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Still a work in progress but I have now got a usable printed timing tool for the 1500. To make it involved learning how to use CAD software which was an interesting lockdown distraction. It took about 9 hours to print in total, I'm sure the printer settings can be tweaked a bit to reduce that, perhaps that'll be the next lockdown project.

Indeed, no one questions that you are doing it 'right', but not many have your land-based facilities. Who was it, just a couple of days ago, who said they'd put the liquid in the hedge bottom and the part-composted solids in the bin ?

White cock-up juice (aka Tippex) required. N

... Rosé.

A giant swan would have made an excellent CaRT on the water employee. Checking boat licenses, mooring overstaying, anglers permits and slowing down speeding cyclists. Enforcement would come with a broken arm from a single wing blow. Much more effective. If the swan is hissing, your license is missing! Broken arm. What's the reason? You're fishing out of season!

I've never seen a white back cabin range but some did come in vitreous enamelled finishes around the 1940's. There's currently a Belle on Ebay in grey, and in my restoration corner there's a Dover that was originally green and a tiny Bandera No1 in pale grey. The problem is the enamel suffers from corrosion quite easily and is very expensive to have refinished. There's only a couple of places in the country that do it and as the process involves grit blasting and heating to an extremely high temperature there's a good chance of breakages on fragile parts.

It's not a new logo, though, is it? The big information signs at places like Foxton have the logo and the sweeping different blue colours -- and they've just used a bit of the shape rather than the logo on its own. Such as on the vans as above, or this downloadable map:

Well it's a start, just need to work back down GU to Berko

Who is going to know you are running a boat on diesel that has not had the relevant duty paid? Crack on I say

Known as witches knickers I believe. ?

And if you're going to Bristol the Thames isn't your only obstacle. I remember leaving the Thames at Reading and turning into the mouth of the Kennet and I honestly thought that something had happened to my engine when I seemed to lose power. In fact I'd just turned into the much stronger current of a narrower channel that was still in spate after some recent heavy rain. I made it up the Kennet ok but it was hard work and I really had to push it in places. Mainly I was dreading the thought of seeing another boat coming the other way, but fortunately nobody was mad enough to go downstream in those conditions.

Mr Athy tut tut. Only some now like a good tobacco. Shag Tobacco's (thebackyshop.co.uk) When I sailed at Draycote Water Cormorants invaded the reservoir. The fly fishermen there got most upset and had them culled - miserable gits. At least the birds fished to eat.

Round our way the dykes are frozen over.

And now even longer! I think people imagine that wrapping things up in insulation helps to keep them warm. This does of course work for humans and warm blooded animals because they have their own internal heat source and the insulation stops that being lost. But in the case eg of water pipes, insulation doesn’t keep them warm, it just slows down the rate of cooling so you need longer with ambient temperature below freezing before the water freezes.

I mentioned all of these points and more when I responded to the consultation.

Yup, its as easy of that, so once in 11 years we have been reduced to same indignity that cassette owners live with every third day. For 8 years we kept an emergency porta potti under the bed but eventually declared it a waste of space and gave it away. If it gets really bad you could crap in a plastic bag, leave it a couple of hours to "compost" then put it in the rubbish bins. ? ..............Dave

Reading here that boaters are emptying cassettes every few days make me very glad we have a pump out loo which.only needs emptying every six weeks with two of us on board. Sorry Rachael to have butted into your thread. Haggis

I would lay odds the white "smoke" from the exhaust is steam caused by condensation that has been absorbed into the bandage. If that was a cold start its good and it just sounds like typical diesel knock that may well scare someone used to petrol engines but its normal. I did see what looked like a wisp or two of fumes from what may be the dipstick hole (centre of engine and low down on image) but it cleared and did not appear again. I could see nothing to overly concern me about the engine but I can only go by that video. I would certainly take it on the Thames at its summer flow unless things are different when its hot and under load.