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We can be fairly sure that when the emergency is over the rebuild bill will come out of CRT's coffers as there is no surplus in boris' Brexit battle budget for such fripperies.
Maybe CRT could apply for a European grant... Oh... Hang on...
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3 minutes ago, Heartland said:
This should have been done as soon as the dam faults were noticed!
Language Timothy!
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26 minutes ago, Jerra said:
As has been pointed out by myself and a number of other "bio" washing up liquid works.
They may work compared to "budget" washing up liquid but I have tried them with an open mind and, compared to Fairy, like cheaper normal brands, the eco brands just don't work as well.
They appear to be satisfied with matching the performance of budget brands but charging a premium price because of their "green" credentials.
As long as I can wash up with one drop of fairy compared to 5 or more times any other brand "green" or not, I am satisfied that my grey water is causing no more damage to the scores of fish happily munching on my hull growth than anyone using ecover (other green wash products are available).
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7 minutes ago, Jerra said:
OK I will try to make the question clearer.
No, you tried to make the question simpler which is exactly the point I was making.
It isn't a simple question...just like those who espouse veganism can't see beyond cow farts and recognise the environmental destruction that would be caused by everyone turning vegan.
There are no simple answers because there are no simple questions.
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48 minutes ago, matty40s said:
.. calling people a Joey after the guy on Blue Peter with Cerebral Palsy - a spastic at the time....
I was amazed when I heard my 12 year old's mate call him a "Joey" and when I asked him what he thought it meant he said that it just meant "idiot".
One of the sad things about the Joey Deakin story was that it was supposed to be a campaign to educate kids about disability and reduce prejudice but it had the reverse effect and gave the kids an insult that endures 40 odd years on.
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20 minutes ago, Jerra said:
So what do you suggest as the answer?
That really depends on the question.
I tire of single issue organisations thinking they know the answer when what is needed is a more measured holistic approach.
Coconut oil may be the answer for the locals who produce it but it is not the answer for us, halfway round the world.
The trendy green fads have done more harm than good to local populations nearly every time the guardian publishes its latest planet saving miracle crop story.
I did wonder if Greenpeace recycled its banners when it switched its pro palm oil biodiesel campaign to its "ban palm oil now" protest.
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3 minutes ago, Midnight said:
All five of them!
They don't have to visit to contribute.
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One of the problems I have with these "natural" products such as coconut oil is that, when you lift the lid and take a closer look they are not quite as "green" as they are heralded.
Coconut oil extraction is just as energy intensive as fossil oil unless it is cold pressed (I would hazard a guess that Ecover does not use cold pressed organic coconut oil).
Then there are the food miles and the fact that the high prices we pay for it do not trickle down to the poor farmer.
Coconuts may be the super plant that is going to save the world this week but look at Palm oil, Oilseed Rape, Quinoa and other wonder plants that have subsequently left a nasty taste in the mouth.
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5 minutes ago, Jerra said:
All I can find about it is: Sodium lauryl sulfate can be made from petroleum oil (via the OXO process) or from coconut or palm oil (via the Ziegler process). In both processes, fatty acids are extracted and converted to fatty alcohols, then sulfonated to become a crystalline salt.
So it would appear it could like the "bio" I use be based on a natural source.
Isn't petroleum oil from a "natural source" or were those dinosaurs synthesising chemicals long before us?
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44 minutes ago, Jennifer McM said:"Do you remember the time when the Sheps stuck it out till the end..."
From the Daily Mash:
The bluff Northerner’s guide to ignoring six-foot floods
1st August 2019
HARDY Northern folk aren’t scared of a few feet of cold water and collapsing bridges. Here Northerner Roy Hobbs explains how to carry on as normal.
Count yourself lucky
Northerners – particularly grans – are extremely good at making irrelevant comparisons to worse situations. So even though your home is a waterlogged wreck, reflect on the fact that at least you’re not in a wheelchair, or prison, or both.
Remember you don’t feel the cold
If you’re up to your chest in cold water, don’t fret because Northerners are genetically impervious to low temperatures. If you’re starting to go numb from hypothermia, you are not a true Northerner, so bugger off somewhere posh, Southern and la-di-da, like Wolverhampton.
Under no circumstances change your daily routine
Show some Northern pride and make no concessions to the floods. Take your dog for a walk to the newsagent’s as usual, even it means wading through four feet of water towing the terrified hound behind you in a washing-up bowl.
Have a Northern flood survival kit ready
This should contain: Eccles cakes; 120,000 tea bags (not Earl Grey); a sh*t, parochial local newspaper for reading matter; some nice lamb chops for tea; and a car battery to power the telly so you won’t miss ‘Corrie’, even if you’re stuck on the roof of your house.
Rely on the famous Northern sense of community
In an emergency, Northerners will immediately visit their neighbours with hot meals, flasks of tea and bottles of ale, although this may just be an excuse to sneer at the cleanliness of their net curtains.
Stop being so bl**dy soft
So you’re trapped in rising flood waters with a rapidly decreasing chance of survival? Get the kettle on, you big daft apeth.
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4 minutes ago, Midnight said:
... and packed with several non-paying visitors every now and again.
Many of them are paying visitors as they are tax payers.
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6 minutes ago, magpie patrick said:"Yawn"
Repeat - it's a reservoir subject to the Reservoirs Act - annual inspection by a panel engineer, risk assessment in case of overflow, statutory maintenance regime, emergency plan if it does fail etc. These are not optional extras.
Goddam experts...coming here and stealing all our conspiracy theories.
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Towpaths are cheap and visible.
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2 hours ago, regis said:
Many thanks for the advice. Followed the link. However, there is no evidence that the boat was ever ‘forward drive’. Everything is stern mounted. The boat is also in fibreglass not ply.
It would be great if I could find the spec for a 16 in GPR.
Anyway, once again, appreciate very much the help.
You're right and I'd even go as far as to say it isn't a Dolphin at all.
It is on a Wincheon trailer which were built by Brooklands and designed to carry Dolphins but I don't think it is actually a Dolphin.
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54 minutes ago, BruceinSanity said:
.....That Hans that do dishes, can be soft as Gervais, with mild green,
hairy lipped squid!"For the love of god get this man his coat.
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Ironically I preferred the good old days when you had to carry a tool kit, sand bags and a bag of sawdust just to get through a lock flight.
I started boating at the end of the "decline" and things got steadily better through the 80s but they were still great .
After a 5 year break working behind enemy lines in Europe I returned to boating at the beginning of the new "Golden Age" with functioning locks, bureaucracy, more and more sterile generic clonecrafts and less and less room for idiosyncrasy.
Eventually after my boat and home was torched I left the canals and went to sea (my OH swearing she would never return after being upset by nasty minded folk who revelled in our misfortune).
A return to the years of "waterways dystopia" might just see me move inland again.
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30 minutes ago, mrsmelly said:
I actualy attended a burglary at the " Real " Bill and Bens a lot of years ago now on Albion street. Just thought I would mention it
Was a flob-a-lot taken?
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46 minutes ago, Flyboy said:
When this shed boat capsizes and someone is drowned, CaRT will be blamed for allowing it on their water.
...and yet that someone has far more chance of sinking and drowning if he sits in the cabin of a modern hire boat crewed by inadequately trained holidaymakers going down a lock flight.
That someone's chances of dying will also increase rapidly if they fit a woodburner badly.
A lightweight shed built on an oil drum raft is very unlikely to capsize.
People have been putting sheds on pontoons and rafts for decades and I cannot recall a single death by capsizing.
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I've just done a quick Google and if you search "dolphin 16 forward drive" there is a thread on the YBW forum that can tell you more.
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It's a "Dolphin 16 forward drive" which I believe they stopped making in 69 but I know more about their wooden boats I'm afraid so I may be wrong.
Definitely 100% Brooklands though.
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27 minutes ago, Wanderer Vagabond said:
We never found any lockies at all on the Bridgewater Canal
Likewise the Ashby.
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6 minutes ago, WotEver said:
Mummy, why are your hands so soft?
Because I’m a model dear, you don’t think I’d actually do any washing up, do you?
Hey... Don't you diss Nanette.
She was a Stepford Wife so of course she did the washing up.
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It is also worth bearing in mind that hands that do dishes can feel as soft as your face with mild green Fairy Liquid.
I've never heard Ecover make that claim...
Mind you I've been on the boat for a week and left my razor at home so my face is as rough as a Badger's bum so the bar is set pretty low.
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Just now, Theo said:
Never heard of her.
I'm truly stunned...
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Whaley Bridge Evacuated
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A bung slightly smaller than the hose diameter is pulled through, sucking the water through with it.