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Moley Excellent story. I think that you will feel at home here. 
Bud
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Hi Moley, welcome to the gang! You live in a great place for canals....I'm a couple of miles from the Tardebigge locks.
You'll no doubt realise that photos will be required at some stage!
Jays
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He has under trad colour schemes and very nice to
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Warm welcome to TM Moley you have arrived at the right place with your addictions there are many similar people around these parts. Fabulous colour your car is  Many happy miles.
2009 4/4 Sport Henrietta
1999 Indigo Blue +8
2009 4/4 Sport Green prev
1993 Con Green +8 prev
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Hello Moley. Welcome to TM.
I think the canals of the West Midlands are a hidden treasure.
I moved out to rural Worcestershire from the Black Country many years ago. I don't miss much about there but I do miss the canals.
I am in awe at the engineering feat that built the waterways network - one of the finest achievements of it's day.
Adrian B
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Richard
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Sorry to disagree Moley, you and your wife should enjoy the 'free years'....a short time down the road and it will be 'Mom, Dad can you baby sit?'....and a new (and wonderful) chapter will start so enjoy your Morgan whilst you can.....but then you get to take the grandkids out in the Morgan for ice cream and the fun starts all over again.
Many safe miles to you and yours.
BR Colin
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Great read for a Friday morning, hope you and yours (the 4/4 that is) get to spend lots of time together from now on.
Paul
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Thanks for the warm welcomes.
We would certainly be interested to explore the Caledonian Canal one day, I am quite familiar with that area by road but have never seen it from the water.
We have explored a decent proportion of the English and Welsh canals but count ourselves quite fortunate that our home stretch, the lower end of the Staffordshire & Worcestershire canal, has to be one of the nicest. Quite an achievement when you think that most of it was dug out by hand with picks and shovels, but it's some of the tunnels that amaze me the most, not to mention things like the Pontythingy aqueduct near Llangollen.
For those who don't know, that Tardebigge flight mentioned previously is the longest in the country with 30 locks, on the Worcester & Birmingham canal, linking the River Severn with Brum and the Stratford and Grand Union canals. We've been up it a couple of times and it makes a good morning's work. Great fruit trees for the foraging wine maker.
Hello Adrian (NewRoad), can you guess my real name? I met a young lady who happened to be reading those damned Sue Townsend diaries at the time and have been Moley ever since. It came back to bite her as she subsequently became Mrs. Mole.
And hello to the other Mog driver who flashed me this morning coming through Kidderminster (with the roof up). Sorry I didn't get a good look at you as my attention was firmly fixed on my speedometer at the time, being yards from a yellow box on a pole.
Regards,
Ade.
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Get yourself down to Heart of England and ask Mike where Ben is he lives on a narrow boat . I used to make wine myself then give it away at mog meetings . Do mog owners follow any pattern yes they live and dream of mogs , sunny days, the smell of oil etc and if a scantly clad dolly bird walked past they show the same interest as they do for food and beer .  So get out and enjoy yourself . My name's Moley and I'm a canalcoholic.
That's to say that I like a drink, I'm a keen home wine maker and craft brewer, and I like narrowboats and the British inland waterways.
I guess I have always been slightly odd, do Morgan owners follow any particular pattern? Even as a schoolboy, while my friends had wet dreams about Italian supercars, I always liked classic English sports cars.
Having finished school and further education, I regularly used to pass Mike Duncan's small showroom when he was in Colley Gate. Some time later, having found a job but still living with parents, I called in and paid a booking deposit. I was quoted a 7 year wait, and figured that by then I would have saved quite enough.
Then (as I understand it) they stopped making the 4/4 for a while due to trying to sort out engine changes.
By the time my name came up 13 years later, I was married and my savings had been converted into bricks and mortar, but a way was still found.
I also had a very young son by then, and must have agonised for at least 10 seconds whether to change my order for a 4-seater. I didn't.
In June 1994 I collected my car from the factory. Since then it has rarely been used and had resided in my late father's garage, as I haven't got one.
20 years on, that little boy is now away at University, our daughter should be doing the same this September, and my wife and I will be free again.
As I also lost my mother at the end of last year and the house (and garage) is now up for sale, I am forced to build or rent a new home for the Mog, and I am finally managing to use the thing!
I suspect it still has the original factory-fitted Malvern water in the washer bottle.
Glad to have found you.
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