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  2. When they have gone carefully remove the nest and put it on E bay as mooring equipment for CMing
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  6. Country file has been a kiddies programme for years, why would this be any different. I will wipe from my memory the WRG work parties and the hours spent campaigning as it must just have been a dream because the BBC told me CRT saved the waterways in 2012. Admittedly I was in France then so missed this wonderful event.
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  10. And on this day in 2021: Peter Scott's 1979 photographs of Sowerby Bridge interspersed with the same views 42 years and one day later. The archway through the warehouse is now occupied by the Moorings pub on the ground floor and Temujin restaurant above, so the nearest I could get to Peter's view was through the pub door. And not featured in Peter's photos, since there was nothing to see there in 1979:
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  11. So taking heat out of the canal water will be better for the environment on CO2 production but with no mention of the impact on the aquatic life. CaRT have been populating the sides of the canal with reeds for many years, no mention on how they will control them or remove them when they block navigation, as they do in quite a few places now. I will not knock CaRT for the sake of it - but I do wonder if they do give a thought to the boats and boater community in their many, rather wild ideas.
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  12. Because it is infinitely better than paying someone like Rupert Murdoch (through advertising) to feed us blatant lies?
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  13. Wow! I never realised how little I knew about the canals. I never knew that the canals fell into disrepair after commercial use dried up, and only the intervention of CRT allowed the canals to be brought back from a state of dereliction, which has all been achieved since 2012. Apparently the efforts of the hundreds of thousands of enthusiasts who actually restored so many canals, such as the K&A, was just a bad dream. I never knew that frogspawn appears in ponds "and the frogs are not far behind". The diver/reporter showed the frogs mating among clouds of frogspawn. I guess I need to revise my understanding of the birds, frogs and bees. Like the disastrous BBC coverage of the Jubilee parade on the Thames, the final programme was clearly ruined by the clever just-out-of-nappies producers who edit and sequence the input to produce an entirely misleading scenario. WHAT A LOAD OF BOLLOX!! High time the BBC was made to be competitive and to finance itself through sponsorship and advertising (but I'll bet that CRT wrote the script about the history of the canals). Why should we pay a licence fee to be presented with a load of propaganda rubbish?
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  16. I like boating in Birmingham and I have fond memories of sitting on the roof of the boat listening to a James Last concert in the "arena". The tickets were all sold but we enjoyed it more sitting on the boat with glass in hand than we might have dome if we had been inside. haggis
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  24. For some reason I had the idea that you worked and lived a rock and roll lifestyle with all the things associated with that, I'm afraid James Last just doesn't fit with my image of that. I think I am slightly disappointed
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  25. Even the bit about HVO started by saying narrowboats using normal diesel emit particulates and NOx and then said HVO was much better because it is carbon neutral so less CO2 in the atmosphere no mention of whether its better for particulates and NOx
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  31. "What Bad Luck" Surely not? Merely a mild irritation, after all it could have been much, much worse. It could have been my back fender!
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  33. I suppose it all depends on whether you consider yourself a continuous cruiser moorer or not. If you do and you are mooring in the best place to run your life, you should get a statement from WWF to declare you compulsorily static for at least 12 months. ............................ damn! now I've said that loads of folk will be seeking out nests to transfer to their back button.
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  35. I wouldn't recommend this. Wildlife and countryside act says it is an offence to: Intentionally take, damage or destroy the nest of any wild bird while it is in use or being built. Once the bird has started the nest is being built.
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  39. Beware the following post includes praise for CaRT Licensing I renew my license through the boat club who receive a nice commission which helps the Club bank account. I renewed last Sept so the Club received their usual. Last week I upgraded to a Gold license (planning a trip to the Fens) so the Club received another even bigger commission. My CaRT license was automatically cancelled and I was refunded back to January 1st. How good is that?
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  45. I also used longer life red in both heating and engine systems (Alde 2000 series and Bukh). Water will carry more heat around the system but if it carries more heat than the car radiator, your skin tank, or the heating system can get rid of then it won't make any difference. This assumes you understand the difference between heat capacity and temperature. However, engines and gas/oil central heating systems are controlled by thermostats so they have a material effect on system performance, all these things probably have more effect than the antifreeze. If you don't know the history of the system I would use a cooling system cleaner as per the instructions on the can and when that is drained out flush it a couple of times with fresh water only. That is fill with water, run until hot circulating for several minutes and drain again. That is what I do when I changed my antifreeze. Perhaps you don't remember but at one time we drained and flushes car cooling systems in the spring, ran on water through the summer and then refilled with antifreeze for the winter. In those days summer coolant was important to minimise internal corrosion, especially on engines with aluminium in contact with the coolant. Nowadays with long life antifreeze the antifreeze does the corrosion protection all the year round as long as people do not keep it in use well beyond its service life.
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