Alan de Enfield

That was the point - I was agreeing with you. They'd had enough and 12 years ago decided to do something.

2014 before the big clean out began. Kennet & Avon Canal, west of Devizes In August we produced the first quarterly report (covering May – July) on the Kennet & Avon Local Plan and presented it to the local Waterway Partnership for their information. The report, which is published on our website, showed that a total of 6,954 boat sightings (1,291 individual boats) have been recorded in the K&A Local Plan area between Bath and Foxhangers. On visitor moorings, 99 boats were sighted as having exceeded the free mooring period on a first occasion and were contacted to remind them about the plan. 22 boats were sighted as coming to the end of their free mooring period on a second occasion. Of these, four boats have exceeded the free mooring period on more than one occasion and been issued with extended stay charges. In terms of moving between neighbourhoods, during the period six 14-day sighting reports have been completed. 147 boats have not moved since the last 14 day sighting. They have been contacted by text, email or phone to remind them to move, or if there is a reason that they cannot move to contact the Trust. 93 have been contacted once, 36 have been contacted twice, 12 have been contacted three times and 6 have been contacted on four or more occasions. As a result of receiving multiple 14 day reminders, 18 boats have been sent a letter reminding them that if they do not follow the Local Plan they may attract the attention of enforcement officers. We are continuing the recruitment and induction of volunteer visitor mooring rangers. And an extract from the final summary in 2015 Between 1 February and 30 April 2015 data checkers completed 10 separate 14 day sightings in the K&A Local Plan area. During this period 199 unique boats were identified that did not move between two or more sightings Boat owners have been contacted by text, email or letter to remind them to move, or to contact the trust if there is a reason that they cannot move. 95 have been contacted once 40 have been contacted twice 16 have been contacted three times 18 have been contacted four or more times The Trust is in contact with the owners of the remaining 30 boats for a number of different reasons. Allowances were made when ice on the canal made movement difficult or dangerous. All of the boats that received multiple 14 day reminders in this period were already in the enforcement process.

Similar to a 'certain marina' on the River soar - the debt got to £160,000 before C&RT decided to do something about it.

It takes me thru several pages explaining what each area does but then until you download the app you can go no further ........ 2026 Lockmaster AI · Built for the Grand Union, the Kennet & Avon, and every muddy stretch in between · Launch App Although why any one on the K&A needs to worry about stoppages I don't know - mind you, they may find the pub details useful.

I find that the biggest difference between a 12v and a 230v kettle is the time taken to boil, and thus the 12v uses far more energy because ............... If the 12v kettle has a 100 heating element, in a perfect world, it will take 20 times as long to boil as a 2kw 230v kettle. All of the time it is being heated it will be losing heat thru the kettle walls, and will be losing this heat for 20+ times as long as the 230v kettle. That energy has to be found from somewhere. I used to have a 12v 100w heating coil that you plugged into a cigarette lighter socket and put the element into a mug water to make a cup of tea. As a 'commercial traveller' my plan was to have a cup of tea ready for me after (say) an hours drive - I don't think I ever, even after driving several hours, managed to get a hot cup of tea.

My guess would be vibration, movement, large temperature changes and (potential) impacts.

They should have learned from Australia!

Phenomenal !! The Chinese certainly take a longer term view of investments than 'we' do (when the Politicians are looking only at will give a quick return) You have to have respect for their technologies. Shame other aspects of the country are less wholesome.

And that's a principal going back to Victorian times - maybe we should re-introduce the "Workhouse", where the poor can live, work and earn a copper or two.

When I fitted the new kitchen in the camper, the "Gas Man" said I needed bigger holes in the floor, a bigger hole in the gas locker floor, and a CO alarm (no mention of a Smoke alarm, but I fitted both.

Budget ?

One of the early uses of Raddle was to show if a ewe had been covered - still in use today. The raddle was/is held in a small container on a chest harness worn by the ram, when he mounts the ewe the raddle rubs off and leaves a mark on the ewes back,the shepherd could then note the date, and when the time came, make arrangements for her containment. The 1st known (written) records for the use of Raddle (Ruddle in some places) as markings for sheep goes back to 1648 1648 I marked my sheepe, 101 ewes of my owne with fresh redle on the narr sholder, (Thurlstone) 1669 a fat Wether out of his Croft, marked with raddle on the head, one Eare slitt the other cropt, (Sheffield) 1688 one other sheep ridled on the head, (Kilnsey) 1701 a raddle marke along the Rigg, (Skipton). The varied spellings are found also in minor place-names: Raddlepits, Riddle Clough, Riddle Pit.