The people behind canalboat heating and generator specialist Kuranda are selling a bijou canalside cottage in the sweetly named Tea Pot Row, close by Bugsworth Basin at Whaley Bridge.
There's a picture of Tea Pot Row here. There's another one here, (taken at the reopening of Bugsworth Basin last year) which suggests that not every resident of Teapot Row was happy to have the basin reopened)
There are perhaps half a dozen canal locations where I'd be happy to settle down with my pipe, slippers and dog (to say nothing of the wife), and a cottage in Tea Pot Row would be high on my list. After all, it's not only canalside, it's actually within rambling distance of the Peak District. Delightful. (Even though I'd be living next door to the MOG who didn't want the Basin reopened.)
Ooh, that reminds me, I need to call Kuranda - they are the UK distributors for my Kabola Old English diesel heater - the one that leaked all over Granny Buttons' floor. There are supposed to be two devices that stop the leaking if the flame goes out; neither appear to have worked (I had the heater serviced at Streethay last December).
I'm not sure yet where the problem arose. As I understand it, if there's a nice blue flame tinged with orange (as pictured, in early March - was I prescient to photograph it, or what?) then everything's ticking along nicely, and indeed for seven years it's run weeks at a time without a twitch, just the occasional weekly twirl on the twiddly bit at the bottom. On Granny Buttons, it was running fine, I went away for a few days, and... and I'm now waiting for clearance from the insurance company for Ian of Aynho Dock Services to start replacing the floor, ballast and diesel-soaked insulation.
I'd much rather have a sweet little canalside cottage for the rest of my life. But I'd still have a little canal boat moored outside, for the occasional trip around the country. I've got neither at the moment, and I certainly can't afford a bijou canalside cottage (sob).
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