"Roger Millin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Adrian said: >> Granny may have been lucky, and have run across the busy road all her >> life without getting knocked down. However, if she was encouraging >> inexperienced young folk to do the same, quite a few of whom have been >> watching her, I would be concerned. >> >> Wouldn't you? >> > I would be even more concerned if my Granny, who claimed to be an > experienced boater, couldn't tell the difference between an historic > steam powered boat and a hire boat.
I have to say that there is nothing in Sean's post that mentions an historic steam powered boat. >From reading the text and not knowing Sean (as A might not) then it is possible to think that he was talking hireboats all the time. Just as if I was talking about narrowboats would you assume that in the next sentence I was talking barges just because I own one? Julian
