Brian Dominic wrote:
> [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!

It was nice and warm at Normanton-On-Sea  :-)
-- 
Neil Arlidge - NB Earnest / Barge Maurice A (on the drawing board)
Follow the traveled TNC at : http://www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk 





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