ROFL! Anne, you owe me a new wireless keyboard - this one has coffee spluttered *all* over it :)
Trevor Anne Coleman wrote: >> The very idea of hotel boats with lifeboats on davits, port and >> starboard, plus boxes of life jackets and a self-inflating life-raft (in >> a pretty white fibreglass container) on their roof, makes the >> imagination boggle - the first low bridge and its a cartoonist's dream :) >> > > When we went on the Dudley tunnel trip boat a couple of years ago, we > were all issued with hard hats! > The Elf 'n safety anouncement then went like this: > > 'We have to make this H & S announcement, so you will be happy to > know that should we sink, there are enough lifebelts on board for all > passengers. However, if we do sink, we recommend that you stand on > the seats to avoid getting your feet wet. We also have sufficient > fire extinguishers (water-based!) on board, in case this all-steel > boat should spontaneously combust and the canal runs out of water! > (They didn't like me 'n Jez wearing our hard hats on top of our > leather stetsons much, tho!) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
