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Bobbing Boat

Beauty and calm, so close to Birmingham, the UK's 2nd-largest city.

Some historic bridges over the BCN Wyrley & Essington canal are cast iron. Like old bridges over most UK canals, the iron parts are painted black and white, the brick is unpainted.

It's jarring to see several Cannock Extension canal bridges tagged with a new, bright blue, Canal & River Trust sign. The image description (ALT text) describes original signage.

A steel-arched canal bridge that is level on top, and has a brick parapet (the sides, like railings, but formed of a brick wall). The brick has some decorative detail, where bricklayers showed their skill. In the photo, a narrowboat is passing under the bridge, and the photo was taken looking forward ober its roof. The bridge's signage, facing all boats passing below, dates back to Britain's industrial revolution. The largest sign reads: "Horseley Coal & Iron Company 1824" as black letters spaced across several meters of the white arch. A second sign reads: "Persall Works Bridge" and this sign resembles the signage on all bridges in this area, which are named, not numbered. There's a third sign that reads: "Site of Pelsall Iron Co. 1832 - 1892. Presented for the millennium, 994 - 1994". (Those last digits are very small and I may have misread them.)
#CanalLife#canal#bridge
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Bobbing Boat

A stoppage is where a canal is impassable because something broke, burst or breached.

Some stoppages you can see coming. It's a gamble for Canal & River Trust: fix now or postpone? (See photo ALT text for examples.)

The UK's 1790s canals transported heavy or fragile goods. Now, canals mean leisure, recreation, fitness, mental health, beauty, waterside property value (tax), wildlife, eco-diversity, tourism.

Two photos. Left photo: At a lock, a repair to the cope stones—the upper row of stone that tops the brick side walls of a lock chamber. Pink cement has been added in large wedges formed between the broken corners of the copes. Each cope stone originally was 18 inches (45 centimeters) wide and deep, with variable lengths of over 2 feet (about ¾ meters). The pink cement doesn't match the darker grey stone. Right photo: An unrepaired lock chamber wall that has 2 issues. First, below the cope stones a course (row) of brick is gone—about 10 or 11 bricks. Steel boats weighing many tonnes smash the bricks, which crack and wear away over time. Second, from the cope stones down over meter (over a yard) is a crack, caused by subsidence, possibly from a slow leak. Mortar has washed out of the jagged crack, which is easily wide enough to insert the fingers of a hand, all down the vertical length of the crack.
#CanalLife#canals#boating
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Bobbing Boat

Just passed through a lock full of large, floating branches—the size that sticks (pun) in lock paddles and prevents them from closing, so the lock leaks and cannot refill (serious issue).

Five minutes with a pole and hook cleared the lock chamber. The wood went into the hedgerow to close a gap.

Happy to do casual preventative maintenance so Canal & River Trust can do the more serious stuff.

#CanalLife#canal#volunteer
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okanogen VerminEnemyFromWithin

But, Prof. Chibber, please allow me to respond.
FUCK YOU!
Maybe it it the "class and capitalism are all that matters" Left that has FAILED. Maybe YOU have failed to offer #BIPOC and other marginalized groups even one goddamn solution that would actually improve our lives and protects us from a #racist, bigotted #WhiteSupremacy which has existed and hurt us for centuries.
Shut your goddamn mouth whimpering about how #Woke and #CRT have ruined the Left & gave us Trump. That was YOUR team's fail.

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Bobbing Boat

Boating is easier than a few decades ago.

We used to read our Nicholson guide for clues about canalside shops. Now, GPS + a map app shows every nearby grocery shop.

For route planning, Open Canal Map integrates Canal & River Trust's warnings and closures.

Keeping dry is easier with Rain Alarm (Michael Diener's Android app), which shows waves of rain in advance, so we know when to take a break and when to resume boating.

#CanalLife#canal#boating
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rootCompute:\

New CRT monitor pickup! 19" Gateway 2000 EV900, manufacture date September 1997. Maxes out at 1600x1200 screen resolution. Has a pretty decent picture quality and geometry, no apparent defects after looking it over a bit.

This is far and away bigger and better than anything else I previously owned. Got it for a decent price compared to other local offerings. Looking forward to some retro gaming on this thing over the weekend!

My new-old Gateway 2000 EV900 monitor set up on my desk, complete with an old beige keyboard and a Microsoft Trackball mouse.
#crt#CRTmonitor#crtgaming
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