[Default] On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 15:44:00 +0100, "michael askin"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  finished tucking into their plate of fish, chips
and mushy peas. Wiping their mouth, they swiggged the last of their
cup of tea, paid the bill and wrote::


>In 2003 (I think) we had our fan belt go. By the time we had fixed it we 
>were late (again) on the tide. We pushed a mid spring all the way from 
>Keadby to Dunham, flat out. It was a ridculously hot night after many hot 
>days - the Trent waters were warm to the touch. 

20 years or so earlier and the Trent would have steamed, with all the
cooling water from the power stations: I well remember bathing off
Barton Island in the Upper Trent and finding it to be almost as warm
as a swimming bath, but a lot more polluted!

Brian L Dominic

Web Sites:

Canals: http://www.brianscanalpages.co.uk

Friends of the Cromford Canal: http://www.cromfordcanal.org.uk 

(Waterways World Site of the Month, November 2005)


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