Mike Tee

Go to your nearest B&Q and find the dowel timber section- there will be all sorts of odd shapes in the racks for you to browse. They will also be labelled so you will know what it is called!

Looks like mould on the ceiling and in the corners so I'd guess at damp, could be condensation caused by bad insulation, but could be damp from many other reasons.

I was working in Saudi Arabia in 1976 (and not in air- conditioned splendour, outside all day), came home for leave after about 3 months working 12 hour days 7 days a week and couldn't understand what all the fuss was about the weather! Although I had been looking forward to a bit of rain.....

Straight answer to the op's question - NO

It is windowsill, not windowcill! The lock sill and windowsill are both ledges of a sort.

Do you mean Hawkesbury?

Why should they go easy?

Doesn't matter what they have factored into the price, it's worth to the buyer is what they offer. If the seller don't like it he won't accept.

Back in the late 50's early 60's my old man put together the first Babycham cocktail - it got talked about so much that some senior manager from Babycham kept pestering him for the recipe, even came in person a few times but he never revealed what was in it. Drove them crazy! He kept on selling it for years and it was a money spinner 'till something else got popular. I can still remember the recipe but would never tell! All done at The Old White Horse, High Street, Kettering.

I don't think I have had a White Sheild for about 55 years - won't now as I don't indulge in alcohol any more! My regular pint back in the 1960's was Phipps best bitter.

We are off on a mini cruise on Monday - Napton to Ashby end of navigation and back. Only 4 locks each way, so hopefully enough water!

Worthington White Shield - delish!

As far as I remember, a light and bitter was a half pint bottle of light ale poured into a pint glass and topped up with bitter - wasn't my choice of drink but I must have served thousands of them in my old man's pub!

No problem at all providing you leave at first light - whats that, about 04:30?

Not mushroom for error!

And the Inch Worm will now be known as 'twenty- five and a bit'.

30 seconds of chat is always going to be better than a 4+ hour wait at A&E and the associated long term effects!

Just under 1 litre per hour seems to be regardless of whether we have a day at normal cruising speed (and I ain't particularly slow!) or a day at tickover in lock flights or loads of moored boats - 52' trad with Petter PH2W

I remember April 1971, flying from Nigeria to Libya on a Russian airliner. I bought a beer, and being the only passenger on board, the rather lovely stewardess sat down and told me all about how the UK had just gone metric! I don't think I got a dozen words out but it was an entertaining way to pass a few hours having her talk at me. That was my introduction to the new money - still find it a bit weird talking about 'pee' instead of pennies. With hindsight I think she was just practicing her English on a captured audience.

That's not really logical, they don't even have the same gallons as we do!

Why does it have to be wired? Lots of rechargeable work lights around, many of them with magnetic bases - I keep a couple on board as standby lights, one of them goes on the stern hatch in tunnels. Very useful and if for any reason the tunnel light failed would be enough to get me out.