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  1. Hm. I haven't have any notifications of photos or responses to them. I don't get multiple replies to a topic. When I click on a topic title I get taken straight to the last unread post. I don't always log in when I look at the forum, sometimes I'm on my laptop, sometimes on my phone - it makes no difference, I still get MyVNC just the way I want it. I don't care that there are no post numbers. I don't care that I can't see anyone's total reputation points. I haven't noticed any large white spaces. I don't expect the admin/mods, who are as new to this software as everyone else, to be able to fix everyone's different issues immediately. Things change, that's life. It's just new software, not the end of the world.
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  2. If you re-arrange the letters it spells Rachel too. In a previous life there was a forum poster called Phylis who had a white tupperware craft. She enjoyed antagonising folks and allegedly wrote "the Art of Doing Lift and Swing Bridges" which unfortunately never made it to print as she lost the manuscript. Following a few major flounces, and a conviction for speeding around the Bayford Pool in Lincoln, she disappeared for a while. A new forum member joined , with the same boat and mooring location as Phylis used to have. NaughtyCal took over the mantle and was the same kind of person.☺ After a few flounces and a couple of short term bans, she had a major flounce to end all flounces and left the forum, posting elsewhere that we were all vermin and no good , and she would never come back. She does have a friend, Tony Dunkerly however, he hasn't been seen recently.
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  3. Yes, but they didn't ask for the whip round as far as I can see. It was started by their friends and fellow traders. It aint compulsory...
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  5. Just after the mr
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  6. I am based near the Trent and expect to be travelling up and down there fairly frequently, and whilst I know I could easily manage without one, having one will make life a bit easier. The cost isnt really an issue....and its fun learning something new!
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  7. Not sure where I was rude.....
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  8. http://collage.cityoflondon.gov.uk/view-item?key=SXsiUCI6eyJ2YWx1ZSI6ImNhbmFscyIsIm9wZXJhdG9yIjoxLCJmdXp6eVByZWZpeExlbmd0aCI6MywiZnV6enlNaW5TaW1pbGFyaXR5IjowLjc1LCJtYXhTdWdnZXN0aW9ucyI6MywiYWx3YXlzU3VnZ2VzdCI6bnVsbH19&pg=1&WINID=1488552954295#
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  9. I only sell boats to a select few ha ha
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  10. Chris and Lisa. You got a beauty. Proper engine too. Seen that lovely boat thundering down the GU a few times.
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  12. Or even decent batteries
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  13. I didnt mention 12 year olds here did I? You have got to be a bloke you keep firing off half cocked women are not that daft only US blokes.
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  14. I have just showed Olive how to remove the bulbs from two halogen type lamps (not the long silver one) and showed them how to check for a supply in case a failed bulb turns out to be a broken cable. I have left two sets of calculations with her so she can answer this question herself but after discussing her boat and her use of it I am sure 2 x 110Ah batteries will be fine as long as she grasps the need to keep them well charged. I strongly suspect that if money is tight she could get away with just one 110Ah domestic battery, her boat has a split charge system on it. To do so may result in a less than optimum battery life though.
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  15. You could say the same about this forum from some of the comments
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  16. Hi Rog Good question and that was our preferred approach. It was all about timing alas. I really wanted to do the Thames :-( Sadly closure of the flight on Caen Hill, combined with our current marina mooring being up for renewal beginning of March and the unknown unknown of what would be happening on the Thames at this time of year (I am self employed Consultant in IT so I have live clients) - I could not risk being stuck in Abingdon for weeks/months on end trying to get there. Road was much easier solution giventhese factors aka time of year. Thanks for the warm welcome ! Karen
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  17. I agree. I recognise a few that are not attributed correctly. I go by the gasometers!
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  20. The longer the boat, the more of a visitor mooring it takes up. Isn't that sufficient justification for a sliding scale of licence fees?
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  21. Whilst watching an episode of Flower Pot Men on YouTube I was struck with a thought, instead of castles on the doors what about this scene?
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  23. Interesting Athy. My understanding of a Rodney boat was one that wasn't cared for. Often crewed by a single man who didn't bother with keeping the cabin clean let alone scrubbing down the outside of the boat end of day or doing the brasses as he went.
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  25. I see now why they made LSD illegal in 1966.
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  26. Because her username used to be Phylis. I very much doubt your real name is Neil2 but if someone mentions Neil2, we know who they mean.
    1 point
  27. It is not spam. It is a coincidence. Until very recently, no one was adding photos to the gallery or commenting on them. It's a bit rude to call it spam.
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  28. And an isolation transformer (IT) is an alternative (many but not all would say superior) method of achieving the same galvanic isolation. It has nothing whatsoever to do with circuit or personal protection and most certainly shouldn't add danger such as a pair of bodged site transformers might.
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  29. Wasn't it Bentine who also had the flea circus? Or was that Bernie Winters? Him of Schnorbitz fame.
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  31. Yea But.. Evening classes have come to late for some of us. Well past our bed times.
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  32. So when you are drawing lots of fuel the engine dies but will start again if rested for a while. This is the classic symptom of a blocked breather on the fuel tank. Try it with the fuel filler off but protect the hole from the rain. If that makes no difference then I would agree with Wotever, time to change the filters. This will involve bleeding the engine except some engines are self bleeding. Once the filter(s) are changed empty them, possibly cut them apart so you can see what they have caught to get early earning of bug/water problems. Note that a good installation will have more than just the main filter on the engine. There should be at least one more filter like thing between tank and engine. If this is an older British engine like a BMC, Lister or Perkins there is likely to be a strainer gauze under the domed cap on the fuel lift pump. This needs checking as well. If there is still not improvement then you are looking at potential air leaks into the fuel lines or a blockage at the fuel tank outlet. If you have the skills and parts try rigging a small tank to feed the lift pump directly. That will rule out the tank, pipes and filters. What engine? I may be able to visit this afternoon or on Saturday, ring 01189874285. Do you have any tools aboard? I assume that you are by the Cunning Man or tied to a sign below the bridge.
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  33. And dangerous. CO from the exhaust will flow down into the cabin where it has nowhere to escape to. Petrol generators should never be run on a cruiser stern deck.
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  34. This is missing the point. Panda et al are always on the lookout for new ways of avoiding moving. This is just the latest angle on that. The children are just being manipulated/used as a tool for furthering the goals of the adults. I don't think Panda even has any children of skool age.
    1 point
  35. Most enjoyable,had no objection to the North American commentary Saw a Video in the 70's made in the U.K., the Narrators Voice was a mixture of Leonard Cohen, a 'Speak your weight ' Machine and Marvin the manic Robot from hitch hikers Guide to the Galaxy. A slight oversight was the omission of the forthcoming 'Rodney Invasion' which ruined much of the good works of the W.R.G. and many other Canal restoration Societies CT
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  36. I don't want to be misrepresented as giving any defence for the odious Poll Tax, but it was avoidable if you chose to make sure that your name wasn't on the register. This of course helped the people who came up with the idea (to enrich their already wealthy friends) because then the people who opposed it wouldn't be able to vote. The only good thing that came out of the Poll Tax was the fact it was the beginning of the end for Thatcher. Interestingly of your other examples, they are also avoidable (not necessarily legally) since you can avoid income tax by not declaring work done. As far as CGT goes, I would have thought selling your investments would be exactly the thing that would trigger the payment of CGT. The 'smart' way of avoiding it is to transfer your investments (at a loss) to some complicated tax vehicle based in the British Virgin Islands. Isn't that the sort of thing that nice Philip Green would do?
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  38. it is hardly worth going over old ground again, suffice to say that whenever I paid the tax I took a mixed uncounted bag of coinage to the value of the owed amount to the council office since, due to the job I was doing any other form of protest would have cost me my job. How a system whereby let us say on a Poll Tax figure of £300 and a disposable income of £10,000 (this was back in 1990) I would pay 3% of my disposable income in Poll Tax, some deserving case, let us say Philip Green with his disposable income of a trifling £1.000.000 then has to stump up a staggering 0.03% of his disposable income to pay the tax, and that is fair is it? Al least your retired widow on a pension has the option of reducing her liability by downsizing, there was no escape from the Poll Tax, Let us perhaps try the the same system with income tax, flat rate it so that those at the bottom of the pile will have to pay substantially more so that those who already have more money than they know what to do with can pay less. The crappiest idea ever to come out of government and the rioting was fully justified
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  39. Beam can be determined even more easily, surely, (you need a much shorter tape measure, in most cases). So really virtually as easy to price on area as on length, (they don't have much trouble working out from a table at the first Thames lock you arrive at).
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