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Baton Twirlers Stage Protest (again)
Arthur Marshall replied to Alan de Enfield's topic in General Boating
Exactly. Our opinions differ - such is the nature of opinion. Mine is that that cannot in any way be seen as a continuous cruise. Largely because it isn't continous, it's continually inerrupted. Of course there are. It's why they are now being surcharged. PS had enough of this now - been rehashed so often with entrenched views it's pointless. Badly drawn up laws get interpreted by each individual to their own advantage, quite rightly. I'm off to play the fiddle. -
Baton Twirlers Stage Protest (again)
Arthur Marshall replied to Alan de Enfield's topic in General Boating
Post leaked from the political ghetto! -
Baton Twirlers Stage Protest (again)
Arthur Marshall replied to Alan de Enfield's topic in General Boating
Can't say I care what the Act says, as nobody else seems to, including a fair sprinkling of judges. And I said "should ", as that was very obviously the point of the concession in the first place - it wasn't that a large number of well off people could duck out of paying for using their toy. Nor, of course, was it to open the door to the system being a source of cheap housing, but that was the result of intentional increase in the cost of, and decrease in the availability of, rental property. I'm a lot more sympathetic to the latter than I am the former. -
Baton Twirlers Stage Protest (again)
Arthur Marshall replied to Alan de Enfield's topic in General Boating
Synchronistic infandibulum, I think, invented by Vonnegut. The one point in the universe where two entirely incompatible facts can both be true at the same time. -
Baton Twirlers Stage Protest (again)
Arthur Marshall replied to Alan de Enfield's topic in General Boating
Would cost more in bureaucracy than it would bring in, especially as just about all of it would end up being paid by the benefit system one way or another. CC licences should only be granted to those who actually live on board for the duration of the licence. Anything else is daft. The "thought concept" someone mentioned above, of a person with two boats, one CC registered and one home moored, is illogical. If boat A is being continually cruised, the other boat is permanently unused. If boat B is lived on, boat A can't cruise. If boat A is a leisure boat, then it can't CC. If boat B is the leisure boat, then boat A can't CC (unless holidays are always less than 14 days). Logically, both should have moorings. I am aware that there are people on the forum who do in fact have boats A and B, registered differently. I'd be interest to read how they justify it, because I'm sure they can, though as I say , I can't see it, unless the CC boat is just dumped round the system, using the towpath as a free mooring, NBTA style, (which is why there's now a surcharge, of course). ETA NB I don't really care much what anyone does, dumper, CCer, home moorer, shiny or yoghurt pot. Doesn't affect me much, I'm just interested in the argument/debate. -
Baton Twirlers Stage Protest (again)
Arthur Marshall replied to Alan de Enfield's topic in General Boating
One of the worst things you can do as a "representative" of anything is to pick a fight you're bound to lose. Does anyone still take the NBTA seriously? Fairly sure CRT don't. -
I never keep the baffle plate in place. It's fine for a house with a proper chimbley, but a trap for debris and gunk in a boat, as well as cutting the draw which is never enough on a boat anyway.
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VAT almost certainly irrelevant wuth a small frader, the turnover isn't high enough and usually the punter buys the materials, so just pays for labour. When the VATman got merged with the Taxman they got a bit less fearsome.
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Many, many years ago as a self employed person I can remember having to send accounts in to the Tax Office with my Return. When that ended is lost in the mists of time, but your Return has to be pretty weird before the IR will ask to see accounts, especially as there's probably only one person in every four offices who could understand them. Now they just want figures for turnover, expenses (not itemised) and profit. And nobody looks at 95% of tax returns anyway. That's what "Self Assessment" means.
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I don't think they did. I think they just lost the cheque and thought they'd paid it in. If they'd decided to accept my word they'd have let me know, especially in the light of the rather stonking letter that went with the cheque. Even if they had, they should in the interests of security, let me know they had torn up the cheque. But they've done nothing. They must have recieved the letter because I demanded they remove my details from their database, and I no longer get texts telling me when they are delivering. They'll probably find the cheque in another six months and try to pay it in, when the bank will refuse it until they've checked with me.
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That's where my coal boat hassle started, no receipt. When I gave up arguing and sent a further cheque (which arguably I shouldn't have done) I requested a receipt by return of post. I never got one, and as far as I can tell they've not cashed the cheque, either. Canal businesses tend to be a bit of a shambles.
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Sound a bit like my bucket of grief with the fuel boat mob, which was all down to lousy accounting and crap communication. Some of these canal firms are so inefficient it's a wonder they stay in business, though it's odd that every mistake they make means you get overcharged, never, ever, under!
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Thanks, I thought it must be something like that. I remember the days I used, when boating with no internet on the tub, to just sit on a wall outside someone's house and pick up my email...
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The Kobo connrcted to the house wifi fine until this week. Now it wants the password, but ignores it and won't connect. Apparently Kobo use a very cheap and nasty wifi chip, and it's all based on a very old android version. It says it wants a WPA/WPA2 password - I assume this is the one everything else (eg Sky box) uses to connect? I changed a router setting from WPA2 to WPA/WPA2 and now it works. The connection is better on the tablet too. If someone out there can tell me why I'd be grateful! I was an early adopter of all things computerised, internetty and then webby, but have now been well left behind.
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Some do. My old Lenovo tavlet did but an upgrade stopped that working. I now make sure the wifi is off when not in use and always turn the location off, as that uses loads of power. I use a widget on the home screen to turn the wifi off.
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Excellent. Cables are weirdly important. I've got a Kobo reader that will charge ok with two cables but won't connect to the computer with either of them, but will with a third. And its wifi will connect via my phone hot-spot but not with the house WiFi. These things are designed with built in irritations.
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If it's absolutely stone dead, it won't make a noise or show 0% because there's no power to do it. Good luck.
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If the battery is completely flat, it may take a while on charge before it even shows it's charging, presumably because there isn't enough power to run the gubbins that lets it know the battery is flat. And if it's charging from a 12v car charger, it's not getting much current anyway.
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Check there's no muck in the charging port, blow into it and maybe probe carefully with a pin. Try other cables. Found this online (nb says volum up button, not volume down) .: If you can’t find any problem on the charger, cable, and port, you can try this method. Although this method seems weird, but many users have reported that this method worked for them. Disconnect the charger from the Samsung tablet. Hold the power button and the volume up button for 30 seconds. Keep holding buttons while plugging in charger. Continue to hold buttons for another 30 seconds. Release power button only and keep volume button pressed still.
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Has anyone in all history ever successfully sued a surveyor?
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Very true. Most have stopped round here, too. I packed in regular pub work when the pandemic shut down happened, and even then a lot of the time we were playing to half empty pubs apart from a few of the ones in a real Irish community. They just had a brewery entertainments fund which they had to spend. Now, it's open mic nights or sessions which don't cost the pub money. And I must admit, if I go for a pint with a friend, I don't want to have to shout over a band playing stuff I don't particularly like. I never understood why landlords thought it brought people in - mostly in my opinion it does the opposite.
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Which is why big bands don't play pubs. The duo I play with gets £180 for pubs. You obviously limit the fee to the max you think a venue can pay. I did play for years with a zydeco band in pubs, which was fun but counted as a hobby not a business, although the financial loss looked good on tax returns. It broke up as we just couldn't afford to keep doing it and still eat.
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We did a house gig for a surgeon once who complained about being charge £500. I said, "Five people , four hours work here, over an hour travelling time each, that's 25 hours not counting rehearsal time, petrol, insurance and instrument costs. What would you charge for that?"
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