Our public sevice broadcasting slipped up this week when I forgot to put up the dates for this weeks Cumbria Canoeists talks by Gordon Brown (no not that one!). Anyway, just wanted say that it was an oversight in case it was interpreted as a river runners conspiracy!

The next dates are;

Tues 3rd Feb - Kendal

Doung Ammons 'Extreme White Water' Mon 9th March - Keswick and Tues 10th March - Kendal

If you 20 minutes to spare and want to learn how to update the site we still have vacancies for 'public service broadcaster' and 'porn correspondent'.  As ever guest blog entries about any aspect of the sport would be really welcome and read by a few hundred folk.

Here is a little bit of something to wet your appetite and hopefully keep you going to the next bit of wet stuff. The hucking huge crew have been out and made this, looks good. Also read this and thought lucky people. And finally some erm light hearted entertainment or not! 

Cheers

The rivers are very low, still, after the long cold and dry spell. There is a thaw forecast though. Rain will appear from the North West on Saturday afternoon in Scotland and we will get the dregs of it here by Sunday morning. Most of it will land north of the border. Sunday afternoon is the best bet if you can't travel North, but it's not looking that good.

Tides are quite high. The surf forecast is unpromising for the North East coast.

I've put the early calibration readings on DBP here but we could really do with more readings - if you're passing the Eamont, Greta or Duddon and they nudge up, it would be really helpful if you could snap a picture at Birks or Ulpha bridges on the Duddon, the get on at the Greta and Pooley Bridge on the Eden. We would also need to know the time that the picture was taken.