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Me neither. Maybe it’s used on dating sites when you say you had have a big “d..k” in case the lass you meet wants a peek

Must admit I have never seen /s before but then again, I haven't felt all that deprived by not knowing what it means. How did we all manage before we had someone so knowledgable to teach us 🙂

I suggest you get a quote from Kinver Canopies too.

Must admit I've never met /s before, and I've been on message boards and forums since they were invented, so for once I sympathise with Alan! Such a rare occurrence I thought I'd mention it.

You could explain to him all about PM2.5 particles at the same time!

Me too, and lest anyone get gloomy over how illness might affect canal exploration, here's a pic of me on the towpath of the long disused Horncastle Canal - and that thing running to my nose is portable oxygen... I'm not going to let a little thing like chronic illness get in the way! (For those wondering - i stay in hotels with creature comforts)

PM sent.

And I find it curious how after 100 years of this, they continue making the gate seals the same way presumably because they've "always done it that way". It really can't be that difficult to devise a solution.

Joe is a pretty knowledgeable chap, met him at Devizes marina and he helped me with a few queries. Nice bloke, always up for a chat if you meet him 🙂

Yep, totally agree. After writing a few sites with HTML I discovered AOLPress which was BRILLIANT, and basically ripped off by Microsoft when they launched FrontPAGE 98 (which was actually tonnes better). I upgraded to FP2000 when it first came out and used that until about 2013 when a Microsoft 'security' upgrade irreparably busted it. This was the last straw for me after a series of M$ upgrades breaking stuff and I switched to the Mac ecosystem and never looked back. Anyway back to the subject. I HATE wordpress with a passion mainly because every time I try to use it, it is completely different! Such is the pace of development that if you use it every day that is perhaps fine, but as a 'once every six months' user, I find it, well, unusable. And so was that horrible replacement M$ launched for FP2K. And as for Dreamweaver....

I suspect it's, as you suggest, a thing used in the geek boards that know html. No non-professional in the last twenty years has bothered with that to write websites, since the invention of FrontPage in the dark ages. Everybody else used bits of punctuation for smileys or frowns. The program I still use to maintain my sites is so obsolete I've had to start whacking in bits of code to make it function, but everyone else I know just uses Wordpress and wouldn't know anything about html, or, probably, that such a thing exists.

I think (I'm pretty sure) that the requirements were changed in 2020, an the land owner must be the boat owner was removed. SINGLE LONG TERM MOORING AGAINST PRIVATE RESIDENTIAL LAND The Canal & River Trust is the owner of the canal bed and permission is needed for the exclusive right to occupy water space as a home mooring.1. Permission will only be granted in specific circumstances: 1. The mooring is for a single boat against a residential property on the offside of the navigation, AND 2. No environmental, operational or safety risks apply – this is subject to our local assessment. All new end of garden moorings must, as a general rule, not be in close proximity to any canal structure, including locks and bridges. Where permission is granted, it is subject to the appended terms and conditions Note in particular: 1. We do not guarantee water depth at the proposed mooring, and any permission we grant will not include Canal & River Trust responsibility for dredging or clearance of water obstructions. 2. Any boat placed at the mooring must fit within the boundaries of the property and not overlap onto neighbouring land. 3. Any mooring platform or landing stage to be developed will require planning consent from the local planning authority as well as written consent from the Trust. 4. A mooring for a boat used as someone’s sole or primary residence may require planning consent 5) Evidence of your ownership of the land against which you propose to moor the boat: the Land Registry Title Number and a complete photocopy of the relevant section of the property title deed. 6) If you are not the person named in the evidence supplied under 5) above, a letter(s) from the landowner(s) confirming their permission for you to moor at the site for the duration of the mooring permit, should your application be successful. Please note that this confirmation will be required annually at the time of your mooring permit renewal.

The first thing I did on my last three boats was to install two, filter/water separators, plumbed in parallel with each other, straight after the fuel tank. Each filter has a fuel cock at its inlet and outlet, so either can be used independently of the other, and a blocked one can be isolated for easy and swift changing of the element without the need to even stop the engine. Very useful if you are crossing The Wash or doing the tidal Severn trip and the engine falters and stops through fuel starvation.

Well I would say my practical experience trumps your theory! I have an Li battery that sits at 13.3v or so. In weak light the solar chargers, albeit at a low current even down to 0.2A when it is really poor. I don’t think this is any worse than when I had PWM with the same panel. In bright light the panel sits at around 18 or 19v and so the current magnification is around 135%. I suppose the question is, is the max power point voltage of a panel in weak light significantly lower than in strong light. Not sure, but I don’t think so.

The EoG mooring fee payable to CRT is half the cost of a comparable non-EOG mooring in the same area. Obviously some scope for CRT and the applicant to argue about which moorings are valid for the comparison. The additional fee which a boat owner pays to the landowner is entirely a matter for the two of them to agree. So in practice a householder can keep his own boat at the end of his garden for half the cost of a local mooring, but anyone renting such a mooring is likely to find the cost hiked up to close to the cost of other local moorings.

Same here Never seen it on Facebook, I love being referred to as a child, much better than old got

A variation of speed criticism that I had last week from an angler fishing off his boat was "you're making an awful lot of splashing". I suspect he is not conversant with the set up of raw water cooling as the only splash was from the exhaust with now bow wave or wash on the banks.

Given he seems not to understand about how to moor his boat, he is probably also unaware of the risks of PM2.5s in city centres and how thousands of innocent children are being killed by them. Don't you think you should make him aware? Just like you do everyone on here?

Earplugs

Point of Order.... Ocado = M&S + Waitrose. What's not to like!

when did you last lose your phone? or it run out of power?

hey if it weren’t for the boats passing fast I’d never get outta bed in the afternoon 😃

AJ canopies Braunston based all done with CAD measurements no drama great fit loads of materials and colours available.

It aggravates me no end when you see the CRT workboats working on resurfacing miles of remote towpaths and then the next set of locks you encounter are leaking and the paddle mechanisms are faulty. I don't pretend to know about CRT finances and CRT priorities and CRT work practices but all I do know is that the optics, from a boaters perspective, are awful.

The gates are always ready to push and, in fact, always ready to open should you push hard enough.