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  1. I'm off to Banbury today to visit Lutine and MP with (amongst other things) a fully charged battery and a set of jump leads. If / when started we'll investigate the lack of charging (I've got a 12v 6W tail light wired to croc clips - it's meant as a test light but I'm sure it'll suffice to excite the alternator if that's the only problem. Any thoughts or tips on starting with jump leads? If it was a car it's more like "jump charging"; put the leads on, leave the 'good' vehicle running for a few minutes to put some juice into the dead battery, then hit the key. I don't know if my battery has the same terminal posts as Lutine's starter battery but don't want to flatten it by putting it in parallel. Put the spare in then if (when) it starts use the jump leads to charge the original?
  2. For the first one I'd like to see a D*** Good risk analysis on what to do if there is a fire. Was moored by the Galleon in Wolverton a little while ago and there seemed to be no way out except for the front doors. (Also dark and gloomy inside but that's personal taste).
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  5. Thanks (and to MJG). Hadn't considered that angle; will do so next time. Although I suspect Ollie will follow anyone who offers a biscuit!
  6. The problem being that if you have: - Dog's name (seems wrong not to have it no matter what the law says) Your name (legal requirement) Your full address (legal requirement, four - five lines) Your mobile number (so the person who found him can ring you up and ask "you lost a dog?") The dog won't be able to annoy anyone as it won't be able to lift his head up! Ours has his name, our surname, our house number and postcode and mobile no. It identifies a unique property and neither me nor Mrs 1st Ade is going to argue whose dog it is. When he disappears at elderly fathers house five minutes after we get there we go a phone call to collect him from a neighbour. More to the point it's all that will fit on any tag we've seen for sale. And then only because both we and the dog have short names!
  7. At Marple a year or two ago the maintenance guys were demonstrating how they made the wood fit. Bolt it in place, apply paint to the leading edge and close the gate. Where the paint had been squashed out the way was a high spot, plane it down a bit and repeat. After three or four goes the wood had the profile of what it closed against whether that was the opposite mitre (bottom) or stonework (top). Obviously all done with the lock completely drained.
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  13. "Mum, mum, there's people living on this one" Visitors moorings at Ellesmere Port boat museum
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  16. You should - you grew up near there!
  17. Slightly off topic but I passed The Lady Lorraine, a conventional looking steel narrow boat, yesterday.... ...Doing about seventy on the M6 southbound - she looked well secured and stable.
  18. Our (1906) terrace house was built in an era when the use of attic space for storage was decades in the future. Loft hatches (and insulation!) were not installed and there was a brick divider about every 10-12 houses. One of our neighbours heard what he thought was rats or squirrels in his loft space. One weekend he knocked through from the landing ceiling and was surprised to find an enterprising neighbour (I won't mention his country of origin for fear of incurring the Mod's wrath) had boarded out at least four adjacent lofts and fitted the space out with mattress's, bedding and lighting. At a rough guess his three bed mid-terrace had sleeping space for forty! Needless to say, full height brick partition's followed pretty quickly for everyone.
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