Jim Riley

Ha! Nah, don't do hanging around. Too painful, more popular with women. I prefer others to suffer for my art.

A highly Approved School?

Hmmm, so the OP paid for a couple of years, presumably happily, is now a CCer and wants all her rent back? I wonder what the reason for the change of circumstances is, a falling out with the "landlord", a quest for revenge?

Well, did you get your jollies? Cheaper than flowers, unless you work in a graveyard.

Surely it must put out h2o, to condense in the boat, if there is no flue. Bit like catalytic gas heaters. Safe but damp.

You've forgotten already? Bless. Ask Nurse.

You could help with the campaign to rejoin, leave us all in the midden.

Just show them you still have your Bow Drawing Fingers. That'll learn 'em.

You could try the well lit manchester canals for your night time cruising.

Blue lights? Obvious, a Baghead deterrent, they can't see their veins. I'll be buggered if I go there at night though.

There is also the question of Business Rates, a charity can get rate relief, the landlord would have to pay it on an empty shop.

After Grandmas funeral at Rochdale Crem about 20 years ago, I had cause to visit the toilet round the back of the building, walked by the chimney as there was a gust of wind, got a whiff of burning fatty bacon! Pm2.5 r us !

A relative of Officer dibble? As for the colour, what about going posh paint style, "Old Chough"

You can just untie the string from one of your new fangled 2 tins and string communication device, tie that end to your boat and you'll get a tug if it moves. Or, set a pigeon trap in reverse, so the pigeon is released to come and alert you when the boat moves.

I see he's selling off one of his first recordings. Obviously he now understands what the acronym BOAT means.

@TheGuyUk ain't Wayne. Different style too.

Dunkers is still right, others disagree. Still squabbling. You should go and have a look, think of it as a visit to the zoo, watching the monkeys poop chucking and self abusing. (Polite Euphemisms still not needed over there🤣). There are some tame animals on view and a rather fluffy beast in a straw hat who is literally nameless.

I agree, the spelling mistooks are atrocious.

The forum lives up to its reputation...

Re not making money on an old hull, it's not always the case. My now finished (if it ever is 😉) project, restoring a hull of unknown age and provenance, first registered in '68, with a wooden top and roofing felt roof!, is now worth maybe a 1/3 more than I have spent, passed 2 bss, due the 3rd this summer. It has been a labour of love, using recycled materials including some of the innards of a caravan about to be scrapped. The bed units, kitchen unit all prebuilt and lightweight. With a bit of judicious trimming to fit the tumble home, the complete plastic lined bogshed with shower and cassette went in no problem, solid oak flooring throughout, new steel top battened sprayfoamed and lined out, electrickery and gas fitted. I've no intention of selling it, but if I did I would make a bit of profit.

I had a DC 22 for years, always hankered after a Highbridge 32, built on the DC moulds but with a well deck at the front and a rear cockpit. They were layed up extra thick too. Our DC was heated with a small pot belly woodstove. An ecofan will spread the heat around the cabin. Of course they need work, but what doesn't. A tin sewer tube anywhere near the price of a DC will need even more work and it will be harder to do. DAMHIK! A Highbridge in good condition would probably be around 10k, from the last time I looked seriously at them. I didn't go that route in the end because SWMBO needed help getting on, the gunnels on a DC are quite high and arthritic hips couldn't manage when the banking was low, a really cheap 35ft NB project turned up, so we took that on! Go for it Don't pay any heed to the grumpy lot on here (especially re ecofans🤣). It's a good way to start. There are also moorings on the Rochdale, Todmorden or Hebden, possibly a couple in Littleborough, all on the train line from MCR.

Big Job's taking longer than expected. Staff now on overtime, time and a turd.

It's the cold weather, encourages snowflakes.

Was the wasp expensive? I hope you didn't get stung.

Just had a peek. That is a lot better, I would've understood, given the context . Have a virtual greenie.