Andrew Denny

The original canal blogger, started July 2003, fell overboard Aug 2012.
Opinions my own, nobody else's.
Still boating. Tel: [phone]
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[Andrew Denny @grannybuttons]

@JamesMelville I only just learned you blocked me on my other account. It's not a big deal, but because I admire & understand your views I have no idea why you did it. It would be great if one was able to explain to others why one was blocking. Social media has a long way to go.

[Andrew Denny @grannybuttons]

@Mike_Fabricant He should be staring at us, his eyes following us around the room, as if to say “Are you spending this wisely? Think again!”
And wearing a crown.

[Wirral Weather @Wirral_Weather]

A very rare event will be visible in the night sky. On the evening of 28 February 2025, all seven of the other planets in the Solar System will appear in the night sky at the same time, with Saturn, Mercury, Neptune, Venus, Uranus, Jupiter, and Mars all lining up in a neat row

[Andrew Denny @grannybuttons]

@GeoffNorcott @TimesRadio Getting my narrowboat to Birmingham so friends can join me as I promised them. I’m clicking my heels because there’s a flood at Alrewas preventing me from continuing the journey.

[Andrew Denny @grannybuttons]

That’s all very well, but a tin of baked beans would then probably cost £3.

[Anon Opin. @anon_opin]

Supermarkets should commit to moving at least 10% of their logistics from road haulage to horse drawn canal barges. The demand for tins is stable, so there's no harm in them taking a bit longer to move around. Huge environmental benefits, though.

[Andrew Denny @grannybuttons]

@Mike_Fabricant Er, you’re not ‘selling’ Cyprus as a Christmas getaway Michael 😂

[Andrew Denny @grannybuttons]

@I_am_Contented With the best will in the world I don’t understand this. I don’t have a problem with vexatious content. Perhaps because I only use the “following” tab instead of the “for you” algorithm?

[Sort Of Interesting @sort_of_dan]

Extreme storm and gales at PontcysylIte Aqueduct!
#stormdarragh #wales #wind #wrexham #llangollen #canal #narrowboat #flood #flooding #winter

[Andrew Denny @grannybuttons]

@theoutlanes @TheEconomist Journalists just swallow any special pleading without knowing the facts behind it. "Kings' canal charity" indeed!

[Andrew Denny @grannybuttons]

"King's canal charity" - how did you work that one out, @tjsigsworth @Telegraph? https://t.co/adwj4J9gee

[Andrew Denny @grannybuttons]

@Crouchcrouch4 @Mike_Fabricant (After retirement he continued to live in Lichfield while wearing red trousers)

[Andrew Denny @grannybuttons]

@Crouchcrouch4 @Mike_Fabricant He is simply saying MP Emeritus (l) vs MP
(as in the retired pope)

[Andrew Denny @grannybuttons]

@Mike_Fabricant Orson Welles!

[Andrew Denny @grannybuttons]

@TomTheyy @DCTTrips Agreed, they should have used the genuine, unique living Santa, like they do on the tunnel trips.

[Andrew Denny @grannybuttons]

@Mike_Fabricant Phew, we had a lucky escape! 😂

[Andrew Denny @grannybuttons]

"The Apprenticed Lightermen" (1963). How fast this was about to be swept away by containerisation! https://t.co/KBzUlmOKDn Notice the lack of lifejackets, yet the training on how to swim in your clothes. You don't see it now because it's no longer your job to look after yourself.

[Andrew Denny @grannybuttons]

@guardianstyle style guide alert: in Shoard’s excellent profile of Leonard Rossiter, trooper vs trooper

[Andrew Denny @grannybuttons]

@kevincox4 @DCTTrips Obviously you have. I think his point is he wants you to fork out taxpayer money to pay an artist to paint the picture. It’s a bit like my old school demanding I use a fountain pen instead of a biro.

[Andrew Denny @grannybuttons]

I wish I could read music. Can someone put me out of my misery and tell me what this tune is?

[Andrew Denny @grannybuttons]

@pigsonthewing @sarahprobert As a photographer who trained 50 years ago, my german college lecturer imbued in me a hatred of 'tilted horizons und conferging ferticals', so I fixed it for you all (It was hugely harder to do this in the 1970s).