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Turn your blog into a printed book!

On February 15, 2011 By mike

Well here I am three years after buying Zulu so what to do with the blog now that I am no longer the owner? Well one option is to print it out as a hardback book; I have just discovered that for a fairly modest fee, your blog can be printed into a book online, [...]

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Links

On March 11, 2010 By mike

Today I have at long last updated my rather poor list of other canal blogs, from 3 to 165 give or take a few.

So if I have in any way missed your own site, or made any sort of error with your own link, don’t hesitate to get in touch and I will fix [...]

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Sign of the week

On December 21, 2009 By mike

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Lost in the post

On February 23, 2009 By mike

Digressing from canals for a minute, I need to vent some steam after a seemingly endless dialog between me, two guys who bought something from me on Ebay, a guy I bought something from on Ebay and the DVLA.

To cut a long story short I sold my old car to someone in Poland. I wanted to [...]

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Big Lock (pub) Middlewich reopens

On December 10, 2008 By mike

When Zulu arrived in Middlewich I was pretty alarmed to find that the Big Lock pub was closed. Apparently the pub chain which held the lease had gone bust in September the tenants had to leave. A pub without lights is a terrible sight and with so many closing for good, this didn’t look a [...]

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A quick peek at Portishead

On December 10, 2008 By mike

I was in the Bristol area with a couple of hours to kill on Saturday and in such a situation I always try to visit somewhere new on the waterways. So while the sun was shining I made a quick detour down to the Severn to check out Portishead Quay Marina, the overnight staging point [...]

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