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5 hours ago, dmr said:
The K&A has lost two of its best boaters pubs in the last year or so, the Cross Keys at Bedwyn and the famous Barge Inn at Honey Street, both at the hands of the same "property developer". In both cases locals are fighting a battle to get them back but the evil property developer has sold one back to himself with a "must never be a pub again" covenant introduced.
Ironically though if the locals used the pubs more in the first place they would still be viable businesses and therefore not sold to developers. Too little to late perhaps?
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19 hours ago, Matt&Jo said:
Hi all,
Bit of a shout out to alllllll that are willing live aboard boaters to ask 1 simple question.....does size really matter????? How long is your vessel and how many on the boat...is it enough and how small is 2 small in general terms....57ft?
Any info would be grand.
If you are planning to have a boat built then it depends on how you design the interior layout. If you are planning to buy a used boat then you need to take a good look to decide if the layout works for you. We could probably live on a 57ft boat but I would miss the extra space our 70footer has, even for simple things like having room to stand the clothes horse on laundry days in wet weather
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2 hours ago, Sea Dog said:
Look, I've just told you I'm Bewildered. Maybe you're Sea Dog? Or just think you are - that might be a symptom of paranoia...
Surely that would be a symptom of schizophrenia? Sorry didn't mean to call you Shirley and add to someone else's schizophrenia problems.
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1 minute ago, Sea Dog said:
Now I'm really getting Bewildered
You are not getting me 'cos I'm going to run away and hide
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1 minute ago, Sea Dog said:
And anyway the solar won't work under bridges or in tunnels so it's a win-win!
Must write to CRT and suggest lights be fitted under bridges and in tunnels so my solar panels will work
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1 hour ago, reg said:
I am enjoying the fact that two people named Bewildered and BruceinSanity are discussing paranoia.
Now I'm really getting paranoid, people are talking about me talking about paranoia
probably talking behind my back also
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I'm planning to upgrade my panels this year. My plan is simply to build a couple of low roof boxes out of decking boards to mount the panels on. The boxes will have a plywood lid hinged on one side and the panels will be mounted to the ply and hinged on the opposite side.
Tilting in both directions with a lot less faffing about than the design in the video with the added bonus of more storage space for logs and coal. Ok so roof boxes make some bridges and tunnels impossible to pass but I can simple just not go to those places.
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4 hours ago, Sea Dog said:
Do you imagine for a moment that, just because you're paranoid, the buggers aren't still out to get you?
You know about them too, it's not just my imagination, they really are out to get me;
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2 hours ago, Jonkx said:
I seem to be slowly transitioning from just accepting these things happen and that's life to getting slightly annoyed. It's the inconvenience of it all, and having to go to and forth getting new batteries, lost weekends etc.
You also have the added concern that whoever nicked your batteries knows you will be replacing them with brand spanking new ones, and may well have clocked which direction you have moved the boat in. Or is that just my paranoia kicking in?
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Last year I moored in the short pound above Bates boatyard and woke up on the bottom due to leaky lock gates. I think they may have fixed the leak now but I suppose you could moor in a short pound and accidentally leave a paddle up overnight
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14 hours ago, Cheshire cat said:
I was going to say wack it on Ebay as rare!
We had a copy of Harry Potter with a chapter duplicated and my wife took it back to the shop. I couldn't believe it.
Sounds like someone used the Gemino charm on that chapter, every time you touch it, it will multiplying but the copies are worthless. Just be thankful they didn't use the Flagrante charm as well
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I didn't realise that phone signal boosters were illegal as they seem to be available for sale in the uk
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I did try to use the search feature to find this topic but gave up as it seems to have been updated into a useless pile of crap. If I wanted to do a goggle search I would have used google.
My phone is on EE my partners phone is on Vodaphone and while cruising we have usually had coverage on one or both phones, we have now taken a mooring in a weak signal area. Hanging the phones in a plastic bag by a window seems to be the only way to get a signal and a pretty poor signal at that.
I tried downloading an app to find the best signal, thinking it would scan all service providers and I could then switch to the best one. But it only pointed me towards the nearest EE tower. So that was a waste of time.
So does anyone have experience of phone signal boosters? Are they any good? Will they boost signals for more than one network at a time or do we need to both be on the same network? ( can we both use the one unit for Vodaphone and EE?) I suspect that during the set up they get locked to one service provider but I hope to be pleasantly surprised.
i've seen some online that look like they run on 12v from a mains transformer as they sell a car kit that just has a cigarette socket adapter and mag mount antenna. What would be the power consumption for a unit like this that would be switched on 24/7?
And finally, any recommendations of units that are proven to work well? Links would be appreciated.
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As Mike quite rightly pointed out, if the price for exactly the same product varies wildly then it becomes a matter of whether or not the extra cost covers the customer service and support. Do you want to buy a high cost, potentially expensive item from a company that sells it and offers no support whatsoever after sale or do you want a company that will go to great lengths to help you out?
of course you need to beware of companies that sell high and still offer no support, so perhaps some research into company reputation is called for, the extra sales cost may be well worth the higher price.
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When we broke down last year we called CRT and explained the situation saying how long we thought repairs would take and were told to give them a call if this changed, when the allotted time came and were were still broken down we just called to extend the estimated repair time. In total we were broken down for 2 months. As long as you keep CRT informed as to the situation they are very reasonable to deal with.
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6 minutes ago, mrsmelly said:
Very true. You also get Joe Public saying rubbish like " I can buy that for less than a quid at Tescos!! Well go and sit in the aisle at Tescos says I. Many people have absolutely no idea where the money comes from to pay large running costs and wages for the owners/managers etc who aren't there working all day for the good of their health, many of these same people of course earn more than the bloke in the pub serving them does but that doesn't count
It is also the rediculous changes that Margret Thatcher made to the busines rates system that is still crippling the pub trade.
i wouldn't mind but buying tinned beer is a false economy, if I go to the pub and have 6 pints I will be quite merry after 8 I will be well on my way to a blissful night, but on tinned beer I can polish off a case of 12 without even feeling a tingle (that isn't a euphemism
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It is always sad when a pub that survived hundreds of years closes down, it is the price they are forced to sell the beer at that is the problem.
When I was 19 the price of a pint in suburban West London had just reached a pound a pint, at that time a case of 24 takeaway beers was around £20.
30 years or so later a pint in a pub is 3-4 possibly even five times the price whereas the case of 24 Beers can be bought in a supermarket for £10-£15 half to three quarters what it was 3 decades ago.
I'm not saying pub prices are too high by inflationary standards but the supermarket beer is so cheap that no one bothers to go out for a pint these days.
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No idea, but 2G on a phone is a slower internet connection the 3G or 4G
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4 minutes ago, Athy said:
What is a "3G surface"?
I think it is the same as a 2G surface but with faster speeds and less buffering
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1 minute ago, rusty69 said:
Do you remember to squirt some ecover washing up-liquid on top?
Nah I just try to accidentally drop them in just after having a shower or washing up
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My mooring lines are pretty much self cleaning, I drop them in the cut at least once a week and sometimes even on a daily basis
2 minutes ago, rusty69 said:Usually clean mine in the river when they fall in.
Fool proof system
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12 minutes ago, mrsmelly said:
Blimey Tony if I did that she would still find out as I obviously don't know how to operate a washing machine!! You will be telling me you use a windlass next!!
Men are not supposed to use a windlass, the clue is in the name "wind" "lass", it's more of an instruction than a name
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2 minutes ago, Mike the Boilerman said:
You have me lost now. It will be available in all three types. You've posted a photo of a Type C which looks completely different in detail, from the photo!
The make is Proteus and the part code 21016/3 can be clearly seen in the photo. I can only assume they changed the design.
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According to CEF it's a type C https://www.cef.co.uk/catalogue/products/1488825-16a-dp-10ka-type-c-mcb?q=21016%2F3
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March of the Widebeams
in General Boating
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To be fair Allen's lock has a rather tight bridge hole set at a stupid angle to the main channel with a fast flowing by wash cleverly placed a few yards in front of the bridge hole. Even experienced boaters can have trouble with this bridge.
What worries me is when chunks are missing from bridges that are plenty wide enough and not on bends, how the hell people still manage to hit them is a complete mystery.