[TV aerial pole mounting. How?]

On 7 January 2018 at 16:05, rusty69 said:

How about a couple of Munsen rings and a telescopic pole?

Do you mean a Munsen ring like this one?

It doesn't look very stable and keeps coming off whilst bowling

[HELP! I dropped a twig in my fuel tank!]

28 minutes ago, David Mack said:

I wouldn't worry about the loss. You can easily find another stick. 

I'm still giggling at this 20mins later

[Blowers Green]

1 hour ago, pearley said:

 I know there are facilities only just down the road at Merryhill but getting water there is a pain  in the ass. 

Are you sure you are putting your hose in the right place? 

[Morso stove riddle plate removal]

4 minutes ago, rusty69 said:

If you look closely, you can see them on a dark Knight.

Are you suggesting that Batman is Duck Footed?

[Duck repellant]

Sounds like it's time to break out the Fudd

[Cassette Toilets!!?....Not 'IF' but 'Which One'!?]

If it is only a back toilet you need why not just poop in a bucket?

[Boat Lease / Hire?]

On 5 January 2018 at 17:00, jimxtc said:

Much as I would love to pilot the boat myself, being registered blind I don't think other boat owners would be too happy to meet me coming the other way! 

Oh I don't know, it could be worse, it could be Tim West comining the other way. Now there's a scary thought

[Winter moorings question]

As a CCer I can't really see the point of a winter mooring unless you are working and just don't want the hassle of moving all winter. We need to move the boat at least once a week to top up with water and to empty cassettes, these sites have little or no facilities so you need to move the boat to get to the facilities, it's just easier for me to keep cruising if I'm going to be moving the boat weekly anyway.

[Smoke on The water]

The problem to charging up electric vehicles is quite obvious when you think about it. What you need is an electric pickup truck with an industrial diesel generator mounted on the back. You would tick all the boxes, able to comply with new electric vehicle laws, able to be charged wherever you park, and capable of doing a 400+mile journey as you can charge whilst travelling.

Can't believe you lot didn't spot that idea earlier.

[Smoke on The water]

23 minutes ago, mrsmelly said:

Yes I vividly recal watching it on live telly and in fact recording it on my reel to reel tape recorder. Very clever cold war marketing being watched by the ussr.

Although the Russians who would have been monitoring very closely have never disputed the fact. And who can dispute all those perfect photos taken on the moons surface by a man in a thick suit with a cumbersome glass domed helmet and using a camera without a viewfinder, truly top draw photography in extreme conditions.

[Smoke on The water]

8 minutes ago, Athy said:

Richard Dimbleby would have been proud of you.

It is quite obvious that pork pies grow on trees, if you take a look at the top of a pie it has a raised pattern where the stork once held it and it has a flat bottom from where it hits the ground whilst still soft. When hanging on the tree they look like brown apples.

Most pies are grown on trees, except of course pasties which grow on a pastie bush. Samosas are of course related to the Cornish pastie but are grown in a mixture of compost and curry powder.

[Smoke on The water]

1 minute ago, Flyboy said:

Yes and they did in July 1969.

In that same month NASA put in an exceptionally large order for crackers; I rest my case.

[Smoke on The water]

8 minutes ago, john6767 said:

You mean near the pork pie mines

Don't be silly, pork pies aren't mined, they are grown on pork pie trees in pig orchards and are harvested by the locals who ware pork pie hats specially designed as safety hats to deflect falling pies.

[Smoke on The water]

2 minutes ago, Athy said:

Are you cheesed off with this thread?

I have heard that there are extensive cheese fields on the Whey Navigation.

I'm sure there curdant be any left

[Smoke on The water]

This could turn out worse than fish puns

[Smoke on The water]

1 minute ago, matty40s said:

The big gorge in Cheddar

But it is now a big gorge, all the Cheddar was mined out years ago. That is why the space program was started, to check out the potential for celestial cheese mining operations.

[Smoke on The water]

Of course the moon landings were true, where do you think all the cheese come see from?

[Bored With Being A Volocky?]

1 minute ago, LadyG said:

I need to think about thar, a wall, two walls, a cana; or a HSTtrain?

Perhaps we could build a wall all the way around and get the Essexites to pay for it, if Trump can do it why can't we?

[Bored With Being A Volocky?]

4 minutes ago, Meanderingviking said:

Why sir you take it too far ........... lol 

In Essex I don't think they've heard that expression, well if they have they didn't understand it

[Bored With Being A Volocky?]

Just now, LadyG said:

I think we should build a wall round Essex. Simples.

Around the coastline or inland to cut it off from the rest of the U.K.?

[Bored With Being A Volocky?]

21 minutes ago, Meanderingviking said:

OMG I nearly spat my wine out ha ha ........

I'm sure I could have achieved that effect had i added a photo 

[Bored With Being A Volocky?]

29 minutes ago, system 4-50 said:

Are you tired as a Volocky of helping people to move, day after day? Do you hanker for something different? Do you need a job where you spend your time slowing people down? Perhaps you need to change to being a VoCussy, a volunteer Customs Officer? See the bbc website for more details.

I'm pretty sure this job will only be available to those who have been turned down for jobs as traffic wardens for being overzealous 

[London Livaboard Life in the Morning Star]

Never going to have a housing crash with an exponentially expanding population. WW3 that's about the only guaranteed way we will have more houses than people to fill them

[Bored With Being A Volocky?]

As a great deal of this experiment is taking place in Essex, no doubt there will be a VoCussy or two with a Vajazzle

[London Livaboard Life in the Morning Star]

7 hours ago, mrsmelly said:

So why not reduce your rent fifty percent? So why do you own a house? Do you consider it ok for people our ages to have bought property but people of similar ilk now adays shouldn't want to do what you and I did?

My house is in Ruislip in west London and is therefore rented out for a stupidly high sum. I could rent it out 50% cheaper but it was marketed at the going rate. My tenant has a choice, pay the going rate or live in a cheaper area; the same choice I had when I bought the house. If I had bought a house for half of what I paid for this one then I would expect to only get half the amount from renting it, and no doubt a bigger commute if I wanted to work in west London. As the saying goes "you get what you pay for"