----- Original Message ----- From: "Anne Coleman" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, August 15, 2009 8:47 AM Subject: Re: [canals-list] Re: Cycling on towpaths
> >> >>My advice to anyone visiting London by canal is just to be cautious. >>London >>is London whether it's the roads, the canals or the towpath. They do >>things >>differently. And they live there. You're just visiting. > > If they live there, they shouldn't mind drinking the water! ..as will > happen if they approach me so fast I am startled and jump sideways > against them......... > > Anne C > Some tosser in Berkhamsted came hurtling along the towpath on his bike the other day and startled my poor little dog into jumping into the canal. After the telling off I gave him (the cyclist), I hope he has the sense not to do it again. Mind you, all I got for my troubles was the finger, so I wished him a sad and lonely death. It did seem that his cycle sustained a puncture during the incident, so I was quite pleased at that. It took a long time to stop the dog from trembling, though. Cyclists on the Regent's Canal towpath regularly go at excessive speeds, often where they are not supposed to cycle at all. My friends who live on their boat at Lisson Wide enjoy the occasional ducking that disobedient cyclists bring upon themselves. Dorothy
