TheBiscuits

When did @rusty69 die? @Alan de Enfield has promised sold me pictures of that wetsuit via private messages, and whilst I am quite broad minded I am not into snuff.

I would be far more cross at them if they were usually trying to fund the support for a unique pandemic that has caught every country in the world on the hop. Can't cope with an uptick in 'flu patients in November? Bad planning, Naughty Minister. Careless Government. Most widespread pandemic since the 1918 Spanish 'Flu? Caught every other country out? No country on the planet prepared for it? Obviously it must be Maggie Thatcher's fault somehow ... She's dead. Get over it, and try and deal with the world as it is, not as you would like it to be. Have you ever considered the real difference a proper wealth tax would make to UK government coffers? A 1% flat rate property tax (annual) would go a long way to redressing the balance ...

The only way I can tell that isn't BobBiscuit talking to GrandmaBiscuit is that he calls her Nanna, not Grandma

I know a clock geek who puts the boat geeks to shame. If you need his number, drop me an email. Just make sure you have a week or so to talk clocks if it's anything interesting. I never knew mine was an 1800s Parisien design using rubies as part of the visible escapement until Stuart saw it. I do now, and the old clock my dad paid £2 for in the 1950s gets a bit more TLC than it used to!

Damn! I knew I had missed a bit ...

Would you happen to be a member of one or more of the associations that think they represent UK boating? Do you usually attack random strangers like that? Plastic tubs, not tin, and more than one, and he thinks 20mph is more like it than 2mph with a good wind behind him. His roof is very cluttered - there's a great big metal pole on it for starters, the wires will probably stay there and solar panels. There are other alternatives, but Alan will be delighted that you bit. He has been sitting under his bridge waiting for the billy goats for a week on this one.

Waste of a good pan. Veggie sossies straight on the coals and eat something else!

You did notice you are replying to a post from June 2008 I assume? There are a lot of back issues since then!

Not unusual at all. The risk is that if you get planning approval for the land but don't own it it can suddenly cost you a hell of a lot more to buy it. I know a bloke that had a chunk of land that he thought was worth maybe £50k (green belt, poor farmland) and someone offered him £500k for it, so he got suspicious and investigated. They had secured outline PP for a new housing estate on the land, following a quiet change to the local development plan. So he sold it to a developer instead for over £8 million ... It's the land value uplift clawback that stings in this sort of case. 50% of the increase in any value of the land over the next 40 years can add up to big chunk of change!

Best place for veggie sausages, but not the best place for pot. Still in Hebden, Dave?

That's probably true, and does reflect very well on the people on the forum. It is quite a lot more likely that the boaters are the ones under 70 so might need to be the ones delivering food to the more elderly landlubbers!

Oy! I *am* a young person! Well, by comparison to many on here anyway. Well maybe not that young ... I'll disguise myself as a middle aged person! That'll fool 'em.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-51900325/coronavirus-please-stay-at-home So far. Yep. Let's see how carried away they get with handing out dream powers to the police and the security services. There will be a lot of temptation to add fairly draconian powers at the whim of the Secretary of State into this "so we have them if we need them in the future" as the usual excuse goes.

Strange post to add to this thread though!

Me too. I also expect they will make it fiddly enough to do that most people won't bother for the sake of about 20p per hour of engine time on a boat they use for 2 weeks a year.

Sounds like an excellent reason to move GPs if you are CCers. Just make sure that your new GP can and will do electronic prescriptions. It depends on your prescription how long you can get but the usual advice is no more than 3 months, and many GPs prefer to only give 2 months at a time. It also depends how often your prescription changes - if it varies all the time then it's likely the GP won't prescribe too far ahead, but if you are the same tablets for years they are more likely to. Yeah, but who would be daft enough to do that ... Given the percentage of the canal network in England compared to Wales it would seem easier to have an address in England, at least for NHS purposes, especially if you are a water pikey boat without a home mooring.

No ...

Thanks for that - I wasn't aware that was the case. Scotland's not likely to be too much of an unexpected problem, as I'd need a crane and a wagon to get there, but it's worth noting about Wales.

Again, depends what's on the prescription. Some medicines are much more tightly controlled than others. It also depends on your GP - some surgeries are better than others at doing the whole electronic prescriptions thing.