eastglosmog

If you peruse Dante's Inferno, Cantos 32 to 34, you will see that Hell has already frozen over.

My Geography teacher would have agreed - East Anglia comprised the Northfolk and the Southfolk and no-one else.

Was naming a loco Lady Godiva any worse than the Southern naming one after that famous Arthurian adulterer Sir Lancelot? 🙂 Mind you my class at primary school was named Lancelot but they never expounded on that part of his character................

Tilly hates vegetables. She won't even eat them if mixed with fish. I am careful not to waste my money on cat food adulterated with veg.

Sorry, wandering off topic again, but no need to drain the pound above. The upper gate with paddles shut will keep enough water back to keep the water level up. While the upper gate leaks, the leaks will not exceed the inflow rate to the pound above (well, not normally), and more importantly will be less than the outflow rate from the lock below if the latter has all paddles (and gates, if necessary) open. Some water may come round the bypass weirs, but again can be dealt with by keeping the gates of the lower lock open.

Not necessarily dammed. The bottom gate is open, so could be any lock (above the bottom one) of a flight, with the intermediate pound drained through the next lock down.

At the risk of being accused of more thread drift - at least it would remain upright and you could get a rope round the bows to lift it.

From my days navigating narrow boats, the side thrusts are not equal. From what I can remember, the lower arc does not counteract the upper arc exactly because of the greater water pressure on the lower arc giving greater thrust.

Hail, thunder and wind! Tilly is not happy.

For something that needs attention and lacks buffers, £159.56 is a bit steep: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/195844949950 I've just bought a new one that runs perfectly and has all its buffers for £154.18!

I think you have underestimated! It was doing about 8 knots, so over 4m/s.

Depends how much money you are prepared to throw at it. The Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay (depth 47ft) has pier base platforms 55ft wide by 99feet long. They were built for the new bridge, which replaced the old one which had been brought down by the MV Summit Venture in 1980, killing 35 people.

Worcester Foregate St has the A38 (Sansome Walk) going under it

Sadly not the first and unlikely to be the last case of a bridge being demolished by a passing ship. Need hefty barriers around the pillar bases to protect them.

The wind was too cold for an old arthritic cat this morning, but Tilly found the sunshine on my bed was just right: