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Arthur Marshall

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    Lord Byrons Maggot
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  1. I do like demobilisation. I wonder if they mobilised the construction site in the first place, though I suppose that would the second place, as they'd have mobilised it from the first place, in the first place, to Tod, which would then be the second place. I wonder though how you can demobilise a site, unless you just take the wheels off. Not that it matters. Happy St Pat's Day everyone, I'm off to play me fiddle.
  2. One if my favourite runs. Don't moor overnight before Milton, good moorings there and just below Engine Lock. Excellent 2nd hand bookshop in Milton if you're a reader.
  3. I don't think the presenter matters much, they're only reading the script they're given, so they're all just actors really. I did the voiceover on a stack of steam railway videos some years ago, and the fact I didn't know what I was talking about was irrelevant*. Narration is just script and timing. *ETA well, I presume it was. At least, they kept paying me to do another one!
  4. OK, fair enough. At least those who had the capacity to pay attention learnt that 25% of boat owners live on their boats, that the original navvies didn't have electric light and that nine year old kids should play with explosives. Dead educational, this telly.
  5. You mean a programme about canals is aimed at everyone who isn't interested in canals? Odd. I may well not watch next week's one on railways, even though I must be the intended audience, as I'm not interested in them. It's lucky for David Attenborough that so few people are interested in animals, as obviously his programmes aren't aimed at anyone who is...
  6. And didn't want to spend any money on research, or the script, or the presenter, or the director... you really think easy watching has to be badly written, badly narrated tosh aimed at people you hope have switched their brains right off? It was Channel 5, I suppose, so maybe you're right. But I suspect no other channel would touch it with, well, a bargepole.
  7. My argument with it was the tone of the commentary. The talking heads were mostly ok, even the Cunk lady, but the main bloke and script was dreadful - patronising in that "this is jolly good fun, isn't it?" way of a 1950s government information film, or one of those Disney wildlife things they used to show in schools. As if, because he was talking to stupid, ignorant people, he'd be pretending to share the joke that this wasn't really serious, now, was it? The error is thinking people don't want a bit of depth, a bit of knowledge, the sense that these canals actually mattered to people - both those earning their living back in the day and those renovating or using it now. And nine year olds being used to light the dynamite fuses because they could run faster than grown men, that's really funny, isn't it? That's a real joke. I wonder how many died. That was when I felt it had gone beyone the pale. A serious point could and should have been made, but no, it was just a laugh a minute, building canals, and everyone was having a damn good time. There was the bit about some people losing all their money in the bubble while a few made a fortune, and that being jolly good, too. So much for economics. I thought it was appalling. Nice pictures, though.
  8. If anyone was genuinely only interested in killing wildlife humanely, they'd never own a cat. The guy who sold me my air gun for shooting squirrels insisted I bought one powerful enough for a clean kill, but as the target for that in the head is about the size of a peanut, it's virtually impossible to to do. My predecessor here used to trap and drown them. The last hedgehog to appear unwisely in my garden got disemboweled by a badger - I doubt it stunned it first. The thing is, animals don't treat animals humanely. Most humans don't even treat other humans humanely if they can get away with it. I can't get upset about a rat. And I swat wasps.
  9. Glad I'm not the only one thought it was pretty bad. Though I did learn something. How else would I have known that the navvies building the system didn't have electricity? And whoever wrote the script should be sacked: "comprised of" indeed. Possibly I'm turning into Athy...
  10. If it's still doing it, I think we're out of suggestion unless we get more data. You could post a photo of your filler point so we can see if there's a problem with that. We need to know the type of boat and the nature of the tank (integral steel or plastic). We need to know if this is a new boat to you, so you've never tried to fill the tank before, so we know if this is a new problem that's never happened before or not. And we need to know why you think the tank is empty. At least we now know you're on a river. I can't see how it can be an airlock as air can escape as easily up the filler as elsewhere. You've used a wire so you know there isn't a blockage in the pipe (sorry, I missed that before) . If it were me, which it aint, I'd think the tank is full and water isn't coming through for some other reason. If that's why you think it's empty. Does your water pump run when you turn the taps on?
  11. Surely an airlock in a water tank filler tube would clear itself pretty quickly, they're usually wide pipes not a thin tube. Trying to fill with jerry cans is a bit odd, too - would take hours and about a hundred to even quarter fill mine. Is this a narrowboat or a cruiser, how much does the tank usually hold, and are you absolutely certain it's empty? If you're not getting water to the taps, the tank may be full and you've got problems elsewhere. And finally, shove something flexible all the way down the filler pipe, though I can't believe you haven't done that already. If it won't go down, pipe's blocked. If it goes all the way down and water still sits at the top of the filler tube, your tank's full.
  12. I sold my first one to the council so they could knock it down. I think we got £400 in cash and a very nice council house to move into!
  13. Watching it. Feels like it's made for kids, schools maybe, patronising commentary and a woman expert who both looks and sounds like Philomena Cunk...
  14. Which implies the world would be a cleaner and lovelier place if we cut down all the trees and burnt them, rainforests and all. But I'm still unconvinced...
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