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  1. I have it in my left ear but have you called the Tinnitus helpline? I tried it once but it just kept ringing......................
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  2. It seems a fairly pointless exercise to canvas a boat forum about whether the numbers of such boats are increasing (or decreasing) as without proper statistical data all you will get is heresay and the anecdotes of a handful of respondents which is never going to be representative. On the other hand, if it's just an excuse for another moan carry on by all means if that's your thing.
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  3. I think you'll find that if the Composters are doing it properly they stir more shit, more often than almost anyone else
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  5. I walked by the Reading Tesco moorings this morning. Boats that have been tied up on the public moorings there for three years are still there, along with a variety of other boats breasted up to them. This pointless effort by Reading Council of having a 'parking enforcement' contractor put up outrageous signs full of threats and endless legal-ese is just another over-the-top reaction to the problem of a tiny minority of boaters colonising public moorings. CRT and the EA have done the same thing in miscellaneous places around the system. Unless these various authorities actually follow through and enforce those signs nothing will change. But we all know that it's a fool's errand (expensive, tiring, lengthy) trying to get payment or movement from people who have no intention of either.The only people who suffer are the vast majority of boaters who love these waterways and follow the spirit of responsibly cruising and living on them. They will be the ones who don't stop and visit and enjoy these places, and the communities posting the idiotic signs will be left with colonies of anti-social boaters. A lose-lose situation. BTW, cruise round the corner and up to the Reading Gaol moorings ... and you find similar signs requesting £9.50/night, payable over the phone. And lots of other warnings. Nice one Reading.
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  7. Relax, as Bob Marley said, evra liddle ting gonna be alright.
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  8. A trip from Bourne End, to just shy of Marlow from the air. Cheers, Mike
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  12. I have a slight theory about using motorways ( which are still considered the safest form of driving!). For each lane you should have a 'speed range' this would help in keeping the traffic flowing. Eg Lane 1: 55-65 mph ( allow for joining traffic as well as slow moving lorries etc) Lane 2: 60-70 Mph ( allow for overtaking lorries) Lane 3: 65-75 mph. Plenty of putfalls i am I am sure as well as how to enforce, allow for merging lanes etc.
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  14. Opening the black door behind the steps in the car park of the Golden Fleece in Lymm revealed this today. It was clean and tidy but didn't look that recently used. A couple of crisp packets had blown in. There is no lock on the door, just a slide bolt. I imagine calling for a drink in the pub might not go amiss if this is a private Elsan sluice. The pub was closed this morning and I couldn't find anyone to ask. This facility is not listed on the Bridgewater Canal web site listing the facilities available. The water tap and a piece of hose are there to rinse your container. One other water tap for boaters passing is on the west wall of Marsland Road Bridge (34) in Sale just before you reach the Sale Cruising Club site. Its reasonably easy to tie up there.
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  15. Agreed! Lol , you are in their garden, bar a Mtr strip, just 1.9 mtrs you can sit down at their kitchen table!!! whats for breakfast then!!!
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  16. With all due respect it comes down to how good the air curtain is running up the front of your glass, my aarrow stove would do with just a wipe from a wet cloth or baby wipe like yours but the villager is a nightmare ... Rick
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  17. East coast, muddy bottom. West coast rocky bottom. Own bottom, crinkly.
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  19. You are all wrong about motorway lane discipline. The inside lane is for those queuing to leave at the next junction, the middle lane is for those jumping the queue to leave at the next junction and the outside lane is for everyone else plus a few jumping the queue of queue jumpers. They will sort themselves out by all suddenly veering left on the basis that a gap will open because nobody wants an accident.
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  20. Acorn joose or WW2 Gurman ersatz coughy.
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  21. No. Ambling along a towpath concentrating on whatever takes your fancy does not make you dangerous. It might make you unpredictable, however anything not in your immediate control may be described thus. Which is why C&RT want cyclists to dismount and walk their bikes around pedestrians they encounter. Every time one relies upon "ting ting" and then swerves around you has done no more than take a guess at which way you're likely to step. Usually with no threat to their own well being. I don't even want to experience the shock of a person on a lump of metal suddenly careering around me from no where, let alone waking up in hospital because I'd stooped to the right to pick up my dog's Doo-Doo.
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  22. Aye - sounds good. With layers I've found that although there is supposedly a 10 layer limit in practice it doesn't work with more than 8 layers - causes random errors. I've now got quite a lot of the locks in the user contribution layer (from non CRT waters) – these can be moved into the base layers once they are set to the correct angle. On the data licence for user contributions I think we just want to pick the one that has most flexibly - i.e. free use with modifications for commercial / non commercial use and no need to attribute the data to any author - something like that anyway - no restriction on data.
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  23. I'm doing some investigating - will let you know.
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  25. Like a lot of people with poor hearing it's the high frequencies that I can't hear so something with a range of frequencies would be better - provided it's not a klaxon.
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  28. Just one thing that may help. If you buy a narrowboat an ex hire still fitted as such would probably be best for you. Most will have two bathrooms/toilets and enough beds without messing around with the fitout.
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  31. irritating, however gives other towpath users good advance warning of a bike coming and then they can decided what action they want to take without a 'ting-ting' from two feet behind them!
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  32. Here is a reply I received from Simarine. as promised, please find attached a history statistic screen. For the moment is statistic screen locked in Pico, because we made a better one and will be automatically updated with next firmware update in about 10-14 days. You will see a statistic for the every consumer or generator separately, also for all of them together and see it for up to 3 months back.
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  33. It might be do-able as a continuous cruiser without breaking the rules, if you are prepared to spend some money on rail fares. With railway stations at Tackley, Heyford. Kings Sutton, Banbury and Leamington Spa which have direct links to Oxford, you could spend at least 20 weeks travelling but mooring for 14 days within range of these. With a bit of imagination and a bicycle, this could be stretched out legitimately for the entire academic year.
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  35. You and I tend to cruise similar canals. I rarely see "antisocial cycling" although as with everything, the one maniac is memorable whilst the 100 normal ones aren't. Perhaps there are more maniacal cyclists in the likes of London? However I think there is a touch of self-importance and self-righteousness here, the same condition that causes people to cruise along in the middle of the cut at tickover whilst chanting their mantra "you mustn't hurry on the canals", pretending not to notice the queue of people behind wanting to overtake. Similarly the people who drive at 40mph in a 60 limit and are then outraged when you overtake. Some people just feel that they are empowered to set the speed that everyone else has to go at. I don't like those sort of people. Personally I see no problem with the vast majority of cyclists. When I hear the ting, I move out of the way if I can. Why wouldn't I? There is no virtue in being deliberately obstructive to someone going at a different speed. There is virtue in being considerate, sharing the space and making room for other people with different agendas to me when I can do so with minimal effort.
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  37. Then you will have no problems with 'business' licences, insurance or BSS - carry on 'as you were'. It sounds as if you provide a valuable service to those in need.
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  41. I'm just waiting on my watt meter to arrive and then I will hopefully be able to calculate a much more accurate audit. Again, I can only apologise for my inaccuracies so far. And I'm honestly not intentionally being uncooperative. I'm sorry that you've taken the questions I've asked in that way. And on this point, they are neither paid for courses, nor will they be held aboard. Basically I volunteer run a workshop for vulnerable single mothers and their children in collaboration with an art gallery in south london, and one of the workshops we run involves baking little items into bread for them to find in their loaves. This means the kids making things during one workshop and then me going home (alone) and sticking them into the bread maker surrounded by flour. Most of them don't even eat them or manage to get them home to mum and dad but just tear them open at the next workshop and play with them. I choose to do it with a bread maker because it would be more time consuming to make the bread by hand than just stick it in the machine, and as I say I do this as a volunteer. As I'd mentioned before I am willing to just not run this workshop anymore, or not cook it from the boat etc. etc. if the electricity would be too much for it, but as others have mentioned they are able to run these sorts of items then I have just been trying to understand the best solution to enable me to run them too. It would not, as I understand it, require any further insurance or licensing. Thank you so much to everyone who has shared information about generators - I will sit and have a good read through that victron test and look at the Fischer Panda's, so thank you to those who shared that
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  42. That is very interesting and may well be the issue with mine, I will now strip it down and check and maybe replace. Glad to hear you are carrying on boating, everything seems daunting the first time until you do it, then you have a sense of great achievement and think ...what was I worries about.
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  43. Thanks to everyone who responded to my query. I have learned a lot of useful info! I called Ed Shiers and he came out and sussed out the problem: while the Ebi itself was newly installed a year ago the old pipework is still in place and the diesel intake pipe has filled with scale over a decade, narrowing it to a point that the unit is not getting sufficient fuel to run; the exception being when the diesel tank has just been filled and there is sufficient pressure to force diesel through the narrowed pipe. Since my husband Les died, the learning curve for me on mechanical things has been huge. I took him and his knowledge and experience with these things for granted. I wish I had thanked him more often for all he did that kept us moving. Les loved this boat (as do I) and he loved all the tinkering he did so I just let him get on with it while I baked bread, washed clothes, and tidied the boat inside. Les used to tell me frequently that I made our boat a lovely home but now I know that what he did down in the engine hole is the crucial stuff that kept us going. I am not mechanical and I despise fiddling with nuts, bolts and bits and getting my hands dirty but I will do whatever it takes to take care of our boat and keep things running properly. I've done my first oil change and other than being a messy job to clean up, it was actually a dawdle once I knew how to do it. I hope to feel as confident some day about the stern gland! My deepest thanks to everyone who posted on this topic. It helps tremendously and I don't feel so alone. Jaq xxx
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  44. Yes but what exactly is your point. We've agreed some people never do anything right. So............. What..............? Conclusion.............? This thread is set to run and run. Keeps everyone happy, the composters get to promote their wares, they are happy, the usual shit stirrers get to whinge, whine and be negative, they are happy too! The mods should be on overtime monitoring this thread, time and a turd.
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  45. Right, prejudices aside, I think composting bogs attempt to do the same sort of shit processing that sewage farms do. Fine if the processing really IS the same but it obviously isn't. Yer average user prolly properly composts a few buckets full then runs out of storage space and atarts compromising. Eventually the compromising gets so big they end up dumping virtually raw shit in the bins as they can't be arsed to spend 3-6 months having all the buckets littering up the fordeck.
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  46. All of your points I largly agree with, apart from the suitability of domestic waste to landfill as a solution to dispose of human waste. All of the above also assumes that users of compost bogs do actually compost because I guarantee a fair few dont, in which case its dumping raw sewage into domestic waste bins. They are a great idea if you have the ability to properly compost the waste and dispose of it and personally I don't think that disposal should be in any other than private gardens either your own or with agreement of the owner.
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  47. Because spreading muck following approved methods is completly different from double bagging human waste and throwing it in a bin to be dumped in a mixed use landfill
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  48. Do you have a source for this claim? My understanding is that this waste is what makes your potatoes grow. It's spread over farmers' fields.
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  49. To a degree I agree with you, considered disposal of properly composted waste in your own garden is a fine achievement. Throwing anything into a landfill is a backward step, apart from possibly Blackburn Lancashire, holes in the ground are a finite resource
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