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my poor use of english. Figured "that set on fire" didn't mean "was set on fire"

It was apparently a visiting plastic boat that set on fire which then spread

You clearly didn't know what a whispergen was, neither did I. Peter's claim that he's self sufficient is correct/true - sounds like the whispergen is non-essential and occasionally used as a supplementary piece of equip Anyway, moving on. So 16 pages, we can still burn coal, but the sale of horrid coal is likely to be banned, it's 2020...it's about time. The purpose is clear to do with emissions and hard to argue with.

From the Peak and never used or noticed the inexplicable "Upper"

Never said they did, the post I was responding to said that they cost £60k, which some of them do, but others don't. Personally the most I've ever spent is £5k on my mini. In the current fleet I have the Van: 1.4k, MG: 0.7k, BSA: 2.5k. The lass however just bought a car for £22k, which is probably close to the actual average spent on cars here. Second hand average price being ~13k and new price being £33k. So I'd argue that 'ordinary folk' would be average and as such they do have ~25k to spend on a car. I'm personally not a fan of symbolism or acronyms , however googling VAWT quickly told me what it was

The new Model 3 is quite a bit cheaper at 38k. You can also pick up used model S cars second hand for ~25k which have the free supercharging thingi

There's some spots in MK near the Boat pub!!!

In reference to the water from storm Desmond: "...research at the time indicated that given that succession of storms, dredged rivers in Somerset wouldn’t have prevented the floods" Taken from the Chartered Institute of Water and Environmental Management, as @peterboat seems to think EA are lying about the effect of dredging to get out of spending a few quid. Dredging will help in some instances, but it's not the one stop solution.

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Sorry, here's the link, couldn't think where it was earlier. @Dr Bob you're right, the key bit of the question is how much water causes the flood. he images show many many litres spread across land, a bit of dredging isn't going to make much of a dent in that

Dredging will not make a significant difference. There a link to a report explaining why in the other thread.

I've a morco 11E (but it's 240v) I think. It's been flawless - other than a spider making a nest in the middle of a key pressure measurement sensor. Mine works to the point that I can use mixer taps (e.g. shower) with effect; some others have said that this hasn't worked on theirs I think - may be wrong

Yep, this is what I use (I have a 240V one). Never think about hot water, just switch the tap on and there it is

As described the bloke that came knocking sounds like a right pillock. However, I'd certainly feel bad about smoking out houses. I'd either change fuel upon realising or offer to move as soon as I were able.

Well, burning heather certainly isn't part of the solution, but yes I take your point that the loss of tree's is worse. Still they ain't going to plant woods / forests on their estates if they won't even stop burning heather for 'the greater good'

An example of the estate owners not doing what they should to (among other things) protect people from flooding. Their insistence on burning simply to keep a 'sport' of shooting birds alive and 'well stocked' is maddening in this day n age https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/20/grouse-moors-owners-threaten-government-with-legal-action I imagine they are pleased that Joe public thinks dredging will help so that there's no attention on them

I'm gonna guess it will be + 18 months

@Mad Harold See above posts

That rule exists across the whole system: They've divided the whole system into lengths and the rule they enforce is that you must shuffle from one km to a different km every 14 days (at least) and that you must have a total end to end of 32 of these kms in your 12 month period. Though the rule isn't law, it does seem to keep folks moving about This is off topic, sorry

Yes they did, have a read of the thread. This thread has been an exercise in education on the current regulations. I don't think anyone has condoned the idea of putting waste into the canal. However, yes if you choose to do so there's no law against it (assuming no local bye-laws).

I wouldn't have thought dredging would have significant impact on flood prevention. You're dredging a narrow channel, so you'd have to do it bloody deep to impact the volume that's been flowing against the defenses / outer banks lately

To form a balanced argument. I suggest everyone doesn't, it would be minging and would cost money to to make into a law.

Yes that's what I understood. So if you research of local bye-laws and find nothing forbidding it, you can discharge sewage into the canal. But, please don't!!!

cheers for feeding back folks

I think the point of Alan's work was to show that it's actually 'permitted' (it's not against the law) in any waterway; unless I've miss-understood the posts