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If the inside was painted white then it was probably a liveaboard cruising in London. Jen, ?

The french do have automatic locks. if it all goes wrong and your boat sinks a little icon comes up of a french person shrugging his shoulders.

Not going to wholly disagree but feel there should be some defence. Tried a few when in dry dock there a couple of years ago and they are what they are. Social centres in an economically depressed northern town, along with their characters and chicanery. I went in The Star more than the others and remember a group of OAPs on the lash from Eccles using their tram passes for a good booze up. Apparently a regular thing as they were all well known in there. Cheap beer, no hassles, couldn't argue. As for The New Crown in Newton Heath, again the same. Let's face it, none of the pubs near the Rochdale approaching Manchester or the Ashton out are going to be an idyllic tourist destination but I wouldn't be wary of having a pint in one.

I like the idea of a paint roller handle as a puller - why not take it one step further. Look out for a radiator roller handle. It takes a narrower roller but the shaft is about 3 or 4 times longer than a standard roller so will give you a greater reach.

Well while you have all been talking about the dreaded dentist i have been busy ( jaw and gum still sore after weeks though ) Hope you are better now and no trouble Hi all, hope you all enjoying your boating, me, well still faffing about here I was a little peeed off a few week back as i tried a new supplier for some pattern material and fittings which took six days to get here and still waitng for a few parts to arrive after paying over the norm for delivery. I will not be using Snuggtopz again as they are complete useless and unprofessional.So in the mean time i have got on with the internal vanishing and lining out. I used a hi temp spray adhesive as we dont want it falling off or coming loose on the real hot summer we get a lot of in the UK......a little sarcy there lol.I did mess up a little on the varnishing as the front panel where the sockets are i ended up with a few runs. I used a foam roller and flatted out with foam brush. I think i was just rushing, No big deal a quick sand otu of the runs and another quick coat will do the job. All the rest is good Looking better now. All was varnished with Len Tonkinois. Solid wood three coats and veneered was two coats. image: https://i.postimg.cc/qM4qTC1T/20190309-152058.jpg image: https://i.postimg.cc/gksJkk76/20190309-152055.jpg Used this adhesive image: https://i.postimg.cc/7hYLSFGL/20190310-145538.jpg image: https://i.postimg.cc/vTqZh0ft/20190310-145517.jpg image: https://i.postimg.cc/7ZTZ1M6S/20190310-172441.jpg image: https://i.postimg.cc/0N0xZtqK/20190310-172517.jpg image: https://i.postimg.cc/xCjQZK0x/20190310-172545.jpg image: https://i.postimg.cc/NjTQ2sJ4/20190310-172956.jpg Next up is to finish the hatch surround and then i can line the front panel and under the front deck. Still more to varnish on the cupboard door frame sas they are solid Sapele so need three coats at least. I just want a good few days to crack on with this canopy. I got Fibretex pattern material as the sheet i was using was either to tin and stretched or to thick. Captain Faffer :):)

My vote goes to The Black Country Living Museum, chips cooked in beef dripping. Hmmmmm

There's Debdale marina as well once through Foxton.

If you go to a marina You might get it at crick never been in that hole in the ground, or even north kilworth. I had assumed you would need a motor factor! Unfortunatly tony matts at foxton was displaced by that new pub.

That was one of the few times in my life I have considered vandalism as a solution, the last two times I've been through it hasn't been working.

A chap I knew used to work for the local bus company and he, er, acquired a bolt of that hard-wearing, fuzzy, jazzy upholstery material that they use. His cruiser looked very smart inside with stripey grey fabric glued to all the sides Photos or it never happened

When I lived on the Wirral and worked in Liverpool , Specsavers managed to put the prism in upside down. I was never sure which of my two cars I should drive into which of the four tunnel entrances.

Poor argument though, just because everyone, including myself, does that bad thing I might as well do this different bad thing, just because I can.

Then I stick the handle down the gap and rake it out. Most times its just the grass grown over the piling.

Nope, won't get a room with him, last time he didn't pay his half. And he brought a lass back and made a lot of noise. Yorkshire git!

Ohhhh nooooo. Just about my fave pub. Why oh why ruin a good pub with a poxty tv, sure way to kill it stone dead. A few sensible drinkers watching the six nations very occasionaly doesnt ever warrant a tv. I went into a fab country pub in a massive tourist place that I used to run 25 years ago and found they had put a telly in it. It wasnt switched on but that pub is never ever going to be a tv pub, it just shows the management cannot diferentiate pub types and just banged a tv in for good ( or bad ) measure.

You can buy re-coning kits for speakers.

You must be pleased with the results. It is looking top notch. ETA: No pain from the tooth anymore and the hole in the gum has all but healed over. Fingers crossed yours heals soon. Have you got dry socket for it still to be hurting after so long?

Fantastic progress Wayne You might actually get this boat finished in the next 12 months

Or if they do, they're ever so sorry about it.

View Street Fish N Chips, Collie, Westernn Australia. Red Emperor & chips, bit of a trek for most of you but well worth it!????

Grandma Pollards in Walsden, on the Rochdale Canal, does Fish and Chips in Lard.

Hmm, I've warmed up food on the exhaust manifold of my old Allegro (See, it was good for something) but I'm not warming stuff up on MY manifold. So there.

No doubt some of it will be!

Wrenbury

Fire and theft? Waste of money - who's going to steal your boat if it's on fire?

I tend to 'worry' more (maybe apprehensive would be a better word) on the Trent than I do on a 3000 mile trip on the Lumpy Stuff. The dangers are everywhere and 'so close' - if an engine fails at sea you can have 100s of miles to drift whilst fixing it - on the Trent you may have a 100 metres before you are over a weir and capsized. Our Rivers are not treated with the respect they deserve, and boats & crews are not always suitably prepared.

The primary "law" is that everbody should behave in a sensible way, observing the needs of others. The primary enforcement of that law is the conscience of each of us and peer pressure. The legal law is secondary and is there to advise what is sensible behaviour. The police and judiciary are there to encourage adherence to the primary law with the guidance of the legal law, but they cannot hope to enforce that behaviour without the support of the conscience of each of us and peer pressure. The entire system depends on most of us behaving sensibly without coercion. (Otherwise you would need a police state.) Thus the "spirit of the law" does exist and is fundamental. The legal law is couched in English which is very imprecise in what is meant for any particular set of words, and is additionally built by a poor quality system whose principle good feature is that it is allegedly democratic rather than precise. The legislation relating to canals appears to be particularly imprecise and incomplete, so the question is, do we observe the legal law which is very imperfect or the spirit of the law which is not defined? The traditional British way is to observe the imperfect legal way until the exploitation of the loopholes has caused major and inevitable problems which can't be corrected because of the massive investment in the mess. Those of us with an immediate survival problem will be happy with this but those of us free to consider the long term will not as it means that we are no more capable of managing our affairs sensibly than stone-age societies.

I suggest you ignore the negative posts and concentrate on the positive ones. There's no rule, written or otherwise, that prevents people who are working from cruising without a home mooring.

At yelvertoft we have the delight of the wind turbine in the marina that you can watch turning faster and faster the closer you get to the marina when returning... best thing is just to tie up outside and wait till 4-6pm and at some point then the wind usually dies... that Plan of course doesn’t work when your mother is insisting it isn’t windy and she wants to be back in now (mother knows best after all)! And then you end up blown side onto the pontoons and she tells you not to be so careless and that it’s lucky you didn’t damage someone else’s boat... ( by this point your having a mental breakdown because you didn’t want to come in anyway)! lmao ?