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How he speaks to her is difficult to truly judge, I watche mum decline through alzimers and also saw dad apparently become less patient with mum, similar in many ways to how Tim and Pru interact. Also I saw a 55yr relationship become a carers role, I saw dad doing all the housework, cooking, all the work normally divided became his. I also saw mum becoming more snappy, more impatiant and in many ways dangerous to herself. In the end dad was cleaning mum putting her to bed dressing her and she had become in many ways a small child again. Its hard to judge but what I see is a man frustrated and saddened by whats happening to the woman he loves

Sorry about this rant being off topic but my experience on tow path and road leads me to believe that there is a majority of cyclists who are just plain arrogant or anti social. Bob

Just spoke to the engineer- it's all in good order apart from the central heating, which isn't dangerous and doesn't affect the boat, so...

Have you ever thought that on hearing this "tale" so many times it may actually be true? It is on our case. The thing is you are making a judgement based on your own bias whilst I am saying what is actually true in our case. She will not steer the boat and does not want to. She does drive a car and does that well but just doesn't want to on the boat. So, perhaps when someone who does not drive, says they are not interested in doing so you don't believe them either? We all find our own way. We should be happy to let folk get on with it rather than sit in judgement and make general assumptions that we have no idea are actually true in any one case. We share the operations of the lock and have our system for doing it depending on going up or down or in a flight or not. It works for us. You are assuming again that when someone says that the wife won't steer that the male stays on the boat all the time. This is not true either I get off the boat and we both operate the lock.

If you see a multiplier or divisor for C, e.g. 10C, 0.5C, C/2, C/10, take it to mean a current, defined relative to the battery capacity. The other bits of associated notation are generally to do with the fact that there is no single value for C for a given battery. Capacity in amp hours can only really be defined for a given discharge profile. So a battery will have one C value if discharged at one rate, and another if discharged at a different rate. This is often denoted as a subscript to the C value, so e.g. C20 would usually mean the capacity the battery has over a 20 hour discharge, or you might even see something like C5A meaning the capacity given a constant 5A load, or what have you. Finally, where the writer cannot or does not know to apply a subscript, sometimes you will see things like C20 to mean the same as the above example. The key thing to bear in mind is that all of these notations describe a current - either a value of C for some conditions, or some multiple of a value of C. If you have a battery that can provide 100Ah over 20 hours, then C20 is a current of 100A. 0.5C20 is a current of 50A. C/2 may also be a current of 50A, if one assumes that an unsubscripted C means a 20-hour capacity. The rest of the discussion in this thread, about "C-ratings" and so on, is about what those currents mean in relation to the battery, which is a separate issue from what the value of the current is. So you may see a battery described as having a max discharge rate of 20C, and a max charge rate of 2C. If its nominal capacity is given as 2Ah, that means the manufacturer is saying it can be discharged at 40A and charged at 4A. Often, particularly for things like lithium polymer packs used for model aircraft, this is all abbreviated to simply sticking "20C" in big letters on the pack with no further explanation. A "C-rating" is just a current rating, that happens to be defined in terms of C.

I can only say what we do. When we don't want the rads on we do everything the same but we have an isolation valve (inline tap). We turn up the stat and set the boiler water temperature to what we want the tap water temp to be. We find if the circulation pump is not running the boiler steams up dramatically. Hope this helps a little. Edit. I was beaten to it. Our isolation valve is right at the back of a kitchen cupboard. I keep meaning to move it, but after over ten years I don't think I'll rush into anything.

Yes there would normally be an isolation valve to isolate the radiator circuit whilst leaving the calorifier circuit working. It would normally be near the boiler, however since each boat is different it is impossible to say. As a short term measure until you find the main valve, you can turn off each radiator individually at the radiator

Yes they were, You can see the same church tower in the centre of both the pictures. Tim

Gareth, I did recognise there was an element of jest but I also read an undertone into it. Only you know if that was there but if you joke along the lines of 'shame they didn't get mown down by a train' (to paraphrase your comment) then you shouldn't be surprised that it won't be universally met with a laugh whether it was entirely in jest or not. I admit to being sensitive to this subject having spent part of my professional life seeing the consequences of such events and being responsible for preventing such. As a result I don't find anything remotely humorous about it. However I do recognise that many are unsympathetic. I doubt they would be so much with some full on exposure to the reality. The crime of trespass is in no way proportionate to such an outcome. Jon

Please! Young children read these forums, and what you have said is horrible!

I can assure you no-one ever needs that scenario. JP

Thanks to you all. Today I have paid into the bank all the cash, cheques & PayPal donations collected in Keith's memory. £600 in total which is a magnificent effort. I am hoping to take a cheque to the Stafford Chemo Unit later this week. C.x

They do not pay road tax because they very rarely use roads that are funded by central government. Mosy household insurance policies cover cyclists. It is you with your anti cyclist rhetoric that prevents things becoming amicable on the roads.

You do realise that all but major roads are built and maintained out of council budgets to which cyclists contribute as much as motorists?

http://www.mapei.com/public/IT/linedocument/mapeflex_fire_stop_1200_gb.pdf looks good to me

Well thats one Chelsea Tractor that has been further off road than the pavement

undiscovered dead rat will stink out your boat. A mouse? Not really, a bit for about a day. My cat brings in mice all the time and usually kills them in the same spot for me to find. One time she didn't kill it and it escaped into the hidden spaces behind my L-shape sofa and kichen cupboards. I had no idea it was there until I needed to get some rarely used baking ingredients from the back of the cupboard and found all the evidence. I then went searching and found more evidence stretching the entire length of my cabin. Ugh! I then waged war on the mouse (remember the film Mousehunt with Lee Evans?). Trapping was my chosen method as I don't want poisons on my boat and definitely don't want my cat finding any poison. This little bugger of a mouse became extremely proficient at extracting titbits from the trap without triggering it. I managed to trigger it many times when handling it, as shown my my increasingly swollen and cut thumb. As my rage built over a number of weeks, I increasingly held the cat to blame and wondered if I could get some kind of cat-trap to extract vengance! I got the little vermin eventually. The mouse, not the cat.

I was purposely not being personal as I don't think it helps. As the same few members post the same types of comment about the same subjects it shouldn't be hard to work it out. The posts usually start with some rose-tinted nonsense about the good old days, when CCs knew their place, and end up with the usual dig about the whole system being rendered unuseable by the actions of people trying to skive a cheap living with no regard for the sanctity of the waterways. The waterways are busier now. More live-aboards, more CCs, more hire boats, more weekenders escaping their home-moorings, more dog walkers, more cyclists, more nice people. Luckily, there are so many people, that if there is a problem, it's somebody else's fault.

I only cross using the wide gate with handrail or via a bridge. I don't care if I'm laughed at I don't want to freeze up halfway across and have to be rescued. I'm fine as long as there is a rail to hang onto but I always use the bridge if there is one

If someone is feeling entrepreneurial, how about selling T-shirts with that Torksey lock sign on.

That's really lovely Ange and in many cases that is so, but in my observations at locks and at our lock in particular many cases are as I describe, I can tell by certain body language, facial expressions, shaking of heads, stubborness, eyes flashing with stifled anger, pursed lips, and seems to be more rife the posher and shinier the boat is. I tend to make a bit of a study of peoples behaviors with boats at locks, I find it quite interesting.

I agree entirely - he comes over as rather a martinet, thrusting a line at her and snapping at her to take it when there is no way she can reach across the gap between boat and bank was a good example. It is also sad that they have been boating for so long but learned so little of the skills involved that would make their life so much easier (hers, anyway). And how he can expect Pru to get off the boat to tie up all the time when she is now rather unsteady on her feet, or demand she looses the lines fore and aft while he sits in regal splendour in his captain's chair and does not even look to check what she is doing. On the other hand they do obviously enjoy what they are doing, and Pru sems to accept it all quite stoically, so who am I to suggest they act in any other way. Tam

And I bet there are still the same boats in Castlefield that there has been for the last few years……..funny how some don't get any hassle! Cheers Gareth

2.5 hours, wow! When I'm moored for any length of time I normally run my generator or engine for at least 5 hours a couple of times per week. I'm sorry but I'm tempted to say, get used to sharing your space with others or get off the waterways. What we don't need is ever stricter rules or codes of conduct to accommodate the delicate sensibilities of people who aren't able to handle other boaters moored near them.