1st ade

I suspect a pass as it's not in the list of things to check!

The poo from an elephant used regularly to transfer diesel should be more than "... good fuel for the stove"! Instant Fire-lighters would be nearer the mark!

Dave - I don't know you but I know of you. My sincere condolences. A glass will be raised.

Round two - when is it a culvert (the watertight part of the navigation is cast in a single piece of concrete??) and when is it a cut - cut and covered or otherwise?

Or a previous "clever" owner has a push to make button breaking the "energise to run" solenoid supply for the confusion of a succession of later owners...

It can indeed. And thanks for the welcome update on the financial status.

In theory, if it's a powerful transmitter and you are close - yes. The bit of kit is called an aerial... (I've heard stories of farmers up near Droitwich stringing a few yards of wire to a florescent bulb and lighting remote sheds) In practice, not really

No - see image

But when I do it says I don't have permission!

For the pedants I'll repost ([approximately] doubling the size of the original post) "I know someone who bought a brand new Ford Focus. Some days after he bought it a neighbour pointed out that the front and back number plates were different, the front one matching the tax disk. On examination by the owner, whilst the front number plate matched the logbook - the back one didn't!"

furnessvale has it.

I know someone who bought a brand new Ford Focus. Some days after he bought it a neighbour pointed out that whilst the front number plate matched the logbook - the back one didn't!

Possibly - but mainly that a model four inch head of water just won't make a six inch wide wooden gate seal properly. Magpie spent much of his childhood building model locks in our garden and I don't think any water ever went down the bywash - the lock gates leaked so much! It needed a garden hose to keep the top pound full enough for navigation and the locks, whilst great fun, were more "flash" in operation than would have been desirable in real life. Doubtless now that both of us have grown up (chronologically if not otherwise!) we could use modern materials, neoprene seals and O Rings together with some decent workmanship to get the thing vaguely watertight.

And leaks don't scale well if "model" means "smaller scale version of"!

Tony - many thanks for helping my younger brother to (once again) get his boat moving - I regret I can award only the one Greenie but if we get to meet; more substantial reward will be on offer...

Rodd's bridge - I also have pictures of the Sea Lock and Marhamchurch Incline when I work out how to get them off my phone!

I took advantage of a spare hour in Bude last week to walk from Bude Sea Lock up to the A39. I was slightly puzzled by the paddle gear on the first (non-sea) lock. The top ground paddles looked fairly conventional, albeit with a chain and wedge instead of a pawl. The bottom gate paddle had some sort of strange mechanism where the windlass sits. It appeared to be much more modern than the rest of the gear. Size converter? Ingenious anti-vandal device (on a lock that can't be reached by boat except with a trailer?)

Some years ago (but after the "thou shalt not pass on road fund to the next owner" shenanigans) I bought a car on the 30th September. Drove it home secure in the knowledge that I was "wrong" but had seen the seller post the transfer document in a post box after the last collection time - registered the vehicle to me on the 1st October. Legally wrong - yes. Morally....