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  1. You sir, have no idea what you are talking about and are giving out incorrect information based upon nothing more than your own opinion. I bid you good day and leave you to your grisly end........
    4 points
  2. Oh, come off it! Moving to another area and changing your children's school happens frequently to families for all sorts of reasons. If this was the only competent school in the country I'm sure it would have made headlines by now! Many people who work in Bath cannot afford to live there but Bath is a stone's throw from Bristol where accommodation to suit all levels of income is available. If living on a boat is not compatible with family needs then, unfortunately that has to be faced by the family. It is a fact of life that we can't all have what we want, we have to make choices, society does not and should not be made to fit in with every individuals whims and fancies. edited to make sense!
    3 points
  3. I think a healthier approach and better boating philosophy would be "I am going to use my boat bona fide for navigation and not worry about CaRT" rather than "I am going to gather evidence ready for my confrontation and legal battle with CaRT". This forum is becoming a little dominated by those who have had battles with CaRT, but this is not representative of the real world. There is a lot of canal in Birmingham and so unless you choose to set up home in the Gas Street area you should be fine. ................Dave
    2 points
  4. What a fatuous criticism! It is, on the contrary, an entirely apt comparison.
    2 points
  5. Maybe that's because they are restoring it.
    2 points
  6. Bear in mind that there's always the 'halfway house' option of CCing from spring to autumn, and taking a mooring over winter. CRT make some of their visitor moorings available for this purpose from November to March. It's a lot cheaper than paying for a year-round home mooring, but saves you having to worry about moving when the weather's at its worst and there might be stoppages making it hard to get around.
    1 point
  7. I've seen a few on the Thames. Also available in bight yellow.
    1 point
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  9. This isn't quite the same as competent journalism so I don't see that any apologies are required. Correct me if my understanding of what happened is mistaken but it seems to me that whilst leaving the Southville Centre on 4th February (taken rather a long time to feel insulted by it ) Yaz Brien claims to have overheard Symonds making the alleged comments. He in turn has then passed on these comments to an unidentified third party who has then constructed the article on the 'strength' of them. Following denials in the Twittersphere Brien has then emerged to claim that he was the one who overheard the comments but has no idea who published the story but is 'disappointed' with Symonds. If it were an example of competent journalism the 'unidentified third party' who published the article should have been the one to confront Symonds about it before publishing and then reported both the allegation and Symonds response (or lack of). Given that the alleged incident is now three months old the publisher could even have thought about getting some corroboration to the allegation of Brien, I'm sure that he could remember one or two other people at the event. Why he/she hasn't done that only they will know. It seems to me that the whole purpose of the exercise was to generate a Twitterstorm, an intent that seems to have been largely successful.
    1 point
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  11. "It is time for CRT to enter into a transparent and constructive dialogue with the continuous cruising users of the waterways, and to cease prohibitive, unclear and constantly changing measures for how continuous cruisers can maintain their licenses and their homes. These positions have been much more eloquently presented to you by boat dwellers themselves, and they must be addressed by CRT." S'funny - thought he was writing to complain about the language someone used in conversation. Anyone would think that the writer had another agenda altogether...
    1 point
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  13. Yes its strange how people these days aeem to think having children is an automatic passport to favourable or special treatment. I get calls from people with broken boilers suggesting I should give them priority over my other customers because they "have young children". Well no, I give priority to people who are ill or elderly. Young children are actually amongst the most hardy of the humans out there and can wait...!
    1 point
  14. Finally got round to listening to this on iplayer. I really do feel for the boater with kids in school in B-o-A. She's set up a lifestyle which was 'unlawful' under the 1995 act but was previously tolerated. It's now no longer tolerated and she's stuck. She either jeopardizes her childrens' education or she gives up her home. It's not a choice I'd like to face. No wonder she's unhappy. I was annoyed by her repeatedly pointing her finger at the new 'new guidlines'. What new guidelines are these? Perhaps the ones we have which are softer than the old ones in that they no longer require covering a significant part of the network. On the other hand, Mr Symmonds is just trying to apply the rules fairly. I imagine what he'd like to say is that if you're moving in a pattern in order to get your kids to school, then by definition, you're not bona fide navigating. Asking how far is enough is irrelevant. As I said on another thread, communities of families with kids on boat who are cc'ing are a real rarity around the country. The K&A is an exception but is being treated as typical.
    1 point
  15. Cleaning brass is more effective than any rain dance.
    1 point
  16. Advice here is dont do it. I had 60x12 barge based near Berko ended up never cruising the canal just dashing to Brentford to get on the Thames. We Sold it and bought a narrowboat.......
    1 point
  17. For portability, what about a Fliptail? http://www.woodenwidget.com/fliptail.htm
    1 point
  18. Not quite the same - if you buy the land you own it, with adverse possession you 'steal' if from the owner for 15 years and if they don't 'squeal' than you clam it as yours without paying for it. Your 'mate' just tried to get around the planning regs. There was a similar case recently where a guy built a 'huge' house, then built a hay-stack around it to hide it, - long story short - he will now be spending time in jail unless he demolishes it http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11984323/Farmer-who-hid-castle-behind-hay-bales-says-he-cant-knock-it-down-as-bats-have-moved-in.html There are not only 'piss-takers' on the canals.
    1 point
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  20. this is getting almost as good as the discussions about continuous mooring cruising.
    1 point
  21. So this is someone who darent challenge the comments at the time but prefers to leak smear stories to the press?
    1 point
  22. I have a Viking 23 - I have no experience of the Atlanta 24 but I would suggest you shouldn't choose on the basis of Atlanta V Viking, look at the detail and see if there is anything amiss on one and not on the other I will give you one specific example. My viking failed it's safety certificate because the gas pipe from the locker to the cooker was embedded in the fibreglass - this was a feature when it left the factory in 1986, it took 30 years for it to fail the BSC, but I now have to fit a new gas system (not difficult, but still a nuisance) If one of the boats has something like this and the other one hasn't, go with the one that hasn't, it'll save you a lot of grief
    1 point
  23. Everyone here might know, but how many radio 2 listeners do, they were all sat at home thinking that "this bloke wants them to move a certain distance but wont tell them what the distance is, how is that fair. its like the police saying they will throw you in prison for speeding but then not tell you what the definition of speeding is" they will not know about acts and stuff.
    1 point
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  25. To me it makes a huge difference. Context matters. Be careful what you wish for. If it turns out to be true then Mr Symmonds will be a normal guy who likes a drink with his mates. I'd take that over a corporate robot who never deviates from the script.
    1 point
  26. Not entirely sure what point you are trying to make here, you seem content with lazy journalism. It is not up to Symonds to prove his innocence of some remark he may or may not have made, the onus is on KANDA to either properly report the matter or not report it at all. An acceptable approach would be to get what evidence that they may have and e-mail Symonds with the allegation, they can then either report the allegation and his response or report the allegation and report that he declined to respond. They have done neither, all they have done is print what my old mother used to call 'tittle-tattle' as though it were 'news', it isn't. If they wish to be taken seriously in a journalistic sense they have to do the job properly what they have done is below amateur .
    1 point
  27. I'd wager that 90% of people who work in a public/customer facing job have, at some point, had a moan about those customers to friends, in a jokey way. I know I have. It doesn't mean anything. I take calls from the public in my job and could easily find myself joking with a colleague, something along the lines of "my job would be a whole lot easier if I didn't get all these daft calls from the great unwashed". It's said in jest and means nothing. Of course a spiteful journalist could twist that anyway they wanted if they were spying on me in the pub. Dave - proud git and member of the great unwashed.
    1 point
  28. Indeed I do - its come along way since I coded version 1.0 back in the early 1980s Don't forget that if data is missing then you can add it. There's long term plans to introduce "Pinch Points" but like enhanced POI (which I'm currently working on) its something that will need good data to make it work
    1 point
  29. Not for tying your runner beans to its not.
    1 point
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