly the boat dog

A heron spotted in the trees yesterday on the Shropshire Union canal

The most majestic thing you will see on #bluesky today. 😇

Keele University survey on liveaboard boaters’ access to healthcare

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People are joking about this but it genuinely *is* the sound of Derby.

Ha! Saw this boat yesterday and had the same thought 😃

1 [Nurse talking to camera] This is usually our busiest time of year at the centre 2 [Show a sign outside a medical institution reading:] Centre for Adults Who Still Can’t Get Their Heads Round Daylight Savings 3 NURSE: We have a spike in admissions when BST starts 4 CONFUSED PATIENT BEING LAID DOWN BY NURSES: Is it forward or back? NURSE: Lie down love 5 We often see the same patients ever year PATIENT: So it’s like… time travel? DOCTOR: No 6 Every year we try to explain BST to them in a fun and memorable way [The patients are sat around a fun show, with people dressed in bunny suits jumping around a giant clock] BUNNY: And now I *spring forward*... 7 [Bunny springs forward one hour on clock] 8 PATIENT WATCHING SHOW: I don’t get it 9 The hardest patients are the Summer Time refusers 10 PATIENT [sat strapped to a chair as a doctor talks to him through a screen, through a tannoy] PATIENT: But why is it better? DOCTOR [talking through microphone]: Because it complicates things. 11 PATIENT: How is that good? DOCTOR: It makes you more tired. 12 DOCTOR [to assistant]: Fetch the cattle prod

I hate the clocks changing because it makes me feel stupid

We have just joined BlueSky! We are an all-volunteer charity operating three canal boats from a beautifully landscaped boat base on the Grand Union Canal near Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire. We enable everyone to experience the fun and the beauty of our waterways! #Charity #BoatHire #Herts #Canal

Petition: Cancel Trump’s state visit Stop Trump Coalition

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Petition: Cancel Trump’s state visit Stop Trump Coalition

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A fine, fine actor.

Don't look at me, I don't understand it either! #severance

Puppy training

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Embankment of 18th-century canal in Cheshire collapses after flooding Engineers assess damage as heavy rains cause first major breach of Bridgewater Canal since 1970s Engineers are assessing the scale of damage to a canal built more than 250 years ago after flood waters caused a dramatic collapse of part of its elevated…

Embankment of 18th-century canal in Cheshire collapses after flooding

That'll be Brewood 😊😊

When I set up my first starter pack, I didn't realise how useful it was.

You get three tabs: the people listed, their recent posts and the relevant feeds.

Here's our canal vibes starter pack.

go.bsky.app/UWQGSUu

First snow flurry of the winter #UKCanals

Thanks

Hurray! Chris Packham's here. @chrisgpackham.bsky.social
Our cup runneth over. Do follow him.

That's lovely. Plakias is one of our favourite places

Sunset at Tixall Wide, Staffordshire, UK. The canal here widens to the size of a lake, a condition laid down by the land owner when the canal was built in 1771.

Liking it here so far...