think we need a party!! how about a canal trip?

yes we shall set a sail date soon glad to see lots of willing helpers, I think if I am correct we have to dock before nightfall and moor up, some of you may need to share bunk (there's a top/middle and bottom) plenty of blankets and hot water bottles in case it gets nippy and a lovely wood burning stove, although I have been advised that anyone with boob enhancements should not stand too close to the stove

Caledonian Canal sounds enticing, though i would very much like to go across Scotland via the Falkirk wheel!

anno the canal is our Oyster! lol
ok Pogs and Lorna you are in charge of steering,but please do remember one has to be upstanding to perform this task therefore alcohol consumption may have to be drunk in moderation

glamma yes entice the nice crew men to help load the supplies, then when they turn their backs..whip away the gang plank so we can set sail (well theres not actualy a sail is there lol

Soutra do not fear,,the barge is one BIG cocktail bar...stretching from port to starboard.....we will be passing through Skipton and stopping off for fish n chips and may have time for a quick rummage round the market.

Can I bring my memory foam sleeping bag purlease; can't sleep without it?

biker

I am definitely staying on the poopdeck with my Bicardi.

I can't be trusted with steering as I said. We would all be grounded if I was in charge.

Fish and chips sound good to me.

The POOPdeck?

No sails! No butler! No crew!
No way!

I would need my own pillow and my faux zebra hot water bottle.

Finally a bag of Fox's Glacier Mints.

DebnCreme we would deff need your "memory foam sleeping bag as no way will anyone "remember" what has gone on the previous evening as most will be three sheets to the wind intoxicated,and your sleeping bag may hold all the clues.

I hear that the locals around the Skipton Area are already starting to board up their windows
Even my inflatable friends have refused to come with me (they are still recovering from the last jaunt)!
Galen we can arrange especially for you! a "personal butler" (remember the "obliging" old man I told you about earlier)? (the one wearing the thong)!

hows the flag coming on.who's in charge of the design, I have found a flag pole..well!! it was outside the Town Hall and no one was using it at the mo! so I "borrowed" it.......(had to saw it into 3 but we can screw it back together no probs.) the man who helped me carry it said he had a "Big Toolbox", there were some girls nearby who started tittering! no idea why!

I just need a few design ideas for the flag please. I'm good at making but design skills are few and far between. Got lots of fabric in lots of colours. Maybe something not too obvious and memorable would be a good idea and then we couldn't be identified too easily. No point bringing attention to our selves unnecessarily.

Perhaps we need an Invisibilty Cloak (tarpaulin) as in the H P books so that we can act disgracefully without being caught.

The flag needs to be low key so as not to bring too much attention to ourselves - perhaps with a few pictures that some people think sums up a pensioner ie knitting needles, indigestion tablets, a knee rug and a Saga magazine.

Not the one at the top of the page then? The one that shouts GRANSNET?

I see Tiggypiro that you mentioned not bringing attention to ourselves
Didn't mean to copy your words, it's just that great minds think alike.

What this proud vessel needs is a name and a figurehead. How about the good ship Venus with a magnificent Gransnet bust well strapped up to the front, like on the Cutty Sark. Those best qualified could draw lots for first place in the line. And for the ship's motto what about To boldly go, without a four-x!. A ship's Labrador is also a must, preferably black. Must now find the Purser and check over ship's stores, both wet and dry. Yo, Ho, Ho!

All excellent ideas. Can you bring the labrador papa although I do think you could take a turn being strapped to the front so I must remember to bring my wig for you. Perhaps, if the artists would not be insulted, we could use certain tea towels as a start point for the flags.

Wot, no ship's cat?

Can Rory swim? Can he catch rats? Is there room for his big sofa? Will there be roast chicken?

Gotta have sofas!

I'm not coming without my reclining chair - so there!

It's BYO furniture time!

I just remembered that the only labrador I knew well would jump in any water with a resounding belly-flop.....

aha!! if bringing the Labrador,,,then brings a new meaning to the "Poopdeck"

biker. The person that brings the lab should be responsible for the 'poopdeck' don't you think.
I'm reserving my cabin as far away from there as possible!

The prospect of myself be-wigged and strapped to the front would be enough to frighten the water out of the canal, so I and the Labrador will follow at a discrete distance in one of those three-men-in-boat floating tent contraptions which with a bit of luck you will be towing. This will protect dog and I, hopefully, from too much exposure to the inevitable maritime calamities including any canine or masculine poop-deck indiscretions.

I'm currently re-jigging a shanty or two to assist when pulling the pints through the locks. Early thoughts, to the tune of 'What shall we do with the drunken sailor...sung lustily and loudly:

What shall we do with the Gransnet banner
Ditto, ditto
When we reach the boozer?

Suggestions, please!

Biker.

Hang on a minute I bagged the Poop Deck first.

OK I will look after him and his doggy doodies but he will have put up with my awful singing once the Bicardi has kicked in.

Usually 'I am sailing' or the 'Good Ship Lollipop'. Poor ruddy pooch.