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Similar with us. Yes I do wash the dishes.

Nah, we just chuck the plates away when they are dirty haggis

Mrsmelly, you've got some heavy PC brigade members on your Port Beam, repel borders. i have absolutely no issues with your humour, well I think it is, I read a couple of posts to my better half, once she had finished cooking,cleaning and washing up, she laughed so much that there was a delay in her getting dogs out on their walk.

Just had some work done by W+T, needed a galley upgrade and a step/storage thingy making to make access easier for the wife, still work in progress but a couple of pics of how things are progressing Will update when its all finished but gives you an idea of the kind of work he does

Or methane gas. Think of all the sewage going to waste. 1 full Porta-Pottie cassette would propel a car along for a considerable distance, depending on the users diet. A Porta-Pottie could even be used as the drivers seat to do its converting whilst going along. This could give the car an unlimited mileage, perhaps just stopping occasionally to top up at drive through burger and pizza huts. It wouldn't be MPG anymore, but MPT instead. There would be a big run on in car air fresheners and toilet rolls. There would be a sudden healthy rise in vegetarians too, as fruit and veg would generates more methane. Eggs would be avoided at all cost for fear of constipatiion which would severely shorten the cars duration and even bring it to a standstill in the piddle of nowhere.

Folk will have to have there own big diesel generator to charge them up. Power stations won't cope.

Brexit init

can’t be Summer yet, AFAIK that Cwis Packham hasn't been on the telly poking animal faeces with the once-lovely Michaela Strachan. Or did i totally miss it this year?

Tried it at Easter. Only held for 3 days.

I suspect those you go on and on about springs and mooring properly are occasional leisure boaters who always use rings at visitor moorings. Mooring on the bank in the rough is very different. We have huge pins but even these can and do pull out on a soft bank. A related issue is that inconsiderate speeding boats force us to use bigger and bigger pins which do even more damage to the canal bank. .................Dave

At least it wasn’t brioche. Which is cake and french mand minging. The fashion for brioche buns and burgers is appalling, burger and cake????

Thanks for Posting Rusty , my Grandfather met my Grandmother in Norfolk during WW2 and I spend a lot of time out there , mostly at Wells drinking Pints of Wherry

The pound is a bit low.

You start dying the day you are born. The only way to stay healthy is to not eat, don't drink and not breath, you will die but at least you will be healthy.

There is a general dislike if steele boats across the Broads and as mooring is limited it can be difficult. You will see very few steele boats on the Broads but you will see a lot on in the Great Ouse navigations, which are probably better suited and are of course connected to rest of the waterways.

It's all a bit academic anyway, i.c. vehicles have had their day.

Shh! This is exactly how I source my spare windlasses!

Hi, I'm stuck at a lock. My Iphone is working properly but I can't find the app that operates the paddles. Do you have to use a particular website?

I see the non consideration lot are out and about on the cut again, and I don't mean hire boaters, just those that don't know how to moor their boats properly.

After all that has been said, to be perfectly honest, most boaters, share fair and square, all that has to be done. Locks, Margaret won't steer the boat if there's people within half a mile of us, she prefers working the locks than steering, for myself, I occasionally insist that I work a lock or two. Margaret is more than capable and proficient at boat handling but prefers not to. It's a matter of choice and preference. I do, if the occasion arises, leap off, (understatement) the boat and close gates and paddles. Margaret, after 44 years of marriage, is very much aware of my sense of humour, and indeed doeson occasion show her humorous side. Not restricted to, but it helps, being ex-service creates a certain twist to PC situations. Everyone to their own. It's all good fun 'innit'.

Point the eco fan at the dishes, will dry in no time

Quiet right. Try sitting in a lock on a windless day having just put a load of Supertherm on the fire.......and then there is all the beer. We are all doomed.

What is all this nonsense about women being unwilling /unable to steer boats into locks? Jan nearly always steered our boat into locks, whilst I did the lock wheeling, and to be honest she was a lot better than many men who were prepared to let their wives struggle with heavy gates, whilst they were engaged in the "more important role" of stopping the boat from hitting them. She always preferred to go into double locks second after the first boat had been secured, as that ensured that there was no violent hull bashing which many men seemed unable to avoid. What was more annoying was the condescending "Well done" which she often got when performing the task without collision, as if it was something a woman was not expected to be able to do. Although more women are now taking on the steering role, there still is an unfortunate sexist atttude amongst many men that steering is a "man's job" which women are unable to perform, or even allowed learn how to do.

Phil you and I know how strong these boats are, and narrowboats would have long sunk if they were treated like broads boats are

I think that DPFs remove the large particles but leave the small ones in the exhaust stream meaning there are fewer particles from an exhaust fitted with a DPF but those that are there are the more damaging ones. I am sure older diesels ran with lower combustion temperatures that will would create less NOX production. I* suspect the lower speds also encouraged the formataion of larger soot particles.

Ooh now, where’s GrahamM when you need him so we can have an argument about his favourite subject.

mmmmmmmmm well stay on the boat dont get on the roof but tell the missus to run to the next lock to set it up then you still get to the pub quickly but the crew still do all the work

No he wasn't. No he wasn't.

There is a subtle but noticeable difference (perhaps too subtle for you) between typing what your wife prefers to do and suggesting that it is what all women should do. Incidentally it is quite clear to me you are trolling

Anti siphon valve. someone else had the same problem posted on here of Facebook. you can get new ones from Lee Sanitation

Strewth, Rachel, you can get that in your mouth? Or is the pic before it's been crushed down?

In our case, we get bored with endless lines of moored boats.

The kind expression is "... it needs putting out of our misery"

Is there a petition we can sign to agree with the proposal..

No, lots of other folk aren't either, but I really don't really get why that means you need to pee in other people's cornflakes. The Royal Family isn't exactly reducing your net worth by anything so why not live and let live? Socialism doesn't have to mean "equal misery for all" you know.