On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:04:18 +0100, Phil Cook wrote:

> And lo on Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:38:52 +0100, Jim Henderson
> <nos### [at] nospamcom> did spake, saying:
> 
>> On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:19:54 +0100, Phil Cook wrote:
>>
>>> http://www.waterscape.com/map
>>>
>>> Just to demonstrate how far around you could get.
>>
>> Cool, thanks for that. :-)
> 
> Heh the sort of thinking that comes from living on a canal town and
> having a canal-boat builder just over the road. On the downside the
> permanent moorings have gone up in price at the moment because British
> Waterways are trying out a new system of auctions in order "to gauge the
> true market value of them" one of the reasons houses with attached
> mooring rights are so popular.

That makes sense to me - seems somewhat similar to the idea of a "lake 
house" that was common in the area I grew up in.

Jim

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