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1 hour ago, fittie said:
was it Goodness foods, bakers, that were some religious group. Good cakes though.
Yes Goodness Foods were owned by the Jesus Army.
They also had a bakery/cake shop in Weedon.
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Last I heard it was up the Great Ouse but that was years ago.
Edited to add:
Many, many years ago and what a transformation, looking at the resto thread.
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28 minutes ago, roland elsdon said:
Then the sex abuse came out in 2023
Edited because this is so far off topic.
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13 minutes ago, Terrierious said:
just not ideal to have two toilets in a already compact bathroom 🙂
I'm 6' tall and used to own a Fiat 126 so I've had practice sitting with my knees round my ears.
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I can't help you with your pump-out issues but, to get away on your travels on thursday, you might want to consider a back-up chemical toilet.
Whenever I had a boat with a pump-out I always had a portable toilet as a back up.
Personally I favour the Kampa-khazi type toilet because, whilst not quite as pleasant to use as porta-potti types, they are infinitely better to empty and clean.
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19 minutes ago, T_i_m said:
400W panel at 70 quid
Do you have a link for this please?
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8 minutes ago, Jonny P said:
Always thought that faggots and peas (pays) was more a Black Country thing. As is the cob.I think Coventrians would also recognise that cob refers to a crusty batch even though they may still refer to it as a batch.
Isn't "Cob" more East Midlands?
This is one of 7 cobbles celebrating something about Coventry...
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2 minutes ago, Ianws said:
A Bolton delicacy is the Pasty Barm
Served with chips...to make sure there are enough carbs?
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1 minute ago, Ianws said:
The tea cake/ fruit teacake insanity is also a thing around some areas in East Lancashire, such as Blackburn.
I ventured across the border once, on a clandestine black pudding hunt, when I first encountered Lancashire Oven Bottom Muffins.
A thing of true artistic beauty, especially with a slab of black pudding and brown sauce slapped in the middle.
Just now, Hudds Lad said:I'd eat that.
Suspect it pales in comparison to the Deep Fried Black Pudding Butty ....
Cross post irony.
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1 minute ago, agg221 said:
That looks like one of those things which is so wrong that it works. I could go for one of those!
Alec
The only picture I could find was in a posh bun with a pine cone garnish.
The one you get in a chippy with a soggy green stained burger bun is far less appealing.
Faggots and gravy in the bun...fine but mushy peas diffusing into a cheap bun with chip shop gravy?
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42 minutes ago, Hudds Lad said:
Whatever you call them, if you start sprinkling any sort of seed nonsense on the top you can just get in the sea.
...and what the 'eck is a "Brioche Bun"?
It should come with custard, not a burger!
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35 minutes ago, Hudds Lad said:
It's just bread, why so mad?
I got a bit irate when I moved to Coventry and got blank faces until I called it a "batch".
Then I discovered that their local delicacy is "Faggot and Mushy Pea Batch"
That's just wrong!
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1 minute ago, magnetman said:
Yes. Thats what I was concentrating on as well. It looks like a small HSL with a shed on top. Produced by a yard making military vessels I think.
Spot on I think.
When fast boats had a nice V-hull profile unlike the flat-bottomed wave-slappers today.
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1 minute ago, dogless said:
Barnsley is a cultural island I think 😁
Rog
Whereas Doncaster is a cultural desert.
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26 minutes ago, dogless said:
A teacake has currants in.
That is UNLESS you're from Barnsley where any bread roll, breadcake, scuffler, cobb, bap, or whatever name you put to it is called a teacake and a teacake with currants in is called a fruit teacake.
I know ! 🤭
Rog
Interesting that less than 20 miles down the road, in Doncaster. A teacake always had currants.
I also know!
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15 minutes ago, dogless said:
It was about 25 - 35 feet I'd guess ... certainly didn't look like a canal boat so I think you guys are correct in that it was a river craft of some description..
That underwater profile suggests seagoing capabilities.
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32 minutes ago, Stroudwater1 said:
it is in Yorkshire apparently?A Yorkshire teacake is a breadcake/stottie/scuffler with currants (soaked in strong tea) in it.
In my bit of Yorkshire, though...It's a big place.
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15 hours ago, Kate_MM said:
Haven't replied before because I was puzzled - having done some investigating, Hardy has never been with Ian Staples and even if it had, Sean visited us at Tooley's before he died and was delighted that we (including Ian) were making an effort to work on it.
Who was the owner who lost heart? We now know, and are in touch with, most of the previous owners so if this is an additional one we'd love to meet them.
Fair enough.
I'm not going to enter a "He said, She said" discussion about a close friend who has died.
I'm glad you got a chance to meet Sean, however briefly.
On 04/12/2024 at 22:38, MtB said:Do you remember what engine was in the HESPERUS? And what became of it? A terrible shame if it was anything historic the got scrapped and lost in passing, just because the boat it was in was abandoned and disposed of by CRT.
Hesperus had a Ruston Hornsby when I first encountered it in the 90s but, after so many sinkings, it may well have been swapped out.
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On 05/03/2024 at 10:41, Martin Nicholas said:
You can tell if you have employed an engineer as the hourly rate will be in the low hundreds of pounds.
If only that were true.
Sadly not all engineers could hope to achieve anywhere near the "low hundreds of pounds" an hour.
Rate of pay is not the measure of one's engineering status.
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Gayton Marina...
2hr 15 mins from Maidstone
£1800 for a 30 footer
Grove Lock Marina
2 hours from Maidstone
£2335
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On 20/03/2025 at 23:28, Tony1 said:
Unless the aliens land (again) and abduct you, whilst mind controlling the elderly lock volunteers to drill holes in your boat.
To be fair, the second part of that scenario hasn't happened to me.
This old thread sprang immediately to mind...
Edited to add....
In fact it is that thread's 11th Birthday...
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On 06/12/2024 at 18:55, Kate_MM said:
Yes, we have a pretty good history of Hardy and believe that it had an Armstrong Syddeley. However, the question of authenticity versus sustainability does seem to be one of the dilemmas of restoration, and something that we need to explore with both potential funders (esp if it's lottery and public money) as well as other similar projects.
It had a Lister JP3 which I believe someone stole the cylinder head off but there was a AS3 (Usk's old lump) waiting to go in when the owner lost heart but couldn't find a buyer. Hardy was rescued from Staples back in the early 90s and Sean would be spinning in his grave if he thought Ian was going to get his hands on Hardy again.
Has Staples rebuilt Langho yet?
Didn't think so.
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3 hours ago, regine said:
It was a genuine question - I presumed you could make way from south coast to Basingstoke along either a navigable canal or river network - / without going up to the Thames and along. Some useful comments and some less useful ... !!! Hey ho ...
Give Tony Tug Boats a ring... https://www.tonytugboats.com/
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