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I know a lot of people are struggling financially at the moment, but I hadn't realised just how bad it is getting. Today I have seen at least 12 family groups of 6 or 8 people who must have moved into 23-28 foot cabin cruisers since yesterday. There were none of them out and about on Thursday when it was raining, but on a sunny weekend it seems 3 or 4 generations have just become liveaboards ... Hmm.

You've never tried eating one? They need to be boiled for several hours before they are soft enough to chew. If you cook them with enough garlic you can get them to taste of garlic, rather than hose pipe. A bit like the recipes the French use for snails and a similar texture.

It's called getting old ? when we moved aboard in our 30s we would hop off onto the bank etc etc, now we'll into our 60s there is no hopping as the knees simply don't allow for it lol.

Still bored so made another one, wall hanging piece this time

With no dry-dock for many miles, the slip at Auxerre proved useful once in fixing a cooling system leak. We hauled Secunda up as much as we dared. The slip itself was installed by the German occupation forces in 1943, when a fleet of armed vessels was brought up the Yonne, They were then hauled out here to be taken across Burgundy by road - the Canal de Bourgogne being insuffiently large for the job. To achieve this 1,500 forced labourers demolished houses along the way and regraded the roads. Special trailers were used, with three tractor lories pulling, and four more behind, primarily for braking on the hills. Those taking these pictures risked their lives, yet none of the craft ever made it. The entire fleet, said to be over 50 craft, was destroyed by Allied aircraft farther south.

People say if you work it out as 10 volts DC it allows for the inefficiencies so 1000 Watts is 100 Amps

Will it help or confuse you more ?

I have this fitted between my hydraulic motor and the prop shaft on my boat 1998, If I remember rightly its a taper lock,

That would worry me there are 5 people living in our postcode

Just to keep you amused until some comes along with a sensible answer : Im the girl that makes the thing that drills the hole that holds theRing that drives the rod that turnsThe knob that works the thingy a me-bob Im the girl that makes the thing that holds the oil that oils theRing that takes the shank that movesThe crank that works the thingy a me bob.It a ticklish sort of job making thing for the Thingy a me bob especially when you don't know what it for.But its the girl that makes the thing the drills the hole thatHolds the ring that makes the thingyA me bob that makes the engine roar. And it the girl that makes the thing that holds the oil thatOils the ring that makes the thingy a me bob thats gonna win the war.Im not what you'd would call an heroin at allI don't suppose you'd even know me name But though i never boost of my important postIll strike a blow for freedom just the same.That works the thingy a me bob.That works the thingy a me bob. It a ticklish kind of job making the thing for theThingy s me bob especially when you don't know what its forBut its the girl that makes the thing that drills the hole that holdsThe ring that makes the thingy a me bob at makes the engines roar an Its the girl that makes the thing that holds the oil that oilsThe ring that makes the thingy a me bob thats gonna win the warIt is n all

And that is what is so very wonderful about having a means of transport with your own private facilities! When I was first recovering we bought a secondhand motorhome off eBay so we could travel all over Europe with our (now grown-up) kids. It was just amazing and took away all the fear of being caught out away from a loo. I don't think there would be much of an advantage between the different types in my personal case; it's rather that I'm very used to emptying a cassette loo and haven't used a pump-out before. There is something cowardly comforting about familiar systems and I am determined to be able to manage and maintain as much as I can on the boat myself. Saying that I don't doubt that I would quickly master the pump-out system. Can't quite get my head around composting loos ATM but again that is probably down to my inexperience and ignorance.

I would have thought a food grade hose was the type used to fill a gravy boat

Statistically, i think we are individually quite safe. Yesterday in East Cheshire there were four new infections recorded, and it's pretty unlikely I'm going to run into one of them. Especially on a boat.

Not an option 10 years later (2019)!

I remember my mother telling me about the well at her parent's home, (this would have been well before WWII), water drawn from the well would come up as clear as crystal but within the hour it turned, as she put it, "as gold as a guinea and stunk to high heaven", within 24 hours however it was odourless and clear again. The local blacksmith was a regular caller and would come with a couple of flagons once a week to draw some of the water to take home, he and his wife regarded it as an elixir. It would seem that it had a certain laxative effect as while the family were unaffected the mothers of certain school friends did complain about the effect whereupon my grandmother explained that "it must have been the cucumber sandwiches". They all lived well into old age, "you gotta eat a peck 'o dirt afore you die." But then old superstitions die hard, the last of the Essex cunning men lived not five miles away.

Agreed and if they ever get round to knocking the duty allowance off I shall install another tank somewhere, take heating oil from home. At the moment my day tank is actually a 6 day tank that automatically fills when the engine runs

My favourite

Is he having a Caribbean party on Callisto then?