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Sent last week on the Caldon. Met some egregious people. The people who helped my wife (and me!) with a stiff paddle on the staircase. Horrible. The people who found us a table in their pub despite it being clearly rammed to the gills with prebooked tables. Awful. The people who warned us of a hidden underwater obstacle at Cheddleton Flint mill. Vile. The dozen or so CRT volunteers doing a fabulous job clearing the towpath. Terrible people. Dreadful canal as well. All the locks working (bar the one stiff paddle), everything well maintained. I trust that fits in with the style of posting people like to read on here. I'd hate anyone to imagine we had a good time on a nice canal with some lovely people.

Some total idiot came past my mooring today on tickover, then slowed even further to have a chat. Just can't understand some people.

You can have the best cables in the world and still suffer poor charging performance if there is fluff in the USB C port of the device, thus preventing the plug from being fully pushed in. I find it’s a particular problem on my phone that I always carry around in my pocket. It pays to get a plastic toothpick (or similar non conductive material) and give it a scrape out. I do this every 6 months and you’d be amazed at the amount of compressed fluff I remove.

Out of date extinguishers are specifically permitted by the BSS

Would the next step up from the dog box be a horse box?

Don't call it a potter's cabin lol, you'll upset the nerds. It's a forecabin. It's where they bunged extra children back in the old days.

Remind me where dogs shit...

This is not a common belief I have ever heard of.

Awesome, thanks! I had no eye deer such a thing existed. Just orded two, one for each boat. BTW you can delete everything after the question mark in an ebay or amazon link and it still works, just as I have truncated your link. Click it and see!

Rubbish. You obviously have no idea what you are posting about and know nothing of London. It's my home and I blooming love it here. You name it, the best of it is available within a 40 minute bike ride. Including beer. Yes, breweries do introduce new stuff in London, for obvious reasons. There's loads of really great pubs here selling and championing well decent beers. And, just like every other place I've been in the UK, plenty of crap pubs selling bottled sewage to tourists and the gormless. I think Manchester and the Northeast take the gold medal for bottled fizzy lager drinking per head, and I think the statistics on UK lager drinking will back me up. In fact the region tops the list for budget spirits, super strength lagers, Bucky, and liver disease. It goes with the overall orange tan, leopard skin, too-tight trouser tropical shirt in January look. Problem is that rates and leases are so high that the prices are likewise in London. Which is indeed steadily strangling pubs as they can only survive on food, and often they can't do that well because they have not got the staff.

That because for 250 and 500 hours it says do what is listed for 50 hours plus some extras so it gets the oil change by incorporation of the 50 hours.

Mine lasted, I changed them last month as the first one I fitted the date was up, so I changed both of them and took the indate one to put up at home They don't take all day. Some examiners will do 3 or 4 at the same location in a day, only one lot of travelling, Not all will be charging £200, there is no set price

Another successful ploy then - but Evergiven style should allow you to stay for at least a month in one place😄

I'd only heard that in the context of The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway by Genesis, where there are slubberdegullions on squeaky feet - I'd assumed they had made it up!

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I wonder why not cats. Cats are quiet and clean. Dogs are dirty and noisy.

Our dog is a rescue and certainly for the first 12-18 months he was a challenge and quite a few times made us question if we had done and were doing the right thing. It has taken a lot of time, patience and effort to get the dog we have today. He still isn't perfect by any means and still has his moments. He is very rarely allowed off lead time and only when we know 100% there are no other dogs around. We find other ways to tire him out and keep him mentally active and stimulated (which is most of the issue with problem dogs) He can still be a nuisance. But for this holiday at least he has been a model citizen. He has been too tired to cause trouble, unlike a lot of other dogs we have met. You can tell by the owners physique shall we say how well behaved their canine companion is going to be 🙄