A load of Bull?

And another thing that I would have made a comment on is this re-organisation that BW has just imposed upon itself.

Yes - yet another re-organisation! How many in that in the last decade or so?

As far as the Pennine Waterways website area is concerned, most of Yorkshire is one area, Merseyside and most of Lancashire is another, while most of the South Pennine and Cheshire Rings make up a third - the Manchester and Pennine area. Our "M" is not so sure about this as, when getting information for his website, he now has to deal with three lots of BW staff instead of two.

The hope is that by creating more but smaller areas, BW's management and office staff will be more in touch with what's happening on the ground. That seems to be a good idea - until you realise that the office from which the Manchester and Pennine area is run from is situated at Red Bull, by the Trent and Mersey Canal near Kidsgrove!

The staff there have to be in touch with canals as far away as Huddersfield, Sowerby Bridge, Hebden Bridge and Manchester. How long would it take someone to drive from Red Bull to Todmorden or Marsden? How familiar will staff working in the office be with these waterways?

The re-organisation may or may not be a good idea, but locating the Manchester and Pennine office on the outskirts of Stoke-on-Trent is a load of Red Bull!

Ben-9