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pinkoi

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  • Birthday 01/11/1982

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    Hercules
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  1. Thanks for sharing the old pic of Rowan, it’s made my evening. I haven’t been on the forum in years but an email arrived telling me you linked to my for sale post. I have 100’s of pictures of Rowan from when we owned her and some historic ones I gathered. Plus some branded cups that Middlewich gift shop used to sell ❤️ Miss her very much ❤️
  2. For what it's worth... I'm really hoping it is a case of you get what you pay for: We had a cheapy clarke inveter genny that we had for 18 months before the inverter on it gave up, but it was cheap, it did overheat once and I was surprised it lasted as long as it did. So I was most disappointed after spunking over 600 quid on a Hyundai HY2000sei for the inverter on it to give up after less than 2 months (about 50 hrs) having never getting wet or being overloaded. I found someone at the company who sold it to me willing to talk candidly. They admitted to me that if you get a "good one" it will last but that there seems to be some "quality control" issues and quite a lot of dud ones get out into the wild and fail in this way quite quickly. I got my money back and have a honda eu20i on it's way to me. I was seduced by the electric remote start on the hyundai but at the end of the day I'd rather do a pull start on something that works! Also the honda is about 10kg lighter. H
  3. It sort of makes you grateful that your home floats!
  4. Hi, The flood gate is open now but I'm not sure about the Cherwell conditions beyond Shipton Weir Lock. You could try asking CRT, but I don't know if/how often they send someone down to look at the lever markers for that stretch anyway. I'd still be inclined to give it a few more days, the Cherwell is still quite big in places It doesn't flood very often on the actual towpath side but the offside moorings by the church do end up with water pouring over from a stream when the ground is saturated but it only happens once or twice a year. Nothing a nice pair of wellies wouldn't fix
  5. Gate is now open but I know nothing of the Cherwell conditions but boats have moved from Shipton, but they may just be waiting at the weir lock Well yes, that too, It's very uncivilised having to move your own gas bottles
  6. Water level is much reduced now and one chap moored behind us heard from CaRT that the gate may be opened in the next day or so. Lets hope it doesn't rain too much more. Having said that, I'm not sure what the situation will be like north of Shipton Wier Lock as I imagine the Cherwell it's self will still be quite exciting
  7. PJ, I hadn't thought of that aspect, but you are right. Especially as it was threatening to breach under normal circumstances a month or two ago. I'm also glad to hear you have the availability of the services of the pub high up the list Even though we may all need to snorkel there on Friday
  8. It's the lesser of 2 evils, either they hold the water back slightly there so that it spills over into the field as it's doing, or, the canal further down over fills and it starts spilling over into the houses in thrupp and the lower bits of towpath along the thrupp moorings. I admit it does look look like abit of a chocolate fire guard but it makes just about enough difference to be useful and slows the water enough for the weir at thrupp to be able to let water out fast enough to keep the level stable.
  9. Unsurprisingly the river Cherwell is a bit wetter than usual and the flood gate at br220 on the South Oxford Canal is closed and has been since Xmas eve when CaRT came to shut it. Hopefully anyone with any designs on going north have already abandoned hope of doing so for a while. This was it this morning. Rather classic moment on Sunday morning when a flotilla? of about 20 rowers/canoeists who have probably been displaced from the flooded Thames decided to come for a jolly up the nice safe canal, only to be stopped by the gate! They didn't look too cheerful... Hope this helps
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  11. I have to say I was quite surprised too. We do have a little 3.5kg washing machine but that gets run once a week for 2 adults and sometimes twice if it's time to wash bed linen or towels. I think the washer uses about 40litres a wash. I had this drummed into me by my mom: Clean underwear every day. Clean top half every other day (excluding jumpers and other things that go over the top of the first layer which last a week). Clean bottom half every week. Towels and bedlinen every 2 weeks. I don't have scabies yet and I don't think I smell
  12. I do hope I get to see Clytie in real life at some point soon...
  13. Oi - who you telling to shut it!?
  14. You will probably find this link useful. It shows the level of the Cherwell at Thrupp: http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/homeandleisure/floods/riverlevels/136497.aspx?stationId=7066 It's on the rise at the moment but otherwise it's at the lower end of typical range but as we saw last winter, things can change quite rapidly. Maybe see you in the pub (The Boat inn - number 1 on PJ's extensive and thoroughly researched list)!
  15. Thanks for looking - and yes I could only find something about Hercules the working boat. I'm in the process of writing the former owner an email to see if she can clarify anything further. Cheers!
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