Christine
-
Posts
814 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Events
Gallery
Blogs
Store
Posts posted by Christine
-
-
Middlewich Narrow Boats are right on the canal in Middlewich with easy access - a bit like a railway station. Maybe they would let you stop there to collect your friend?
Tel 01606 832460 to ask in advance.
-
Oh er Bones - looks like a touch of Dry Rot
Wiki sats that:
"Commercial anti-freeze is also very effective at preventing dry rot formation as well as killing the fungus"
Good luck - I hope it is treatable.
-
Thanks, Cat, for helping me understand the mushrooms reference, which had eluded me until then.
Me too.
-
Learnt today that pride comes before a fall - I was walking past the allotments, (not looking where I was going), too busy gloating that my runner beans were better than anyone on the 'lotment' when I fell into a pothole in the road and now have a very bloody knee and looked TRES STUPIDO in front of a load of kids at the bus stop.
-
I was down at Greatham Bridge by 8.00am, this morning delayed somewhat by a bull in the road. Had an interesting chat to guy in car park who seems to be living in a van with a wood burning stove in it!
Anyway -
I went the wrong way - I went along the river bank so had to traverse deep sloshy mud but managed to get through to the east side of the lock. I guess this would be impossible at any other time than near drought.Should anyone like to see the remains of Coldwaltham Lock - A29 at Coldwaltham, turning to Greatham, park in the car park by bridge and go through the Sussex WildLife Trust gate in the car park and follow path along. Coldwaltham Lock is south at the wooden bridge, by bushes. (I heard a Cetti's warbler in there)
(If I could get the 'new' Photobucket to work I would have posted the pics - I have e-mailed them to Kev.)
-
But as you are of obviously Northern lineage, surely you remember that now rarely heard-of meal, High Tea?
By 'eck! High Tea.
Wern't that 'a nice bit o' ham salad' and tinned peaches ("Mind - only take 5 slices. Our Christine") with a slice of bread and butter? And tea with sterilized milk
-
SNIP
Wife from Aspull, me from Worsley - now part of the Joint Northern Cultural Envoy to t' bloody South. Very confusing down here, they have their dinner at teatime.
I've just found out that Great Grandfather had the George & Dragon, Whelley & Grandmother grew up in the Eckersley Arms, Wigan. She married at St James, Poolstock.
I'm from West Sussex.
(BTW - Lunch at dinner time, afternoon tea at tea time, dinner (Din's) at 7.00pm and supper when you come home from the theatre.
) -
I could hop down there tomorrow morning for you - I was there today! PM me with any specific requirements.
-
I was equally disappointed when, on moving to Paris, I discovered that the TV channel "Canal+" wasn't dedicated to the inland waterways of France. I love it, or as they say on Canal+ "Je l'aime"
-
Rather than a book, have you seen this site:Animated Knots Excellent stuff.
-
Off you, or off your keyboard, (or off both) ?
Tongue firmly in cheek, here: tomorrow you could learn how to spell polyurethane.
I'm still nibbling off the polyurethane off my fingers wiv my teef and scratching off the polyurethane from my keyboard
So what have I learnt today? Don 't stop by to read this blooming forum
-
It seems that firewood is a less valued commodity "up there" than "down here" then ?
It never seems to need BW to clear many fallen trees down here. As soon as news spreads there is usually a horde of local live-aboards with chain saws descending upon them like locusts!
Willow isn't much cop for firewood tho'.
-
I learnt today that if I stop by to read my emails and get distracted by CWF and start reading topics like "What new thing have you learned (sic) today" with hands covered in polyurethene varnish, it is a bu**er to get off when it's dry.
-
Well done BSP!
Keep posting, it's better than Coronation Street! Very best wishes for your future happiness. Today is 1 year since I packed in my last job and I took a minute to reflect on my life. No regrets at all. I hope it works out for you too.
-
Doh sorry, I hadn't read back you replies.
Good luck tho'. I hope you get what you want BSP. I'm on tenterhooks here waiting to know the outcome.
-
Maybe it is time to raise a formal grievance. Ignoring a termination of employment letter is just not on! See here: Grievance Proceedure
-
I posted this some time ago which may be of interest - day boats working on the BCN.
Chris
-
Here is some photos that I posted a couple of years ago. (Is this the same Lock keeper woman that you met at Frise?)
Link to Frise on Somme Canal (2nd posting) "We met a boat waiting for the Eclusiere to arrive, having telephoned the number displayed in the control house door.
After about 10 minutes she arrived with her children"
P.S. Daniel - in the 3rd photograph of the Peniche, you can just see a car across the deck. That's the way to do it!
-
It's probably safer to use this link that googling Dick Tools
If you drool over tools, the catalogue is free (or online) and is amazing. Lots of unusual Japanese stuff.
-
Re: Your yellow paint problem. I think it was because oof the yellow colour which attracted the blighters
Quote from Yahoo Answers:
"Insects are attracted to colors associated with whatever they eat. Mosquitos eat nectar, so if nectar is generally associated with yellow (either the nectar itself, or it's surroundings, are yellow), then yes, they would be most attracted to yellow.
If you are trying to figure out which colors to wear or not wear, to minimize the chances of being bitten, you should stick with light sahdes of khaki, beige, and olive. These colors are the least likely to attract them, but you want to avoid dark shades that might absorb more light (producing more heat), because mosquitoes are also attracted to heat.
(As a side note, mosquitoes don't need blood as a food source. Only the female ones suck blood, because they need components of the blood for the development of thier eggs.)"
My Ma hangs strips of yellow sticky stuff in her greenhouses to catch flies - end result looks like your side panels! I remember the yellow painted boat from Legard Bridge - I guess it went around with a permanent swam of flies over it.
-
Hey BSP!
Totally daft idea but it is 2.00am - Re: Soup Dragon.
A girl who calls her business 'The Soup Dragon' and who is on the same Farmer's Markets circuit as me, sells homemade soup in plastic pots @ £2.95 a pop. She always sells all 50 pots that she brings so I guess easily clears about £100 a week gross for not a huge lot of effort. Seasonal ingredients and using a pressure cooker would be the most eficient way to do it in terms of fuel.
Probably a totally daft idea for boat bound folks but it is one of the best little money earners I have come across - you would need hygiene certs etc.
There, your financial future is assured!
Chris
-
Brilliant! Well done! Very best wishes for the future.
I have 'stuffed' 2 jobs in as many years and am loving life now. I hope it works out for you.
Chris
-
-
Here is a link to a previous thread. I hope it helps. Painting spirals on pole
I went the wrong way - I went along the river bank so had to traverse deep sloshy mud but managed to get through to the east side of the lock. I guess this would be impossible at any other time than near drought.
BONES
in Build Blogs
Posted
Im pretty sure it's Dry Rot and I quote ('Safeguard - making homes safer'):
Dry rot is the stuff of rotten floors under dripping washing machines, leaky grout around baths and showers and slipped slated on roofs. Wood (or stone, plaster etc.) is attacked by fungal growth which slowly creaps along and rots away when left in damp and unventilated conditions.
Wet rot is rotting wet wood - e.g. unpainted external joinery, stacks of old pallets left behind the garage waiting to be made into something marvellous or chopped up for Bone's woodburner. (<----Ken
)