Nick's all new 2022 lock keeping adventures and bonkers boaters thread

[Just One More]

Quiet start to a sunny day








Entertaining visit from the Nottingham Afro-Caribbean Ladies Rambling Group, all enormous and very jolly

Chatted to a Ukrainian sea captain and his wife and kids from Mariupol

One of those chats that'll stay with you forever I imagine Nick. It would certainly make me look at my "problems" in a different way 

[apc2010]

Quiet start to a sunny day








Entertaining visit from the Nottingham Afro-Caribbean Ladies Rambling Group, all enormous and very jolly

Chatted to a Ukrainian sea captain and his wife and kids from Mariupol

One of those chats that'll stay with you forever I imagine Nick. It would certainly make me look at my "problems" in a different way 

Years ago when Yugoslavia/Serbia was being bombed , Serbs could come and stay in Cyprus as a "neutral" country ....there were loads ...same, some of their stories are with me still .....some funny ,some sad ...but all out of realms of comprehension to me ..!!...

and the time I thought a Syrian? bloke was trying to chat me up......but wanted help to fill in his UN political refugee application.... ...

[Nick]

The phone goes: A narrow boat with a cargo of laydees on a birthday trip is on the way downriver. They are going for "lunch" at the Ferry Boat pub and returning later

Translation: A load of immense wimmin are getting pissed on a boat, are going to the pub to get even more pissed and sunburned and will make a chaotic return upriver at about 4.00

And lo, so it came to pass 

[Barman]

The phone goes: A narrow boat with a cargo of laydees on a birthday trip is on the way downriver. They are going for "lunch" at the Ferry Boat pub and returning later

Translation: A load of immense wimmin are getting pissed on a boat, are going to the pub to get even more pissed and sunburned and will make a chaotic return upriver at about 4.00

And lo, so it came to pass 

We need pictures!

[apc2010]

The phone goes: A narrow boat with a cargo of laydees on a birthday trip is on the way downriver. They are going for "lunch" at the Ferry Boat pub and returning later

Translation: A load of immense wimmin are getting pissed on a boat, are going to the pub to get even more pissed and sunburned and will make a chaotic return upriver at about 4.00

And lo, so it came to pass 

We need pictures!

Miss D.s facebook ......

[Barman]

The phone goes: A narrow boat with a cargo of laydees on a birthday trip is on the way downriver. They are going for "lunch" at the Ferry Boat pub and returning later

Translation: A load of immense wimmin are getting pissed on a boat, are going to the pub to get even more pissed and sunburned and will make a chaotic return upriver at about 4.00

And lo, so it came to pass 

We need pictures!

Miss D.s facebook ......

[Nick]

TWENTY FIVE fit young laydees on paddle boards, most in Lycra    but three in bikinis

Wanted to keep them safe, so operated the lock far slower than usual and kept a close eye on them 

They went down safely and, oh ...

[Steve]

TWENTY FIVE fit young laydees on paddle boards, most in Lycra    but three in bikinis

Wanted to keep them safe, so operated the lock far slower than usual and kept a close eye on them 

They went down safely and, oh ...

And that's another reason why you need that bodycam

[Nick]

There could be munny in this

[apc2010]

TWENTY FIVE fit young laydees on paddle boards, most in Lycra    but three in bikinis

Wanted to keep them safe, so operated the lock far slower than usual and kept a close eye on them 

They went down safely and, oh ...

Was "went down " really the phrase needed ....

[Nick]

I will set them up....

[Steve]

TWENTY FIVE fit young laydees on paddle boards, most in Lycra    but three in bikinis

Wanted to keep them safe, so operated the lock far slower than usual and kept a close eye on them 

They went down safely and, oh ...

Was "went down " really the phrase needed ....

[Just One More]

TWENTY FIVE fit young laydees on paddle boards, most in Lycra    but three in bikinis

Wanted to keep them safe, so operated the lock far slower than usual and kept a close eye on them 

They went down safely and, oh ...

Was "went down " really the phrase needed ....

 

[Grumpmeister]

One of your locks by any chance? 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10845145/Drunk-stag-party-SINK-barge-forcing-canal-close-abandoning-boat-lock.html

[Steve]

One of your locks by any chance? 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10845145/Drunk-stag-party-SINK-barge-forcing-canal-close-abandoning-boat-lock.html

Probably chasing after those 'TWENTY FIVE fit young laydees on paddle boards, most in Lycra' someone mentioned