Graham Davis
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Just because you've been cruising around the system for that time doesn't mean you know all about them. How many of the various Canal Societies have you spoken to, because it appears from your writings that you know little of the hard work they put in ALL YEAR ROUND?
And to be honest, being a "political journalist" doesn't inspire me with any confidence about your ability to "instruct" us on how the new Charity might do.
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It appears that Morrison's have implemented a national policy not to allow any fuel to be put into any cans.
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If you go on the Ashton canal, you will have your boat fire bombed, you will be mugged, your wife will get raped and your children will get sold into slavery.
Apparently...
You sure you got those in the right order?
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Like the look of that.
They are a very good company to deal with.
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Avoid Banbury(if you get that far, like the plague. Full of gangs of very aggressive chavs.
Really?
Wasn't like that when we were there last year.
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Don't hold your breath. I'd expect some threats to Daniel, perhaps a lawyer's letter and this thread disappearing
Richard
As the details of the Harp's misdemeanors have been published in the Court Papers and are therefore in the Public Domain they can't really stop it being published here.
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Tam&Di
Ever heard of tickover?? Perhaps not, it's what proper boaters use when passing moored boats
Do they?
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Agreed, Laurence.
The group that own In and Ad Hoc hold an annual meeting each year where they invariably have a canal history talk, although, unfortunately, not all of them turn up! Perhaps those that you met are some of the latter!!
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Do you suggest that on top of the possible hours tuition they get about the boat they should also have a lesson on the history of the canals as well?
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I know the boat well and I shall pass your comments on to the owners of Ad Hoc.
(They also own In Hoc!!)
I would also suggest that they were not well versed with the ways of the Northern BCN, so give them a chance.
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I would have thought that a motor home is a far greater risk than a narrow boat. It would be much easier to steal a MH when the owner is in the supermarket, for example, and it is much easier to hide a MH than a NB.
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If you have an Amateur Radio 2m licence, do you still have to do the Marine Course?
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When I was a sales rep in Brum, years ago, I used to spend lots of Friday afternoons at Frank's doing my weekly paper work. Bacon butty for lunch, sometimes a haircut from Bunny's(??) mobile barber shop and helping Frank in the yard. He always had a good story to tell! He's probably still telling them now, where-ever he passed on to!
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I don't suppose you can get a brill bacon sandwich at Lyons Boatyard on the North Stratford anymore? And no more lip from Frank for getting it wrong as you tried to moor-up (R I P)
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The ability to read and understand technical specifications, and the ability to understand where a conclusion from empirical evidence may be flawed.
As such, I am clearly better qualified than you to comment on this question.
I see; none at all.
I shall continue following the advice from the Comms Engineers of the various bodies then.
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Mayalld,
you are obviously an expert in this field. What qualification do you hold?
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Mayalld.
No-one moved more than 5 metres, since we were all at the scene of an RTC on the road between Staylittle and Dylife (look it up on Google Maps!) This is an area that is well known locally as having NO mobile coverage, for several miles in all direction. 999 was tried by several of us but didn't work, but when 112 was dialled we got a very poor but adequate reception.
Unfortunately, in the type of situations I teach about, moving to another position is often impractical or even impossible, and getting to an area that does have mobile coverage could involve some distance.
I shall continue to lecture the use of both numbers, no matter what you say. The Emergency Services have seen and heard all our lectures and have NEVER criticised or corrected the information about the number useage.
And the use of "utter crap" about me is extremely rude. You know nothing of me or the background to our lectures, but looking at past threads here this was typical of your attitude.
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Why not ask one of the suppliers directly?
And some of the cells around here are so big there is NO signal in some areas!!
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There does indeed to be discrepencies or difference between different Police/Fire/Ambulance services over their useage of either post code or map reference. Around here a post code could easily cover 40 or 50 square miles, and I'm sure the same applies in other less well populated areas, but go into the nearest town and a post code may well only include 20 houses.
As I said previously there has been a large exercise with the local Young Farmers coordinated with the Emergency Services in this area to provide all remote dwellings with their map references if they ever need to call them. I also know from our (see banner below) dealings with them we have always used the same coordinates. Certainly when I have had to deal with the Air Ambulance to a remote shout they have asked for the MR of both the incident and a landing site, if that was seperate. I also know that the County Council Emergency Response Team here also use MR's to deal with problems, as that is invariably what we are given when we are called out by them
I know that the local 999 Centre don't really care what number you ring on; they just want to know that they are needed and will respond to both.
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In which case, you have been pushing snake oil.
999 and 112 are both EQUALLY effective when it comes to making a roamed call. The suggestion that 112 will roam but 999 will not is UTTER CRAP.
I can sight you at least three examples of where 999 was tried on several phones, all showing NO signal, which got a nil response from any network, but when 112 was used connection was made. I don't know why, but it did!
On these grounds I shall ignore you usual rudeness and shall continue advising people that they should use both numbers.
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As a First Aid instructor we have been pushing the use of 112 for a while, especially in the more remote areas where "roaming" is sometimes the only way to get a signal. I have needed to use it and can confirm it does work.
Re the iPhone app; beware as this has been found not to be particualarly accurate for some reason, and certainly doesn't seem to work in very marginal signal areas. See the last couple of sentences on the link!
In Mid Wales the Ambulance and Fire Services work from OS Map references as does the Air Ambulance. Recently the Young Farmers Clubs have been issueing all out-lying residences with stickers to go by the main house phone with both their Post code and 6 figure map references. The same is also used by the Mountain Rescue Teams. In urban areas I can see the point of the Post Code because they are often very small areas, but in the country they can cover huge tracts of land.
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Alan, why is the "6 of clubs" from your link in the middle of Faversham?
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They are not barges!! Those are those nasty wide things you find on some northern canals and some rivers.
You will be in a NARROW BOAT!!2/
If you meet anyone from this forum you must enter the nearest pub and buy them a drink.
You will be in a NARROW BOAT!!
New Waterways Charity
in General Boating
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Sue,
I sit firmly on the fence a lot of the time, and don't often post on here, however the "stuff" so far mentioned by this Mr Underwood has been totally negative. If he has been in touch with so many people why didn't he say that before my query. He previously implied that volunteers couldn't be found in the winter, but I know plenty of groups that are active all year round. Now he seems to be retracting his comment; a typical journalistic trick.
Whilst we all may have some doubts about how the new Charity is going to cope and manage things, it is no good just criticising it. These negatives need to be covered by some ideas on how it is thought it should be done. All we seem to be getting from Mr Underwood is "It won't work", but what is needed is an explanation of why and how he/they think it should be done.