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lampini

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  1. Lol Bizz! But yes, joking aside, we are a bit worried about the next time Brotherly Love (I kno!!..) comes past. That however is one of the biggest reasons we DID call the police - this guy needs to know that there are actually consequences for bad actions.. might have more effect than letting the norty child get away with it?
  2. This exactly Arthur! We are both in our 50s and pretty peaceful folks.. For myself, I will always refuse to be cowed into shivering in fear behind my curtains by a psycho bully. Others however might prefer to totally avoid, and that also is a perfectly acceptable response. My reason for "naming and shaming" is to give folks the heads-up on this nutter, forewarned is forearmed and all that.. If it were a case of "this bad thing happened and I THINK it MAY have been this boater", then I also would disagree with naming them - but it wasn't. This guy is a scary nutter.
  3. Deffo him! My issue is not so much the icebreaking in the dark, but doing it whilst obviously pissed as a parrot is an idiot thing to do.. And of course, walking back 1/4 mile, through private land just to threaten our lives on a night like that... glad you didn't say owt to him or it'd be you as well! The guy really is a psycho - main reason I have not a moments hesitation in "naming n shaming"... Hope all is good Jen - it seems thawed here now!
  4. Have chased it with the Cops, going in to make a statement tomorrow- good cos I have the flu as well and I may feel better by then! Should I also report it to C&RT? Opinions? Feel like crap, neither of us got much sleep last night...
  5. All quiet now.. will follow it up with the old bill tomorrow. OH did go out; but was trying to talk him down, I was at the stern with the tiller arm in my hand.. wot on earth I thort I was gonna do with it I dunno! Jeez... poor OH has to b up for work tomorrow... this guy has a mooring up a few bridges so I'll make sure the cops know that. Still can't get over it.. all Jon did was open the hatch and shout "oy"! He doesn't want to leave me here alone here tomorrow now.. :-(
  6. True 'nuff! He didn't chug very far - he musta moored up at bridge 5 cos he walked the 1/4 mile back down Marston lane, over the locked gate and down the private track to our boat. Banged on the roof and tried to get my very peaceful OH to fight him! I called the police and they're sending someone out - blimey - wot a nutter! still shaking....
  7. Amazing! 8:30 at night - strange glugging sounds, loud cracking noise from the thick ice surrounding our boat and an uncomfortable pitching and swaying. Out of the darkness, at full pelt comes the ironically named 'Brotherly Love' When I realised what the commotion was I leaned out the side hatch to ask him to slow down- only to receive a hurl of abuse about how he'd run out of water and I could fxxk off. Drunk as a skunk he backed up to offer further flowery threats, fisticuffs and continued his tirade. After I declined the offer he steamed off again, still ranting loudly, into the night. As I said, amazing...
  8. We bought a high quality Bluetooth speaker and just use our phones.. even in crap signal areas I can pick up radio 4 by hanging the phone in a porthole! Wonderfully simple.. also the OH uses Spotify as he's seriously into his music.. we are on 3 sim only - 30GB each per month.. plenty enough and the signal is usually good enough to stream video too. The Bluetooth speaker plugs into or Bluetooths from all our gadgets and is really good quality. Cheap and reliable.. 8+hours from one charge on the inverter..
  9. iirc the bit after bosworth Marina is an SSSI, there are signs saying "do not empty grey water" or summink.. only for a mile or so tho....
  10. In-line rcds are available, use at power source. swop 13a for 16a ceeform where exposed to the elements/damp environment. Best be safe!
  11. + 1 about the blue - we used that as an excuse as to why we had to go through the little tunnel once!
  12. Thanks Dave - always good for a bit of advice, you are! We shall head for the Polesworth end as we will be orf again on Monday in that direction... one day I will make you that (from the bean) coffee or buy you that pint! :-) And quite rightly so!! We did that until a sharp bend + 70'er + low hanging willow + inexperience robbed us of our stern line somewhere round Great Haywood! It was a rubbish line anyway.... now ours is on a reachable hook near the tiller....
  13. We have managed to wangle a week off from respective jobs over 26th Aug to 3rd Sept.. last time we went south and made it to Napton, had a great time notwithstanding our domestic alternator packing up! This time we want to head north towards Rugely and beyond if poss - we brought the boat down from Gt Haywood last spring as total newbies and loved it! We've done the Ashby loads and love it but are reserving the Shackerstone festival until next year.. Ive realised that by going that way (towards Rougely) we will go through Alvecote during the festival there, but we may not arrive until the Sunday. Anyone here got experience of mooring, likely congestion etc? I quite fancy stopping for the Sunday night! We are reasonably fit and can walk back a fair bit to the Festival if needs be - or will it be totally rammo with boats? Cheers all - can't wait to slip our moorings and do some chugging! Also, will there be much school holiday business still? jane x
  14. lampini

    FENDERS

    Those shops which sell mobility scooters tend to have a pile of old tyres out the back that they're only too happy to get rid of..... an eye bolt through the top makes it neater..
  15. Ooo that were you! You don't arf get around! This is Bulkington mate - the local cats and children would be more likely to terrorise YOU!! :-0
  16. Nope - I'd deal with it as I delt with the last one... who, believe me, needed no invite on a sign! there is no gate lock.. then id clear up your cans of Special Brew.. (Oh, that wasn't actually you - was it?!) :-)
  17. Lol... good for you - we just laugh and imagine moorers in yellow tabards and speed guns! Hear hear! Sadly our private mooring landowners looked horrified when I suggested this.. :-( How very sensible.. they'd never go for it!
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  19. We used one of these - works fine! Got our horn repaired only to find out it was pants anyway.... this'll do till I can be arsed to swop it out for one you can hear 57 foot away! http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/PUMP-ACTION-AIR-HORN-HAND-HELD-FOOTBALL-FESTIVAL-LOUD-Never-Runs-Out-/322282696344?hash=item4b098bae98%3Ag%3AZtcAAOSwzaJX87op&_trkparms=pageci%3A62353716-63e3-11e7-84fb-74dbd1808cb0%7Cparentrq%3A22709b3815d0aa46b6e6e450ffedfa96%7Ciid%3A10
  20. So happy for you :-) hope you love it as much as we do!
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  22. We've been living aboard for a year now - our only regret is that we didn't do it sooner! BUT - and it's a big BUT - we did a shed-load of research first. I also started off wanting to CC; but a few reads on here and on lots of FB groups quickly made it obvious that holding down a job AND cc-ing would be too exhausting! We started off in a marina for a few months until we lucked out and got the most excellent on line mooring on the Ashby (imho!). Get the right boat, get a mooring or a darn good cc-ing plan. To do this I'm afraid you're going to have to do a fair bit of reading!
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