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CanalplanAC down (for a short while)

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

Andrew noted in his twitter box at GrannyButtons that CanalPlanAC was down. It was for me too, so I checked with a site-Uptime service and it said the server was down (that is mihalis.net rather than the canalplanac domain). So a bit of digging and I found:
Nick Atty’s Canal Route planner (Canalplan AC) will be [...]

You’ve got to be Quackers…

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

There are tons of canal events and festivals that occur, and whilst large ones such as Crick will always attract 1000’s of visitors, how do you make a less known one a successful event? One way could be to host an unusual competition, such as the Duck Race being held in the Delph Locks for [...]

Blisworth Tunnel (day 2 of GUC cruise)

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

You can, if it lets you, get carried away producing or improving any video project you are working on – usually there’s a deadline by which you need to finish them. Not so with my video’s, so I could take forever re-tinkering with them, however I’ve tried not to. Producing these time lapse video’s has [...]

Extreme Lock Painting (Day 11 on my GUC cruise)

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

GU Canal D11 Lock, Sink, and Tunnel to Braunston
Day eleven of my September 2007 cruise down the GUC sees us almost back to base. As a side note I finished this video in early April, but no idea why I forgot to actually put up an entry for it here?
It was a sunny but [...]