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The back deck cants seem to wide to me.

My mother used to call such areas 'dogshit alley'. Its remarkable how concentrated it can be. Obviously horses have a tendency to use the same place. I guess naturally dogs do similar without training so a hotspot could be caused by a small number of animals doing the same thing every day.

It seems odd that dogs are not trained in strategic defecation location techniques. One of our lurchers was brilliant about this. She would disappear to an area where nobody normal would ever go then return having offloaded the extra weight. It was amazing. In a hedge, in a McDonalds, scrap car or whatever. I think in reality dogs could be trained for this. It could be a whole new industry. Doggie poos training. Fed up with taking bags and that warm feeling? Bring your faithfull mutt to doggie poos strategic defecation training and we'll have them crapping wherever you like. Special offer 6 sessions for the price of 8.

Definitely. However having done some research it appears these bolts usually go into the drum. I think @blackrose might have had the same unit as I did. It was a Zanussi 3kg compact 1300rpm spin. The machine did operate in that the drum was not locked but the bolts were holding the concrete counterbalance weight. Thats why it was walking all over the place. And I thought it was the Woman overloading it !

I guess the non-specifics are doing well out of fly tipping.

I had a similar problem with a Zanussi compact machine. It turned out that there are transport bolts fitted which prevent the machine being damaged during transit. I had not read the manual and thus did not know about them. I ratchet strapped it down to stop it moving about then someone told me about the bolts and it was much calmer after I removed them. Something to do with the balance weight.

I had an indesit tumble drier when I was living on the barge with the Woman and the offspring for several years on a mooring. It was alright but I did have a rule about only operating it when someone was on the Boat. I am pretty sure the fire risk is associated with people failing to clean the filter screen. RTFM. It gets blocked with light material which causes two negative outcomes. One is that the hot air can not get out of the unit so easily and the second is that there is a load of hot dry combustible material available. So yeah. Clean the filter screen regularly and be on the Boat when its running and problems go away. Tumble driers are marvellous contraptions IF you have the power. These days I am off grid with no generator so nowhere near enough power for all this sort of thing but with adequate provision I would certainly have one.

That is also possible. I wonder if humans ought to consider similar used food displays. With modern LED lighting one could make it very beautiful of an evening.

That might well be why they have been removed.

I am navigating the upstream leat for Clewer mill right now as it happens, in one of my launches. It is ironic given the amount of water running down the River that only a tiny sweetening flow is going down here. Its like mid summer. Putting hydroelectric in mills seems sensible. having said that the chanel is very badly maintained once past the Windsor acecourse marina.. Nice day for a short Boat trip.

It would be worth checking the inverter as suggested. Its not implausible that the washing machine was only used when connected to mains elastic trickery. Inverters and washing machines are uncomfortable bedfellows. I can be similar to having a hoarde of small lobsters in your bed. Definitely worth checking. Water use is relevant.

https://www.richardrobertsarchive.org.uk/stockport-advertising-archive-blog/history-of-minimax-advertising Interesting story. German company.

Nice coal store.

I don't know much about them but a relative did have 'custody' of a watermill near Godalming and I did visit. National Trust owned but they lived there. Fascinating place really. One minor detail which I liked but is probably normal with these sorts of things is that the teeth of the large cast iron gear transferring power from the waterwheel were made of wood. Apple I think it was. That was so if there mechanism jams and the waterwheel keeps turning the teeth are stripped and can be replaced later rather than a major failure. Nice. I don't remember much else. Cool place though.

If it is leaking it there might be an inspection hatch in the top needing attention. Square or rectangular steel plate with a load of bolts holding it down. Maybe if you cover that with a rubber matting you can see if the noise stops.

It was probably some agitated kid terribly scared of having to pay some inheritance tax on his dad's 3 million pound farm. Fear of destitution can make people do desperate things. To be quite fair it would be pretty awful to only get 2 million in cash when the dream was to have the farm. Living under a bridge looks pretty good in comparison. Expectation is a horrible thing. I am getting worried about when the storm with the first letter M comes along. Scary.

Some GU locks have windows in the paddles. Stockers is an example. This is to feed water down to the next pound to stop it going low. The section above Stockers lock is a river level section. There is a flood sluice half way between Stockers and Springwell (dead pound) to help control flood water in the event that Stockers lock is used more than Springwell lock and the pound goes too high. I think Aynho weir lock probably has windows.