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Bit of a rum do on the way home from work tonight. There I was breezing down the canal towpath when the handlebars on my bike suddenly slipped to the right and become wobbly. 'Oh shit' I thought (like you do) 'here comes the canal', but, fortunately I just managed to stop in time. As I was there trying to figure out just what the feck had happened a *proper* cyclist appeared. You know the type: clothes like a second skin, helmet, bike that probably cost as much as my car and an unbelievably aerodynamic, tanned-to-perfection, body.
'Problem ?'
'Errrr...yeah my handlebars...I...errr....'
He takes one look and says 'I've got something to sort that'. Delving into a Tardis-like saddle bag he pulls out tool after tool before finally settling on the one that fits the frame of my purple, girly bike perfectly.
Seconds later everything is sorted and he zips off like some 21st century superman.
Now I know almost exactly how women must feel when they break down in the car and some guy comes along and sorts it for them. I say almost because he wasn't staring at my tits, asking me out for a drink or calling me 'babe', 'darling' or 'sweetheart'.
As I carried on down the towpath towards Failsworth I was glad to see two barges using ths part of the canal. It only re-opened last summer after...around 50 years of neglect. New marinas have been created, locks have been repaired and the whole lot has been dredged and dredged and dredged. When it opened it meant that a barge could now sail from Manchester city centre to Sowerby Bridge. From Sowerby the Skipton Canal becomes accessible and from there, so I am lead to believe, you can get pretty much everywhere.
They had a big ceremony to reopen it. It really was something that lifted your spirits. Dozens of decorated barges came from Yorkshire down to Manchester and berthed all along the newly refurbished banks. It was great talking to these guys; they had been looking forward to this for years.
That night the barges were bricked by dickheads and I've not seen one from that day till...today.
The underclass eh ? Don't you just love 'em ?
This post was brought to you by Tom Waits.
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