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Which direction. I will throw some back!! Ok, done that. I can see a line SINR Guess that is it. . . . . For a value it says N/A. .......bloody inferior tat! On the bright side, the EE signal has now gone to -67dB and is now streaming ok. The 3 sim is still on a go slow.

Nah, that doesn't make sense ...

Bloody spell checker but nothing like a bit of depravity to get you warm on winter mornings.

I am not sure, I think he is called Jeeves but I just ring a bell and there he is.??

Frankly, don't ask in the first place. Just start living there. If you keep your head down sufficiently no-one will notice or care. If you get rumbled and challenged, you'll know you weren't flying below the radar enough.

Went up the newly 'open' two miles of the Pocklington Canal this morning. Andy, a chap on a boat in Melbourne Basin, had sold me a Head of Navigation plaque - I'm not a plaque person, but having got it I thought I should go, despite him informing me that the pub in Bielby had closed. Two locks, a swing bridge and lots of reeds. Walbut lock and the swing bridge have no landing stages. Best moor under the bridge when going up the lock (not like I did - see pic) - there's a bench to tie to. The swing bridge is difficult singlehanded, but possible (obviously). Rather bleak at the end, and no easy access to the village, as the Bielby Arm is not yet navigable (last pic), so I didn't stay (no pub). Two hours each way for the two miles.

It was a hard, dirty and sometimes dangerous weekend of fun, but I have got my new silencer and exhaust system fitted. I'm not quite done, need to strap down things a bit better, lag the exhaust pipe, and clean up the tailpipe somehow - thinking of getting some 2mm thick steel, cutting a square with a hole for the exhaust, then bolting it over the whole lot). As promised here are some pics of the job. First I cut out the old system. Then ground out the rust - turns out I didn't need to clean it, because taking the rust out removed the soot with it! Next I cut a larger hole for the silencer, with great difficulty. Fit a new exhaust flange and gasket, then screwed everything together with plenty of copaslip and a stilson wrench! I achieved my goal of a hot shower at the end of a very dirty weekend, so although I definitely still have work to do here, I can at least run the engine. I'm really pleased with the result, it's not quite as quiet as I'd hoped but if you're a boat away from me you wouldn't know that the engine is on. The exhaust itself is almost completely silent, the noise is coming from the engine itself. I plan to fit some soundproofing which will hopefully deal with that. Thanks for all the support!

That's the one, silly me, Himalayan. Is Indian Balsam an ointment? More likely dementia has crept... There is a small wood behind my house, I don't want it creeping into the little common land meadow between me and the wood. It would take over the bit near my fence where gorilla gardeners have planted veg beds, fruit bushes and trees. The council deal with the knotweed but not the Balsam, its easy to cut down, I've left it a bit late but never mid, there'll still be fewer plants next year.

I don't think the OP is prevaricating at all. In fact he is being painfully honest.

My very old (70's) Nicholsons Guide shows : Max beam as 9' / 7' / 6'10 1/2" as you progress along the canal.

Old fashioned steam radio definitely superior to DAB. Uses a lot less power too. My cheapo FM receiver will run for weeks on a set of rechargable AA's, for several hours a day. As @MoominPapa says, when reception is poor it degrades in a graceful way, rather than just stop working completely. Jen

USB ports have DC-DC converters which can generate radio interference, similarly some kinds of LED and fluorescent lamps. DC motors have brushes/commutators which spark and generate radio interference. You'd have to be particularly unlucky that all three things generate enough RF at the right frequency to knacker your DAB radio, but it's at least a possibility. The "cliff edge" nature of digital radio doesn't help. It doesn't degrade gracefully, in a fringe reception area it works, or it doesn't. MP.

This 100% and seem similar, despite quiet chats suggesting to keep head down gob shut the behaviour continued. Don't get me wrong if someone is abusing their position sometimes making a stand is required, but most time live and let live

Yes, I've met unofficial liveaboards who insist on getting mail sent to the moorings and using the marina address as their residential address, and then they wonder why they have problems or end up getting kicked off.

Cable losses would far outweigh any gain achieved by locating the antennas for and aft.

I would advocate for a mushroom vent with integral fan immediately above the cooker. Every bit of moisture extracted from the boat is a bit of moisture that is not going to condense somewhere else and cause damage. Same above the shower, get as much moisture overboard as quickly as possible.

It's an odd title, and I dare say won't attract many responses, but I thought I'd share what I've been up to this past three weeks. My wife works in a bakery shop, and off her own back has for several years made up window displays for the seasons and a few public holidays. For this Summer, she asked me to build a narrow boat for her (sorry about this!) Rosie & Jim dolls. They are quite large, and have voice recordings with a variety of sayings and giggleings. Nuff said. The following shows the model I have constructed using scrap cardboard and a few pieces of plywood, held together with glue from a hot glue gun and gummed brown paper strip. I based it on a Thomas Clayton tanker boat as depicted on the cover of Tony Lewery's 'Narrow Boat Painting' GIFFORD, but it's not accurate as you will see. Nonetheless, comments welcome. I guess it will burn well once I've tired of trying to find somewhere to put it. It's in the shop window in Wenlock right now. Probably be there until Halloween. The rudder is out of proportion - the blade should be much higher, and the back end looks more like a GU butty, but it's hung in the traditional way using a Schrader valve collar; piece of welding wire, and an old metal tent peg. No chimney brass for Rosie & Jim, spent too much on cakes. Plates and crochet fitted. Scumbling cardboard is not to be recomended, especially with 40yr old scumble paint. More theatre than accuracy. The range shows a flickerin fire through the 'bars' courtesy of two electronic 'tea' candles though switched off in this shot. The lamp is made from a straw; piece of rubber fuel line; a shortened nail (wick adjuster); a plastic bottle top for the shade, all squeezed into a plated casting that was a tea pot, with the spout and handle cut off. Regretably it does not light up. Catherine's Bakery, 20 Barrow Street, Much Wenlock.