BruceinSanity

Can you wrap the weep with self-amalg tape?

We cc’ed for nearly 7 years and extended cruised for as long again with pump outs, including three very cold winters and never had a problem. Toilets are entirely a matter of personal preference, you can make arguments for and against any of the systems. We did have a pump out kit which came in handy just a few times in all those years. A standby porta potti tucked away and brought out in emergency is also good.

Thanks Rich, always good to know the backstory.

No, cuthound was right, I was thinking of Edwin, so it was a little outpost of Motown. Brilliant place complete with secret stairway leading to the crenellated roof.

Yes, you’re right of course. Comes of posting quickly first thing. I blame the drugs...

That is superb, what a challenge! Nor even an internal toilet, but has power so could put an incinerator in. Don’t know what prices are like round there, high, I guess, but £150k seems a bit steep given how much you’d have to spend on it and still not have vehicle access. Havent seen a canalside property that excited me so much since Freddie Starr’s place at Polesworth.

No, there’s an important difference. CRT say a range of less than 20 miles is unlikely to satisfy them, not the same thing at all.

Duw! You don’t need to buy a whole new boat just because the old one won’t start!

Isn’t it an offence under the Wildlife and Countryside Act?

I recall a hotel manager agreeing vehemently with this. She said there were some guests who started working on getting a discount when they checked out from the moment they checked in.

Sounds like a good result, nice one. Shows the value of giving feedback.

Botterham is on the Staffs and Worcs.

Since I can’t see a scenario in which w3w has complete dominance of geolocation services, this seems to me to be the answer to ivan&alice’s objections. I too resolutely avoid facesquid and I believe that sooner or later legislation will emerge to restrict their growing monopoly.

If there’s still a WRG compound at the festival, you could try going there and asking nicely if someone could give you some advice. Certainly in my day there would always be a few wrgies about with expertise with boat and vehicle mechanics. If someone from there can sort you out, a donation of cash to the WRG funds and/or cans to the wrgies would be appropriate.

Like you, my approach is to pick this apart systematically, thinking of the way my former Occ Psych colleagues would approach it. First off, selection. What screening takes place to identify the little hitlers? People volunteer for lots of reasons, sometimes on the advice of their counsellors, and whilst that’s not automatically a bad thing, it may point to a need for closer supervision. Secondly, training. We’ve been given assurances about the content of training, but what about trainer training and supervision of the training process? I’ve been a Scout leader trainer in my time and I’m well aware of the impact of the trainer’s attitudes and approach on the kind of issues we’ve been discussing even with the most closely specified and carefully designed programme. Finally, ongoing supervision, refresher training and remedial training. I suspect that this is the really weak part of the system. We’ve heard of some cases where complaints have resulted in an undertaking to give advice or further training to a volunteer, but it shouldn’t be left to this sort of reactive response. There should be a programme of regular review of the vollies, especially when they are working in a team and there’s scope for echo chambers to form and encourage undesirable working practices, as seems to have happened in the Bosley case. Managing volunteers is very different to managing employed staff. There are far fewer sanctions available to the manager and it takes a very high standard of person to person skills to avoid some very difficult situations at times.

Thanks for that. Wouldn’t it be nice if all batteries were labelled with that code, would simplify the situation and avoid having to grovel around trying to measure up the old one in situ.

Can I ask a related question to this? Checking out my options for a replacement start battery recently, some of them are described by three numbers or a pair of same such as 643/644. Do these relate to the size of the case and orientation of the terminal posts?

Indeed, and thanks too for the warning.

Thought you were going to repeat Eric Morecambe’s gag about his Uncle Henry being killed by too much white bread... He came out of the pub, stepped into the road and a baker’s van ran him over.

This is very similar to the situation in Mercia which has 260 residential berths in a total of over 600 berths. The whole marina is a composite hereditament paying one Band H council tax charge. The mooring fee for residential berths is (I think) £150 higher than the equivalent leisure fee, covering both a contribution to CT and the extra costs of a residential berth such as post handling facilities and extra rubbish disposal and water supply costs.

You can just get 14’ through, but the options for cruising are pretty limited anyway. Turning right you could get to Horninglow but Dallow Lane just after that is narrow. Turning left and you can lock down to Sawley and so onto the Trent, but AIUI, there are some pretty tight pinch points before you get there. Almost all these boats either stay in the marina as floating apartments or are craned out and taken away.