[MMMMarmite recipies]

Toast with butter, Marmite and Shropshire Blue. Or double cucumber, Marmite sandwiches cut into rectangles so I can stuff them in without getting Marmite in my beard.

Ryanair's 100 ml rule is really annoying when I fly back to Sweden! 

[Waterways tattoo]

2 hours ago, Athy said:

Whoops, quoted wrong post, sorry.

No worries :-) 

[Waterways tattoo]

I've never understood the need to say "I don't like tattoos" when someone shares their new ink. If we went about expressing everything we don't like about each other, life would get pretty grim. 

[Wet rooms in a narrow boat]

Interesting, over here anything but a wet room in a house or flat is illegal. Without one you wouldn't get any insurance and would probably have to pay for any water damage done to the neighbouring flats as well as your own.

 

Edit: the floors are slanted and any water left is just scraped to the drain with a squeegee. And if you got a "Stockholm shower" you just wipe the loo off with a towel. Easy.

[Hot Bulb Quiz - £20 prize]

14, which surprised me. :-)

[fish tank pump]

12v solar panel pump on eBay.

[Bring back Wanted]

Banned the wrong bloke! :-( BBW!

[Quantity of Coal?]

I'm happy in between 14-19C and use an average of a bag a week when boat sitting.

[Gender]

I've read that tugs and ice breakers are boys.

[What have you fettled for the boat today?]

Not my boat either. But she no longer has a creaky toilet lid :-) And I've had another go with the Hoover.

[Poorly on board]

A chamber pot on the roof?

[american red signal crayfish]

Poor mans lobster. Heh. Over here they go for £30 per kilo.

[Is it essential to have calorifier]

It's just a large thermos flask to store hot water for the kitchen and bathroom. If my future boat has one, I'd keep it and install a gas on demand boiler as well. If I'm cruising, free hot water is good. But if I'm standing still I'd rather hear the homely *poff* of my boiler than run the engine for 30-45 minutes to wash up. Unless I go old school and keep a kettle on the stove :-)

[Does this get the record for an unfinished project?]

I viewed it in September, while boat/cat sitting for Wanted and his sweet little family. Spent an hour rumaging around inside and out and on the neighboring boat. There's a boat for everyone and this one ticked all my boxes. Except for the pricetag. I specially liked the small portholes, like beady little eyes :-) Felt nice and safe not to have any window large enough to bash in and crawl into. Definetly not dark inside because of the 3 bulls eyes, or what those prisms things are called. One in the back cabin and two in the front lounge area. There's a side hatch where I'd put the kitchen and the darkish stretch after the engine is where I'd the bath and corridor past it. No wholes drilled for plumbing so one can still put everything where it would work best for who ever buys it in the end.

[50th Birthday Banter 10th October 2015]

I'll be there in spirit Ange.

[Piper Narrowboat ramming a lock gate]

Karma will catch up with him.

[Snake]

There are some lovely non tropical species from North America worth looking into. Eliminating my main concern about snakes on board, steady heat.

[Snake in canal]

Very effective defence, opening ones bowels on an attacker eh craftycarper? It's not a liquid. It's snake poo :-) Been there, done that. And can still smell it if someone brings it up.

[What do you do to make power?]

No mystery about the flashlights. If men miss the bog in broad daylight. Imagine what they can miss in the dark.

[Punkin Muck (knock off Baileys)]

Aaw, thanks you two. oxo Had a lot of stuff to deal with summer/fall. But i have been lurking in the shadows. Still have the boat bug :-)

[Punkin Muck (knock off Baileys)]

I understand that you have had some winter over there. Here's a well tested remedy. There's no use in making just one batch the first time. Cuz you will only be making a new one in a couple of days.

 

"Baileys.

Whip 3 farm eggs till fluffy.

Keep beating with the mixer as you add...

Vodka (or other 40%)

1 can sweetened condensed milk,

about the same of thick cream

1 tablespoon of chocolate topping

1 teaspoon of good vannilla extract (vannilla bean paste is a standout).

 

Shake before pouring over ice..."

[Toffe Vodka]

I can't be trusted near vodka or Werthers. Mixing them together is not wise.

[Which compost loo is best?]

The Separett Villa has a 12V model yes.

[Which compost loo is best?]

Separett Villa

[Flies - how to keep them under control?]

I stow away anything they might be interested in. Live on a farm and the number of flies are seldom enough to bother me. All the windows are open and when one fly flies in. Another one flies out.